Childhood and Evacuation

Williams War Images

It was pretty simple really we only had a paraffin lamp, a bunk and an old bit of carpet, we where not...

The Baron

When he had arrived at 6am a signalman or shunter from the nearby Stoneyfield Sidings was waiting for him...

Evacuated to Bressingham

Our teachers took us to Bush Hill Park station, complete with name tags and cardboard boxes containing our...

Horses to the Rescue

We had great fun working and playing together so it was a sad day at the beginning of the War when horses...

My memories of the war

When it came to suppertime I told my friends about my sister's boss making me the cream buns and we...

An Evacuee Story

Winnie takes up the story: “We were all marched to Heathway station to go by train to Paddington and...

Number 44

I attended Fairbridge Farm Schools in Vancouver Island , then went from Birmingham to Great Maulden but was...

Nursery Schools

Surrounded by airfields and with many engineering factories such as Igranic, Robertsons and Hobkirks,...

The Over-riding Fragrance: the Brewery

Soon after our arrival, two bombs fell in the middle of Witney...one of which fell on the said brewery. Oh,...

Family Life

If my father has a little look outside the window during a blackout my mother would shout at him to get the...

ORDERED TO KILL MY OWN FAMILY.

As they crossed France, stories were coming back from the French about how the Germans were killing the old...

Evacuation From London

Philip and I were given to Mr and Mrs Williams who lived at Miskin near Cardiff. I went to Mr and Mrs...

Lowestoft during the First World War

Another vivid memory of mine was when the HMS Halcyon returned to the south pier naval base with her...

If The Invader Comes

Get to Granddad's at Appledore, or Uncle Wilf's at Marden". "Ruthie" she replied. "...

Poem called FOR FREEDOM

'For freedom child' The heavens explode when the guns reply To the ferocious beasts who roam the...

12) I wonder...

The Baz, the Bushells, the Brownies, the Rolfies and the others on the periphery. For what was his birthday...

Query - Dad's Army

I can remember one dark evening when there was an air raid my elder brother took me outside to show me the...

Vivid Memories of Wartime

They would come over at weekends and take us out for tea, but Skipton was considered to be safer than...

Memories

I remember living in Strabane as it was near Lifford which was part of Southern Ireland and therefore not...

May 1941

I lived with my parents in Bootle, Merseyside through the worst of the Blitz, experiencing heavy bombing as...

THE ROOF FELL OFF

One of the camps in which I was billeted was at Alconbury in Huntingdonshire where the men were occupied in...

Evacuation to Luton

I was allowed to be evacuated along with my aunt from her school which was called Stanley Central for girls...

Good and bad as an evacuee

We lived in 28, Kings Road, Hay Mills, Birmingham, and behind where we lived, I think it was the BSA works,...

Evacuated twice

When we were back home, I remember walking along the street with dad, and a German plane was...

Kenneth Jack who was evacuated

My Grandmother and Grandfather were cooks in a mansion called Valden Hill House near Newbury Berks... By...

It Passed Me By (Part Two)

Allotment Associations sprang up, through which one got fertilisers and so on and many was the smelly sack...