Wartime
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Townsend Road air raid shelter
Read moreIn the early months of the war, the government issued two million Anderson shelters to homes in cities likely to be bombed. They were issued free to those earning less […]
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A Chesham Man at War – the Story of WJ Dell
Read moreThis is the account of the war of WJ Dell, a Pednor resident, aged 14, when war broke out. I was 14 when war broke out in 1939 and weighed […]
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Memories of Chesham in the 1930s and 1940s
Read moreMy happiest days that I remember were from 1936 to 1939. I lived at 8 Market Square, where my father had a furniture and general store, later a men’s outfitters. […]
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Kath Dolling (nee Smith) and evacuation
Read moreTHE wail of air-raid sirens over Penge, South-East London on Sunday 3rd September 1939 dramatically changed the life of eight-year-old Kathie Smith. She had lived as a shy, only child, […]
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My War 1944
Read moreThe following extract is from a letter written to Home on the Normandy Beach Heads, by myself M A Sabatini, Royal Navy Leading Ship’s Mechanic, which was never sent. It […]
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Memories of a wartime childhood
Read moreI was born before the Second World War, in July 1939. I don’t remember very much until I was about 3. From then on I was aware that the sound […]