Childhood and Evacuation

War Savings Weeks

As Trowbridge was the home of a military barracks - and with various camps around the town - the parade was...

Manchester in the Blitz (part 2)

I remember sweeping the footpath with a small child's brush and passers by laughing at this little girl...

Olive Sherrar' s introduction to war

This particular night, a young soldier was invited to sing and he sang ‘Begin the begin’ by...

Home on leave...and a taste of Yorkshire

It was explained to us that this was a Yorkshire pudding, always eaten on its own before the main meal......

Evacuation - Manchester to Ribchester.

My brother and I were billeted just outside Ribchester near the Longridge reservoir, almost opposite to a...

A short episode of my life

Mum and Dad put some bedding down and when the sirens went we stopped in the pantry under the stairs... We...

At Christs Hospital School

In the autumn of 1940 when invasion was expected, parties of senior boys went out every afternoon with...

My Childhood War

The village was preparing for the onset of war, my Dad was in the home guard which he did after his duty...

Beryl's Evacuation

We were each given a carrier bag containing a packet of biscuits, a tin of corned beef and a bar of...

My Experience as a child, rations and shelters - by Marion Scrase

We had a Morrison shelter in our front room and an Anderson shelter in the back garden. My brother and I...

A Croydon Wartime Childhood

We used to get blackcurrant puree to put on bread, also dried egg and honey in tins from Canada. My brother...

An Evacuation Story

She was sent to a big hotel in Blackpool with other pregnant women and much to her dismay she found out she...

Mary Tierney's Story

Later on I went to the convent school in Stockport and my brother went to St. Bede's in Manchester. I...

Overcoming Wartime Stresses

I had gone from Croydon High School to the village school in Whitchurch, full of evacuees from Birmingham,...

Val's relatives in the War

He then was sent to Tripoli in Africa where was captured by Italians and handed to Germans as a POW. The...

It Passed Me By (Part Four)

There was some talk of sending us to Canada at one time, but a ship full of children and clearly marked was...

My War Story

The lady that Mum stayed with was nice at first but then used to remove the bath plug so they could only...

Wartime Memories of Everyday Life

However, in 1940 when I reached my fourteenth birthday I left school and began working for Robert Claughs...

School Days 1939

It came to pass that the gun site at Treeton became redundant; the war changed course and eventually, that...

Childhood Memories

When the Battle of Britain started we went to the park in Croydon where we had a good view of the dog...

Boy’s Flight Over Occupied France

For the English winter my mother and elder brother went out to join father in Persia and for the other six...

*A Sunderland Child in WW2*

My favourite lessons were P.E. and English, but there was not alot of P.E. then, you were lucky if you had...

My War Story

He spent much of that time on duty in London including the period of "The Blitz". At the same time...

The Englishman who saved the village

Well, I was asked to take this 83-year-old veteran from Durham to the village where he was shot. Well, in...

White teeth in the Blackout

We would lie in bed my sister and I and watch the searchlights and the glow of London burning and hear the...

The Evacuation

Only there weren't so many people then, only her mummy, daddy and grandma and grandad. As if to read...