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All the stories below have either been collected from CSV volunteers, or are input directly from those who have listened to the call to action on air, to "tell your WW2 story"

Stories contributed by Lancshomeguard

A Teenager's Recollections of the Second World War
A Teenager's Recollection of the Second World War Part 2; The April Fool's Day Tradition
A Teenager's Recollections part 3...A Christmas Tradition
A Teenager's Recollections part 4...A Mock Wedding
A Teenager's Recollections part 5..The "Bristol Big Bands"
Joining Up Disaster
East End Horror
Pre-Fabricated Estate in Huncoat
Someone Watching Over Me
'Edith' - The Evacuee
A Little Boy's Memories of World War 2
In the Care of Angels
The Grenadier Guards 6th Batallion Remembered
Muriel, I've been here before!
We Had Heartache - but We Came Through
A Joyful Awakening
George Townson's Wartime Diary, C.1942
George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part II
George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part III
George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part IV
War Work in Bolton
Professor Two Thou
Bofors Guns and Blue Suede Shoes
Gas Masks
Sailing With The Convoy
Uniforms with a Difference
COs
Lions in the street
My Father's Feet Saved His Life
When a bomb dropped on Clayton le Moors
FLYING BOMB
Harrogate's Only Bomb
Civilian Caualities
Blackpool Evacuees
Childhood Memories
Ambulance Service
Fish Tanks and German Planes
Fun in the Employment Exchange
Anderson Shelter and the WAAF
RAF Electrician
A Wartime Memory from Bacup
A Night to Remember
Non-Stop Bombing
A Letter to Frank Nolan
Wartime Kirkham
A Little Light Music...
Teamwork in the Middle of the Ocean
George Townson's Wartime Diary C.1942 Part V
Brothers at War
Military Nursing
Lucky Lads
Armed Guards in the School Yard
Mary Gray's Wartime
Mrs Ward's War
Harold Clayton's War
Peter Haworth's War
Joan Dickinson's War
Joyce Manifold's War
Life on the Land
A Quiet War
Nursing on Tyneside
Cycling/Convoys
Jean's Memories
A Love Story
On the Farm
Black Market on the Farm
Carbide Lamps and Farmwork
Peg's Story
Bombs over Chorley
ELSIE EDGE'S STORY
Daisy Mason's War
Betty Dinsdale's War
Jean Claughton's War
Childhood Memories in Bolton
Bomb over Stubbins
Joyce's Memories
My Church in the Blackout
War and Peace
From Farm Boy, to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey
From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART II
From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART III
From Farm Boy to Soldier, to Prisoner of War; the Memoirs of Alf Davey PART IV
Elizabeth Nolan's Wartime Memories
Changing Everday Life in WW2
Japanese Prisoner of war.
Deaf as a Post.
'Propaganda'
Land Army Girl and ATS
Radar Mechanic 225826
A Lifetime in the Navy
Raids on the East Coast
Betty Hughes' War
Olga Gore's War
Jean Preedy's War
Joan Singleton's War
Dorothy Painter's War
Joan Lewis' Story
Barbed Wire on the Beach
Childhood Memories
The Blackout
Gena's Story
War in Coventry 1941
Margaret's War
JOAN'S WAR
Ken's War Memories
Marlene's War Memories
TONCHAN POW CAMP, THAILAND
Wartime Schooldays
The Army at Sixteen
Marjorie Denton's War
A Bevin Boy
Lily's Story
Janina's Story
Evacuating London
Billy Barker's War
Unusual Evacuees
'Mountain Ash' Memories
The Milk Van
In the Cellar
The Bombing of Number Two Clifford Street
Jack Place's War-Part1
Jack Place's War - Part 2
Hello Africa
Escape from Warsaw
Intack Farm
Hello Africa
My first taste of Chocolate!
Bombing at Levens
Mussolini's Last Moments
Everyday Life in Rochdale
Son of a Soldier
Thomas (Tiger) Harrison's War
Doris's War Memories
Trams in Trawden
Anecdotes of WW2 by a Very Ordinary Person
The War Years 39 — 45
Frank Richardson's War
Constance Perrin's Air Raid memories
Betty Fearn's Wartime
Dorothy Davies wartime
May Bullock's War
Under the Table
Gerald Green's Wartime Childhood
Kathleen Green's Wartime Childhood
Nancy Sunter's Countryside War
Val Potter's Wartime Memories
Val Potter's Wartime Memories
Mrs Wilkinson's Story
Evacuees
Bombs on Bristol
Wartime Memories of Ure Jones
Muriel Edwards' Memories
Jean Chalmers' War
Alice Lindsay's Memories
Childhood in Liverpool
Liverpool Blitz
Soldiers on Pendle Hill
A Happy Child's War
Early War Memories
Alice's War Memories
Annie Jackson's War
Jack Parkinson's War
Sidney Cox's War
A Lucky Escape
Irene Porter's War
Elsie Barker's War
Edna Jackson's Wartime
Captain Taylor's War
Long Hours Working in Munitions
Singing in the School Shelter
A Bullet to the Chest
Very Early War Memories
Pat Crank's War Memories
They Bombed our House.
