Childhood and Evacuation

A Guernsey Evacuee in Hale receives news of his family

At this timeI had a letter from my mother who had come across to Basingstoke with her mother-in-law and...

MEMORIES OF THE SHELTER

My family was allocated to Maida Vale Station... At Queens Park Station we took the train to Maida Vale on...

The Inverted Evacuee

In Belfast my aunt and uncle were allowed to stay in the house during the day but not at night... My aunt...

Oranges, just for me!

I lived in a village near Carmarthen in Wales... They were taken to the village hall where the vicar's...

Snippet of memory

There stretched an expanse of beautiful hard sand, I stamped my feet in a tantrum - I wanted to paddle -...

The Evacuee

However I did have an aunt and uncle who were avid cyclists, they had ridden all over europe on their...

Bombs, Gliders and Dooodle bugs over Newbury

Elliots of Newbury manufactured components for wartime aircraft including hawsers for the gliders....

Anne Van Der Linden

In Holland, after the war ended, the children were so under-nourished that the Dutch and English...

wartime in Lewisham Wye and Buckhorn Weston

I had been evacuated to Wye in Kent in 1939 and was billeted at a mansion with other children in the care...

My Daddy was a 'Special'.

I was born Lucy Kathleen Griffiths in March, 1934 in Uxbridge, Middlesex and was five and a half years old...

The 31st of August 1939

Then came Christmas and New Year and school holidays, one day at this time, I was reading at a table, and a...

The Barrage Balloon

They didn't talk much about the war except about the bombing raids on Bristol and the South Wales and...

Nursing mentally handicapped in Sheffield

I was working at St. Josephs in Sheffield which was run by the Roman Catholic sisters of Charity. The home...

Town to Country and Back Again

On 3rd September 1939 I was in a hall in Robertsbridge, Sussex, listening to the wireless and Neville...

The last two evacuees in Belbroughton

She lived about a mile walk out of the centre of the village, with Aunt Emily, her 85-year old grandmother....

No Flag Dress and Dad's Diary

We were back in Birmingham by then and it was great, with a piano in the street, a bonfire, baked potatoes,...

Wirral at War, through the eyes of a young girl

We lived on the Wirral side of the River Mersey and the war barely touched us until the Spring of 194l......

A Little Boy Lost in Ambleside

Every child was assigned to residents of Ambleside in the Lake District singularly, with brothers or...

No Birds, No Dogs or Cats

When a bomb dropped I stood in the shop and watched the window — it bowed right in and then went back...

Rationing and the Luftwaffe

Her brother Teddy had a pub in the town and he used to cash the US Airmen;s cheques through the week for...

Growing Up In Wartime Sandown

There was rationing of course, but I don't remember ever going short of food — the soldiers made...

Gulliver's Travels In An Anderson Shelter

My cousin and I were walking home from school crossing the London-Brighton railway line at Earlswood...

My Life as an evacuee

My father was a teacher at a London primary school and he had to go to Folkestone with his class......

Convoys - as seen from my attic window.

It was July 1940 I was busy making raspberry jam when we hear the sound of a plane overhead, we knew it...

Poem of an Evacuee

The blitz then came to Manchester I was quickly returned back home, "The family are not to be...

Lincolnshire Memories

John said "Our walk-in pantry was always full of Bren guns, Lewis guns, Sten guns, boxes of Mills hand...