Childhood and Evacuation

War Anecdote: Memories of the Liverpool Blitz

On one occasion my mother my sister and I were walking in crocodile fashion with all the rest of the...

A Daylight Raid on Darwen

I went to a small preparatory school in Darwen on the green, which occupied two big rooms on the first...

To Save a Girl

They took in a Jewish girl and passed her off as their missing child that was on record. I remember they...

Double Decker Bus! Terry Bullock

Terry Bullock remembers his time as a young lad in Knowle West during the Blitz on Bristol and the pranks...

Young Evacuees: From London and Banbury

On 13 September 1940, the day Buckingham Palace was bombed, my sister and I were evacuated from Brockley,...

Evacuation from Leeds to Wetherby

We were both very home sick and only stayed a week,my mum mrs edna burton came to collect us both, and took...

Air Raids and Shelter

Behind our back garden fence was the main rail link between the Channel Ports and Woolwich Arsenal so we...

Welcome Home

I went to fetch groceries including eggs One day as I walked down Penkhull bank to Wharf Street I saw two...

Getting out of London: From Walthamstow to Chelmsford

My dad's sister worked at Marconi's factory in Chelmsford, on war work and also at a shirt factory,...

A Cockney Encounters Real Chickens

I remember the coach arriving at Boxted Hall in Suffolk which was a huge estate with a moat and tennis...

Memories of My Fireman Dad

My Dad worked as an auxiliary fireman in the city. We had an alley by the side of our house, and we...

Boy messenger: In Liverpool

Our base was Palladium cinema which was the ARP depot and when anyone needed an ambulance etc the police...

My Granda as an Evacuee.

The Germans bombed these factories and shipyards to stop making weapons like guns and tanks to defend...

Safe in Wales

He went into the RAMC and our mother, granny and nurse took the 7 children to north Wales where we rented a...

Evacuation

I was an evacuee twice at that time once to Catworth in Huntingdonshire then to Norton St Philip...

Sent to Somerset

My brother and I attended the local school and on the way home we would steal coal from the local slag...

Milk and Food: After The War

I used to take a bowl and a jug to the school there was about 5 ladies standing servingg soup and dinner...

The Day I Entertained The Troops

Some of the servicemen spoke to me and being a very precocious and chatty little girl I responded. Whether...

One Peaceful Sunday Morning...

I was only seven when the war ended, and my most vivid memory is of a doodlebug hitting our town, Westerham...

A Christmas Kindness

I picked up one of her coppies of Woman's Weekly and the star letter was from a lady who said her...

Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy -Part 2

What I saw all the glass from shop windows was blown out and Penryn's town clock face was all in bits...

Evacuated Three Times

My father joined the Army and my mother, sister and I moved to Dagenham near London to be near our...

A Bunch of Bananas

Amid the excitement of Raymond's homecoming my mam took the bananas and hung them in the window to...

Story - Maud

The war at the time didn't affect Maud when she was younger but she is now scared of lightening and...

Everyday Life on the Home Front

"The house in Cambridge Terrace was a two up / two down, my parents having one bedroom and my sister...

Barrage Balloons

We lived in my Grandparents house, 5 Naples Road Seacombe, Wallassey... I remember when we lived at...