Childhood and Evacuation

Evacuated from Guernsey to England, a family never return

Interviewed by BBC Radio Guernsey, probably by Becky Kendall NB Documents with the recording sometimes say...

Salvage

The cargo it carried, we were told, was cheeses, tins of soup, typewriters and telephones. I dare not leave...

The Girls’ Intermediate School evacuated from Guernsey to Rochdale

Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. Beryl Sebire. no, no...

The story of another Evacuee

We all had our gas mask boxes hanging around our necks, a label with our name, address and what school we...

Childhood in Mereclough, Lancashire

Because our family kept hens we had no shortage of eggs, and people would come from Burnley to buy our...

Memories from My Village, Denton. Northamptonshire

We had walked to the next village Yardley Hastings, about 2 miles away, to see my grandmother. I now know...

Guests of the Bishop of Chichester

The Bishop of Chichester, Bishop Bell, eventually went to serve in the Forces and he generously allowed us...

My Childhood memories

My Mum had been in the Land Army working in the fields above St Ives... On Sunday s my Grandfather Jack...

A child's eye view of WW2 - Birmingham and Tonypandy, South Wales.

There were seven children in my family — Frederick,, June, Doris,, Anne, myself, Brenda, and Shirley....

My First Memories of WW2

The house I was brought up in was a large four storey house that had six bedrooms, two lounges and two...

My War Years in North London

Living in North London we missed the worst of the damage, but we heard the bombing and felt the windows...

Working on Trewince Farm

The five daughters played tricks on me all the time nicknaming me the City Goose because I wasn't...

Preparation

It was 1939 and I was nine years old, we lived at a place called Lillingstone Dayrell in North...

Footsteps and Swans in the Belfast Blitz

A lot of the bombs landed in North Belfast at the water works as the pilots thought they wre bombing the...

Mary In the Land Army

Before joining the land army, Mary worked in the wages office operating a Burroughs machine at M.E.M...

An Evacuee from Guernsey reluctant to return

WW2 MEMORIES OF MICHAEL FERGUSON Part 2 - Dealing in the Black Market

It turned out that because the gentleman I was living with was touring round farms he was given eggs, which...

Husband & Wife's Memories of their Wartime Experiences

Peter was born in Brighton and went to a private school in Clarendon Villas, Hove in 1941... When Peter was...

Growing up in wartime Hartfield, Sussex.

After school one day a bomb landed on the Whitehall Cinema in East Grinstead, killing many people,...

School Days

I went to 3 different schools - St Mary's infants, St Mary's at Patrick Street and St Columba's...

The Tearful Goodbye

During the war, in late 1940 I was living at the family home with my mother in Croydon, along with my...

Pre D-Day

We arrived at the park gate, which led onto Vicarage Road quite breathless, and totally unprepared for the...

Winston Churchill's Waltzing Matilda

After the war, once again, you could have petrol, and Bennett's who were the taxi people in...

Memories of my Evacuation

My Brother and myself were then evacuated to Owston Ferry, on the River Trent in Lincolnshire... There was...

Local Crashes

The first one to crash was one Sunday morning as the congregation were coming out of Dayrell Church, an...

Anti aircraft guns and sticky bombs in the Home Guard in Cardiff

It was the World War 1 veterans who trained us how to throw grenades, to use a 303 and everything like...