Childhood and Evacuation

The Hollington V1 Doodlebug 16th July 1944

I was five and a half years old, and my parents and I were working in the garden of our council flat...

The fastest 50 yards dash in history?

Mum and Gran were standing outside my Grans shop which took up all the front room and most of the front...

The Story of an Evacuee.

The only 2 evacuees left were myself and Paul a little boy who was much younger than I was... As the war...

MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR TWO - HAZEL WARREN

I went back to London to be with Mum. The peace we hoped for never lasted long and all around Bristol and...

WARTIME CHILDHOOD IN BATTERSEA, LONDON

In the back yard we had a brick air-raid shelter and behind that ran the big viaduct which carried the...

Travelling between Shropshire and Cheshire

My other souvenir of the War was a model airplane made and given to me by an Italian prisoner of war...

Evacuees

Fortunately, Vernon was not really old enough to take in what had happened, he had got used to his daddy...

Doodlebug over Clowne - childhood memories

My Memories of War - by my Nanna, Magaret Southards

I cycled to work for about 1 yr and then my Grandfather bought me a little Austin Seven and because of my...

WW2 Wolversdene Schooldays

The town of Andover was surrounded by airfields in those days so we were very lucky as nothing ever fell...

A small matter in a big war

Whatever hit us it had blown the door from the hall to the living room and off its hinges and dow which...

HOW NOT TO GET AN IRISH LASS by Ray Culley

They also told us the local Irish Lasses looked favourably on Canadian sailors. The dance floor was crowded...

How to save your marrows from theft

Some years later, a neighbour gave her a marrow and when I saw it lying on the worktop in the kitchen I...

Friday Night at the YMCA

1942-3 — In the lower sixth, on Saturday Mornings, we had to carry out duties for the War Effort, and...

War years as a Civilian or CHild

Memories of a child

I know a few bombs dropped here, and i seem to remember an enemy plane coming down behind Cambridge Road...

School life in London

At Hambleden we slept in the village school and had our meals in the village hall. This story was...

Remembering Catherine

I was evacuated to Gobowen in North Wales and Catherine, my best friend at school, her parents wouldn't...

Evelyn's Story

As I got older, I worked to ‘to do my bit’, so as my Dad was a member of the Auxiliary Fire...

My Wartime Childhood

I shall never forget that day, as my sister and I were in Sunday School in the Church of St Michael's....

A Cockney Boy's Respite in Darlington

In July 1944 I was twelve years old and I was evacuated to Darlington to give me a break from the Flying...

I Hid Behind the Door to Hear the Declaration of War

The chocolate was York plain chocolate, not popular with us children, and the corned beef and the condensed...

WAR DECLARED

My Grandmother had lost her eldest son in the Great War... Miss Pickford had lost her fiancée in the...

Big ginger biscuits, ginger squares and bakewell tarts!

Norah was born in Railway Cottages, near The Bowes Moor Hotel, and as her father worked for the railways...

MEMORIES OF AN EVACUEE

They were probably our anxious parents, one of whom was my mother who had given my eldest sister Dorothy,...

A FEW WARTIME MEMORIES OF A 5/6 YEAR OLD SCHOOLBOY

I remember that when my Father came to the end of his leave he always had to catch the 4 p.m. bus...