Childhood and Evacuation

I Was an Analytical Chemist During the War

The father of the actor Richard Burton was a coal-miner and could not read and write... By the way, the...

A wartime boyhood in Bedford

Wartime boyhood in Bedford by Mr. Michael J. Darlow. I remember going up to Cardington between Shortstown...

Memories of an Officer's Batman Part One - From reserved occupation to Officer's Batman

Memories of an Officer's Batman Part One — From Reserved Occupation at Stewarty Brickworks to...

My early years were the war years

My Father sent me postcards of snow white and the seven dwarfs written in French which he translated on the...

Bombed out 3 Times

My father volunteered for the factory fire service and used to be on fire duty, there being a serious risk...

Stewed Food, Few Treats, No Dad, but Happy Childhood Days During the War

Dad volunteered and was accepted into The Royal Warwickshire. I remember mum crying when dad was posted...

A Child in Hospital

I remember, one night, there must have been a very big air raid on and all the nurses in the hospital, or...

The Way it Was

Shortly after the completion of the shelter, we witnessed our first air raid.My father called me to the...

North London And A Bomb In The Park

When the all-clear siren sounded, we were able to leave the shelter, but as we looked towards the park, we...

Evacuation 3.9.39 - the day that changed my life

Mrs Jones was very proud of her slate window sills and door step, burnished brightly. To be fair, Mrs Jones...

A Teacher's Life in the War

In summer 1939, aged 19, I was half way through a 2 year teacher training course at Darlington Training...

War can be fun!

We lived about 300 yards outside the Birmingham boundary so we didn't qualify for air-raid shelters or...

Worcester Life During WWII (part 2)

When people came home from the Navy on leave they would advertise in the paper to see if anyone had an...

WW2 seen through the eyes of Nanny and Pop

Pam writes that her Mum and Dad kept chickens in the garden and used to eat the eggs, one day she and...

A Peckham childhood

At that point London wasn't being bombed every night and the family no longer lived in Peckham but...

Adventures of a Go-Between

The three German crew members climbed out of the plane and gave themselves up to an ARP warden and were...

Childhood Memories in St Augustine's, Chesterfield

An Introduction

A Letter To Pamela Ron Ashmore I Was No War Hero Cedric Blaker Memories - A Poem Raymon Benedyk Land Mines...

A Civillian in Hastings & St. Leonards

Both the Hastings and the St.Leonards Piers had sections dismantled to stop any chance of their use if...

Snippets of a child's memory

Their house had been on the market for some time, as my mother and her sister had been proposing to open a...

TEACHER

My own Domestic Science College was evacuated from London to Torquay, it was my third year, and my mother...

Emrys Williams

Everyone was told at various times to go to the County Hall, Denbighto get fitted for 'Gas Masks' -...

BOMBING OF EVERTON

Life went on, only being interrupted by the sirens going off when we would all have to go into the cellar...

The ABC of Infant Memories in WW2 Part 2

I told my Mum and she said that I must not tell anybody, as the old lady was hiding from Hitler. Then...

Memories of a five year old.

From my bedroom window I had a distant view of Tiger Moth training aircraft practising 'circuits and...

'Sure, honey, I can fix it' - when the GIs came to Lydney

Her son had fought in France in the First World War so she knew all about the GIs' mothers' anxiety...