Memories of World war Two.
Hilda and Irene's Wartime Memories
My Childhood Memories of World war Two
Lillie Goodall's War
Sandbags and Cigarette Cards
Mary Egerton's War
Bill Henderson's War
Mary Meehan's War
The Beginning - Part One.
The Beginning - Part Two
Teenage Years
Irene Hardman's War
Frank Greensitt's War
Alice Seed's War
Mary Bairstow's War
Nellie LeFeuvre's War
Annie Hughe's War
Edith Kane's War
Bombed Out in Coventry
Ruby Watkin's War
Kent Village 1941
Margaret Elliott's War
The Beginning - Part Three.
A Terrifying Incident
Anthony Bryant's War
John C. Larkin's War
A Fairly Quiet War
Laura Grimes' War
Mine sweeping the Channel
Patricia Collins' War
Annie and Eva's War
Dora Barlow's War
Doris Springhall's War
Anna's War
Muriel Booth's story
First Audience
Winifred Evans' War
Keith Warrens' War
Reflections of a Small Boy
Essentials Rationed
Life in the NAAFI
Kathleen Yearsley' War
Life in the Wrens
Mary Schofield's War
George Salkeld's Memories
Nursing in Withington
Roger Rawlinson's War
Freda Willis' War
William George Lofts' War
Land Army Girl with the Forestry Commision
Memories of 'D' Day and Beyond
Hitchhiking
Harry Smiths Story
Raving Lunatics
Ernie Holtbys War
Survival
Marriage and Malaria
Bodies in Burma
Remember When: My Memories of my 21st Year
Our Family
Sweet Coupons and Gas Masks
Audrey Clegg's Story
Betty Taylor's Story
Working for the Glamorgan War Agricultural Executive Committee
Brenda Jones' Story
Sweet Smell of Chocolate
Daft Enough to Join Up
Bike and Hikes
'Jungle Wireless'.
.Memories of 'D' Day, and Beyond'.
Elsie Aldcroft's Story
'A Conscript's Story'.
Gordon Foster's Story
Doreen Blackburn's Story
Kathleen Cockcroft's Story
'From Blitz to Burma'
Johnny Stinger's Story
Veronica Parker's Story
Ernest Downing's Story
Alan Belsher's Story
Hammocks at Dawn
Olive Ball's Story
Max Walmsley's War
Cyril Ellis's War
Walter McKinlay's War
Hannah Whitehead's Story
Greta Edmundson's Story
Nina Oldfield's Story
Evelyn Haslam's Story
Muriel Minto's Story
Dorothy Joblings' Story
Arthur Waters Story
Hello Africa Part 2
How I got The Aircrew over Europe Star
Being Bombed in Stockport
Return to Burma
Wallace Ivor Jones 's War
The 1939 Gold Rush
Ambulance Duty in Liverpool
Lilian Roger's Story
Leonard Ball's story
Eric Harding's War
Bill Houldgreave's War
Dorothy Dyson's Story
Churchill's Secret Weapon
Brians Scotts Story
Jane Guest's Story
George Brocklehurst's Story
Frederick Seaby's War
A Prisoner of War's Diary -Part 1
A Prisoner of War's Diary -Part 2
A Prisoner of War's Diary -Part 3
A Prisoner of War's Diary -Part 4
A Prisoner of War's Diary -Part 5
A Prisoner of War's Diary -Part 6
Betty Carrington's War
Captain Paddy Vincent's War
Molly Makepeace's War
Alan Smeeton's War
A G.I. Picked the Wrong Man
Falling Foul of Wartime Regulations
Douglas Robb's War
First Casualty of the Sheffield Blitz
Harry's War Stuck up the Yangtse
Kenneth Clayton's War
Con Nicholson's War
William Mason's War
Memories of a Young Child During the War
Dad’s New Painting Trick
The Dark Nights of War
Albert Haslam's Story
Winifred Russell's Story
Jack Booth's Story
MEMORIES
THE WAR IS OVER - LET'S CELEBRATE
Nell Chappelle's Story
'A Jaunt in the Desert'
'From Desert to Jungle'.
'An Experience not to be Missed
'Escape From Dunkirk'
'Sealion'
'Keeping the Forces Mobile'
'My Valentine Cake'.
