Childhood and Evacuation

School Evacuation to Bemerton

There were four other evacuees in Cecil Terrace, Gerald Webb who was also billeted at Mrs. Cutler`s, Adrian...

Country Life was not for Me!

As evacuation was to continue until summer 1942 we shared the premises of King Edward's Grammar School,...

A Tragedy Remembered

The Davies family lived on an estate of Corporation houses at Higher Blackley, North Manchester, my father...

"TEACHING AND TEACHER TRAINING IN WARTIME BRITAIN"

Whilst working as uncertificated teachers 2 friends and I went to see dad's friend, a local farmer...

Evacuation 1939 - A Mixed Couple

I was evacuated from East Dulwich to Ashtead in Surrey with my sister, Mavis, just before the outbreak of...

When War Was Declared

When the Blitz began the following year, since we were outside the compulsory evacuation area it was...

No bananas in Chesham

With her 7 year old brother she was sent to Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Dot noticed that even though Chesham...

Grocery shop in Skewen

No bombs — no aeroplanes, and so I went back to Skewen to the shop, and went to school in Swansea -...

Milly's War-time on the Farm

We travelled to Paddington on the train and split off to Helstead, and just outside there was a village...

Kids in the Blitz

Since that time, it seems to me that my father was against evacuation to anywhere because my second eldest...

A child evacuated from Guernsey to St Helens

My paternal grandfather, who was a machine gunner in the First World War, knew all about it, having won the...

Doodlebugs and Socks!

My War by Sidney Elbro

I was sent to a Mr and Mrs Liveridge and lived at Field Barn Farm, Kilverston, Thetford, Norfolk which was...

My Wartime Memory

Iwas in the care of my big brother James, who had strict instructions "Don't let her out of your...

Wartime in India

My mother had returned to Scotland to have my sister but, due to the rumblings of war, it was decided that...

D-Day, Fags and Chewing Gum

Were we lived they cleared all these houses for training the French and Americans — British as well,...

Just Lucky

I was later evacuated with some other children and taken, by train, to St. Columb Major, near Newquay,...

My Familys War

Betty Sumner and her daughters Maureen and June from East Ham stayed with my Grandma, Mrs Eliza Wesley at...

Sweets to the Sweet: Farewell

Instead of precious metals and jewels there were unheard of luxuries such as tins of luscious mouth...

My War

One day we had three visitors: a Jewish professional man, his wife and thier teenage daughter, only a few...

Messerschmitt 109 Crowlands Avenue Romford and HMS Dido info:

She was one of four sisters who all lived at 25 Crowlands Avenue in Romford, with their parents Bill and...

Letter from home - Peace at last

Most of the people went off the Town Hall where there was a service but I went back to my room to...

A five year old's war in Wirral

Often, the lady from next door would join us as she was nervous by herself.At the age of four or five this...

THE WAR FROM MY YOUNG LIFE, AS A TEENAGER.

Our next door neighbours were quite old and very frightened so they came to us which made the pantry a bit...

A child's View

Mother got us out of bed when the air raid sirens went and put us all under the long wooden kitchen table...

A WARTIME CHILDHOOD IN NORWICH

Air raids, sirens, gas masks, coupons, shelters, blackouts, Americans, injured servicemen and food...