Posts Tagged: gas masks

Wartime memories of living in Tavistock Avenue

Posted by & filed under Oral history, Places and spaces, Post World War 2, Valerie Goodyear-Burrow, World War 2.

Val Goodyear-Burrow was born in 1938. She lived at 79 Tavistock Avenue during the war years and can recall specific memories of wartime: shelters, blackouts, gas masks and air-raid sirens. She also remembers watching the gliders coming from the Handley… More about ‘Wartime memories of living in Tavistock Avenue’»

Childhood memories of living in the war years – Gloria Morris

Posted by & filed under Gloria Morris, Life and leisure, Ryder's Seed Merchants, Streets, Work, World War 2.

Gloria Morris has many vivid memories of what life was like on the home front during World war II. She remembers her mother having to do war work at Ryders’ Seed merchants; gas masks; the different kinds of ration books;… More about ‘Childhood memories of living in the war years – Gloria Morris’»