"Olive green on the outside, creamy wool inside, it’s not a new jacket."
A snapshot of life on the Home Front
"Are you one of the many thousands of Hertfordshire primary school children who enjoyed a four-night trip to Cuffley Camp?"
"This is a tale about family, holidays and love in all its many shapes and forms."
George Moss dedicated these almshouses to the memory of his mother, Frances, who had died in 1838, 66 years previously, ...
Alms Lane in Ashwell was not always known by that name; an 1877 map shows it was formerly Pickings Lane. ...
"The Catholics ruined my taste for fish and I’ve never really been able to eat it since, and I’m a Pisces."
"What was a little strange though was coming down to breakfast the next morning and sitting with Lillian’s parents, with all of us knowing exactly what had transpired."
"Thus the NAAFI became the Holy Grail, and I’m sure went a long way to perhaps saving my life!"
"learning the rules not to refuse"
"the others were suspicious of my britishness"
In the early stages of the war there was little problem with recruitment. On the outbreak of war in August ...