Violet Bennett's Story
Violet Fallowes' Story
Abandoning their Post
Daphne Bradley's Story
Thelma Westell's Story
Mary Wickham's Story
Jack Peet's War
Eric Felsted's Story
Bill Childs' War
William Whitehead's War
Catharine Pugh Story
Enham El Alamein
Ernest Croysdill's Story
Ada Croysdill's Story
Growing up during the War
Memories of the Land Army
Childhood War Memories
Return to Accrington
Elsie's Childhood Recollections
Canada for the Duration of the War
Captain Post's Wartime
Richard Wilson's Story
Joan Stable's story
Ethel Morris' Wartime
Mrs Liz Williams' Wartime
Mrs Flo Conley's War
Mrs Holden's War
John Nield's War
Mrs Melling's Wartime
Jean Cheetham's War
'The Ten Foot Drop'.
John Rowlett's War
'Down The Line'
'A Boy Doing a Man's Job'
'Escape On A Door
Salerno Landings
Deryk Bailey's story
'Quaint Speaking Englishmen'
'Guarding the Ammo'.
'I had my Obituary in the National Press
War Time Honeymoon in Blackpool
'I Left My Leg in Italy'.
'Singing For ENSA'.
Singing for Eggs!
Bad News Telegraph Boy
Machine Gunned in Oxford Road, Manchester
Mine Roping
Taxi Escape
Josie’s Escape
“Washer” Woman
Home on the Farm
Welcoming the Yanks
Bristol Lit Up By Bombs
Piano and Cucumbers
V E Day joy in Wigan
A Near Miss
Chocolate Temptation
Crater Baby
Cuddington Turkey Shoot
Eggsaggerate!
German Balloonist — Mystery Solved
Harry Berry’s Far East PoW Diaries found and published
I Stole Monty’s Bus
Lost Balloon
My First Foreigner
Patsy’s Slipper
Scappa Marine
Sewing for Victory
Shelter Memories
Sweets for Biscuits
The First Barrel’s For Grandma!
Walking through the Blitz
What the Blazes, no Water?
Anne Scally's Story - Home is where the heart is
"They forgot to tell me that war had been declared"
"Doing our bit for the War effort"
The entertainers
A Child's memories of wartime in Blackburn
Bootle 1941
Shrapnel
Coventry 1941
Nell Taylor's Memory
Edna Hastings'Wartime
Avril Dorney's Story
Queenie Prieto's Story
Grandmother's Frying Pan
Mary Eastwood's Story
Doreen Craig's Story
Tina Thorley's Story
Irene McGivern's War
Elsie Blackburn's Story
Huncoat's Pre-Fabricated Housing Estate
Jack Hills Story
Tom Norris' Story
A V.E. Day Romance
War Time
Bombs on Walkden
A Troopers Story (Memories of World War Two)
Alan Nutter's Wartime Memories
V.E. Day
Leaving of Liverpool
John Clough's Story
Ethel Rettie's Story
Eileen Lias' Story (nee Wharton)
William Waterworth's Story
Barbara Hewitson's Story
Joan Couch's Story
Eric Midgley's Story
Maureen Smith's War
Mary Tierney's Story
Leslie Flavell Story
Muriel Askew's Story
Irene Todd's Story
The Brighter Side of Life in Wartime East Manchester
Memories of Wartime Ancoats
A Tragedy Remembered
Stroking the Grass
Wartime Apprentice
Penfriends
My Time as a Boy in Birmingham during the Bombing
Arthur Metcalfe's Story
Hilda Ross' Story
Mary Chamberlain's Story
The War Was Nowhere Near Us!
A Child's Memories of Wartime in Blackburn
A Lancashire Lad in Wartime
I was there
Pauline Bolton's Story
My Dad and Me
The Things I Remembered
A Lancashire Lad known as 'The English Boy'
History of his Royal Air Force Career in World War Two (1)
History of his Royal Airforce Career in World War Two (2)
Edna Bickley's Story
I was there
Throwing hand grenades at Quernmore
DANCING TROOP
Blackpool Boarding House Memories
TORPEDOED IN BARBADOS
Barbara Powell's Story
Dancing in the Street
Lancaster virtually had no cars at all
The War'll be over before you get called up
Sinking the Bismarck
Waiting for Harold
Paraffin sponge cake
B. Walmsleys Story
History in the Making
Veronica's Story
V.E. Night at Blackpool
Madeline Roan's Story
Graham Hindles story of World War 2 Recollections
My War
Dunkirk Evacuation
Conscripted to France
Hard Times on Hard Ships
The Three Angels of Wharfdale
Eric Clayton's story
Hazel Flavell's Story
Cows
Discharged at Sea
The Night I Came of Age.
Mrs Edith Rigby's story
They Shot Me Down
The War Robbed Me Of My True Love
Ann Hinde's Story
Pyjamas
Mr D W Halden's story
Frank Baldwin's Story - Best Fighter is a hungry fighter
Long Journey Home
Frank William Bickleys Story
Gerald Openshaw
Sadness and Joy
Alan Bradley's Story
A Nighmare to be Forgotten
Mr W. Ludgrove's Story
Edward W.Heslop's Story
Marjorie Openshaw's Story

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