Childhood and Evacuation

My memories of being evacuated

Then each householder who had arranged to have an evacuee, came out and picked who they wanted, gradually...

HOW I HELPED WIN THE 2ND WORLD WAR-AGED 3!

My only maternal uncle had been in the Army for years before the war,serving in India in the King's Own...

Wartime memories of a resident of Olton, Solihull

This story was contributed by Solihull Heritage & Local Studies Service, Solihull Libraries. This story...

Mr Thurston's Wartime Memories (Thurston Funfairs)

Schoolboy in Wallasey Part One

My elder brother brought back an unexploded incendiary bomb he found on the beach. Raising funds to buy a...

MEMORY OF FOLKESTONE AND CAPEL DURING THE WAR

Memories of fighter pilots walking down Capel St - Mum told me later that most were only teenagers. I can...

Childhood Memories of WW2

During the War Mum worked for the Inland Revenue and it was Gran who did all the cooking of our meals and...

My Evacuation, WW2

Of course the village life was a huge change for my Mother and myself, the house my Grandparents lived in...

World War Two Is Declared - Life On The Home Front.

John's sister Margaret and brother in law Joe would not bother to come to the wedding because John had...

If I smell an oil stove I smell new baked bread

We stayed in Eastbourne until after Dunkirk, then of course, it was realized that it was not a good idea to...

Evacuees And Yanks In Yeovil

Mum took us to live at Grandmother's house in Yeovil; it was a rambling old house with big rooms and...

Too Young to be Afraid

We shared a small, condemned terraced house with an aunt and uncle and next door was my maternal gran, her...

Parts 3 and 4 SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORIES OF PAULINE HUSBAND

I know I wore a woollen vest, fleecy knickers usually in navy blue, which mother would pull down over my...

School Days in Wartime London

My formal ode in praise of the defenders of Stalingrad came second to a racy composition on HMS...

1.Childhood Memories

I think some women were as well. We children would explore the bombed buildings and one of the things we...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part one)

If that war had not happened, the centre of local government in our district would still be called...

YOUNG MATILDA'S MEMORIES -A Derry evacuee's tale

The front door led into a small square porch, to the left was the kitchen and to the right was the sitting...

War Time London - in the Eyes of a Child

When dad joined the army, it had seemed sensible that, like hundreds of other children, I should be...

Wartime memories of a Henley lad aged 10.

With the daytime/night-time bombing of Germany commencing it was a common sight to see badly damaged...

On Being an Evacuee in Melbourn

In May my brother Peter had his first bicycle. It was often the custom pre-war to spend some time with...

Memories of a 7yr old girl of 1939-45 in Swansea

When we were given our gasmasks, we had to take them everywhere with us and even had them hanging on the...

Did it do us harm

Then all of a sudden we were off again only this time without Mum, it was a bus then a train then...

BETTY'S WAR

I took up dressmaking with the London Paddington Technical College for Boys and Girls who had the top floor...

Belfast during the Blitz

I remember after the Tuesday night raid in 1941 that a bomb landed on the Castlereagh Road at Mournes Row...

A Romford Schoolboy's memories of WW2 - Pt 1

Windows and tiles went, and Mum was saying "come to me" while Dad was saying "stay where you...

Memories of Mrs Sellick

There were two main places where Mrs Sellick enjoyed going to dances to socialise with friends: the YMCA...