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| RMMee Moderator | A new Subject Heading posted on: 5/25/2005 5:01:03 PM At the request of a regular contributor, I've set up this new heading. Although there are already postings to do with wartime memories, there's much more yet to be captured. So, if you remember anything from that time - whether you were strictly on the home-front, and had to suffer the deprivations of rationing, or were part of the armed-forces, or working on equally important work back home - we want to read your recollections. |
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Peter Chamberlain
Researcher This message was updated on 5/27/2005 7:07:19 AM by Peter Chamberlain |
Prisoners of War at Langley Mill
replied on: 5/25/2005 5:39:08 PM The other day my grandaughter walked in with some brightly coloured lengths of plastic which she proceeded to weave into a multy coloured bracelet.It immediatly struck up a memory of some 60 odd years ago when going to school in Langley Mill a work party of German and Italian prisoners of war had been put to work laying either cables or drains between the Station Bridge and North Street. Being nieve 5 or 6 year olds we made sort of friends with these people.As the days past we saw them every day and they made similar bracelets and gave them to us as gifts.I recall the bracelet being Blue and Yellow and i gave it my mother. I no she still had the bracelet some 20 years later when i left home but somewhere in the sands of time it vanished possibly to the tip at the back of the Durham Ox |
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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 5/26/2005 1:57:34 AM by Azzabuv |
Langley Wartime Reminiscences
replied on: 5/25/2005 9:34:10 PM As a just about pre-school nipper and living at Langley, (next to Langley Colliery) i remember the heavy aerial drone of the large combined flights of bombers, on their way to tickle Hitler and co. This was in the last year of the war. (1944 - 45). Earlier on in the war, a German bomb dropped near the colliery, bringing ceiling plaster down in the house. This latter was told to me by my Father, years later, myself being too young to have noticed that particular incident. Azzabuv. |
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suzard
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Langley Wartime Reminiscences
replied on: 5/26/2005 1:55:54 PM All I really remember is playing shop with the ration books! |
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RMMee
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Langley Wartime Reminiscences
replied on: 5/26/2005 5:35:08 PM Let's start some different threads in this topic. I'll close this thread so that people have to start a new one. |
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