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- Tags: home front
City fire guard certificate and Defence Medal
Tags: civil defence; home front
Maurice Stimpson's Father Training a Land Girl
Parkfield Lodge is at Headstone Lane and the entrance to the lane that ran down to the house is just opposite the Headstone Lane…
Tags: animal; home front
Interview with Barbara Bulleyment
Interview with Rob Carter
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Dennis Kirk. Two
Interview with Gordon Atkinson
Interview with Don Sutherland. One
Tags: faith; home front
Interview with Don Sutherland. Two
Interview with Sidney and Una Ellis
Interview with Laura Hickey
Interview with Jan Albone
Their farm was close to RAF Kirton in Lindsey which was used as a rest home for men from the Battle of Britain. They worked on…
Interview with Keith Toule
Interview with Patricia Cook
Tags: animal; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his…
Interview with Gwendoline Thickett
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Gino Muratori
Interview with Benito Colonna
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Mick Kettleborough
Interview with Nancy Titman
Tags: bombing; evacuation; home front; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Joan Smith
Interview with Sydney Smith
Sydney lived a few miles from London and attended Byron Court School in Webley. She was five when…
Interview with Maureen and Sidney Stevens
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; control tower; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigsley; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Eileen Widdowson
Interview with Frank Edwards
Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-weapon