Letters to Alfred Edward Hind (Ted) "It is very nice of you to remember me and send me such a nice present." Sent from: Leicester
James Chapman to Harriet Chapman "We are still having a fairly good trip, and manage to find plenty of amusement, through we have to make a lot of it ourselves"
Elsie Skipper to her husband John "We listened together to the declaration of war, we should have been together for Victory. How I wish you could have been here to see the celebrations." Sent from: Balham, London Date of letter: 10 May 2045
Henry Avery to his daughter Edith "Searchlights sweep about overhead and there is some gunfire. The streets are deserted and as we get down eastwards and cross Whitechapel Road into Sidney St we can see several big fires going." Sent from: East London Date of letter: 8 September 1940
Janie Dennison to her nephew Derek Thornton "They made a dummy Hitler and Mr Duckles the black and white artist from Blakeboroughs drew his face and they did burn him" Sent from: Brighouse, West Yorkshire Date of letter: 9 May 1945
Mary Wade to her mother "Thank you very much for sending my compact which arrived this afternoon" Sent from: Cuffley, Hertfordshire Date of letter: 3 February 1943
Walter Scott to Bessie Bowden "Manchester was pretty much the same when I passed through last Tuesday, though more of the rubble had been shifted by fellow members of the rubbish-clearing union to which I now belong." Sent from: Wigan Date of letter: 9 July 1942
Doreen Griffiths to her father Henry Griffiths "Well dad, make hast(e) and come soon so we can go to the pictures" Sent from: Broseley, Shropshire
Constance May Carr-Jones to Stanley Carr-Jones "The news came through that 'Monty's' army had accepted the surrender of the German army. You'll be in bed now but what a nice surprise for you when you wake up!" Sent from: Liverpool Date of letter: 4 May 1945
Lieut W.F. Copelin to Ann Copelin "Thank you for doing your ABC on Mummy's letter. You are a clever girl." Date of letter: 26 November 1943
George Kendall OBE to his friend George Tomlinson "What a fearful blitz a week last Saturday and the result was that all trains, buses, underground, railways etc. had been stopped from our end - the City was absolutely closed to traffic and East Ham is a long way" Sent from: East Ham, London Date of letter: 19 May 1941
Emily Mackintosh to her brother Len "It is nice to be able to have something from different parts of the world. Places where we at home will never visit." Sent from: Northamptonshire
Winifred Coles to Glencoe Alfred Lambell about the blitz in Exeter "My word we did have a time of it and poor old Exeter is in a sorry state." Sent from: Exeter Date of letter: 6 May 1942
Megan Humphreys to Jock Raven "There were millions of people at Trafalgar Square tonight. I felt as tho' I were a person in the books I've read about the last war. People sang and shouted and smoked and wore ridiculous red, white and blue hats." Sent from: The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London Date of letter: 7 May 1945
Olly Kirby to her husband Bert "Let's hope it's over soon. It's bad enough for us at home here but what must it be like for all you chaps." Sent from: London Date of letter: 5 April 1943
Marjorie Garbutt (nee Walker) to her fiancé Bill "I can't grasp that I'll have you home soon, that all this slaughter has ceased, we pray God, for ever." Sent from: Sunderland Date of letter: 16 August 1945
Olly to Harry Arthur (Bert) Kirby "We heard the incendiaries coming down, one outside the garage again, and someone came in in hysterics saying Mac's place was on fire" Sent from: Stepney, London E1 Date of letter: 15 January 1941
Olive Kirby to her husband Harry Arthur ‘Bert’ Kirby "I thought the top of the house was in, we could hear all the dirt falling in the yard." Sent from: Stepney, London E1 Date of letter: 11 December 1940
To George Henry ‘Bill’ Korten from his mother "its like ordinary times here. never mind the war will soon be over" Sent from: Stepney, London E1 Date of letter: 14 April 1941
William Whiteway to Fred Chapman "Blimey what a job it must be to get grub, ammo and a million other things up to the front, but of course you don't need me to tell you all this as you must know it for yourself." Sent from: Greenwich, London Date of letter: 19 September 1944
Fred Chapman to Vi Chapman "I was grateful for those four hours that we were fortunate to have together" Sent from: Greenwich Date of letter: 1 June 1944
Rosemary S Andrews’ creative writing "Yes, I'll do the canteen every day eleven o'clock till one. Delighted, my dear, too delighted." Sent from: Douglas, Isle of Man
Letters from Patricia Harvey "I have done a little more work this week - okay no wise cracks - but the WAAF do work occasionally but up in forties section they really are hard at work" Sent from: Brighton
Mrs Doreen Doe’s VE day and evacuation recollections "We left London in 1939 and we never went back to London again, not that we had a home to go back to: it had been bombed to the ground." Sent from: East London
Rhoda Jones to her parents "It's heartbreaking to enter the public shelters. Mothers and children looking so pale, wanting to sleep and all saying why don't we bomb Berlin?" Sent from: Central Middlesex Hospital London
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