Childhood and Evacuation

my experience while serving w.a.a.f.

I was conscripted into the service in 1941 and after weeks of training I WAS transferred to liverpool. the...

What I remember of the War in the Netherlands, Chapter 3

Although there was a curfew, people still went out at nightime to collect wood from the bombed out houses...

War time

The "War Time" memories of Mrs Brenda Levin and her sister Mrs Barnister They were born in...

Living with our soldiers

Inside there were large cauldrons where hot water was boiled for tea and cooking and the cover on top was...

School bus

When this happened there were two things one could do: catch the next bus into Drummer Street, in Cambridge...

Life in the Pub

Dad's War

He also built a shelter in our pantry with some railway sleepers and when the air raid siren sounded we all...

My Granny's WW2 Story

My Granny wasn't actually in the war she was a child in the war and lived in a small village... Every...

Childhood memories

Although currently an inhabitant of Rothbury, Mrs Burdon spent her childhood in the Scotswood area of...

Peril in Penge

I don't know why I was crossing that small park area in Penge. I tried to explain to him my near death...

Peg's story

Austrian Refugee In Nutley

Part of Nutley Garage, which was owned and run by my family, was taken over by the W.D. in 1940 for the...

An increasing household

We had no land girls, but three Italian prisoners of war came every day with a supervisor... The...

The Shelter

He had a rough piece of land next to Annes's home and it was there that builder Pondsford built a...

Memories of Keighley in Wartime

During the war I lived in Keighley and worked in Smith's ammunition factory, working on the bayonets....

Memories of a Wartime Childhood in Luton

They were aimed at the big manufacturing firms in the area, for example Vauxhall, George Kent, Commer Cars...

Panic in the Bar

The Guildhall Hotel was situated in Guildhall street Folkestone, wher my father was tenant... The lounge...

A "Bump" in the night.

I was 10 years old when my most vivid memory of our family sleeping in our rather cold damp Anderson...

VE DAY

It has been said that Churchill mobilised the English Language and sent it into battle... Two great...

My Childhood Memories

We then heard that Farnons in Newcastle had blackout material so my mother went to get some material and my...

Evacuation from Guernsey

My father,Gordon Stephens was a keeper on the Hanois Lighthouse when the war started and we lived in the...

WARTIME CHILDHOOD

I was on holiday at my Aunty Nellie's in Tideswell, nr Buxton. Also when the air raid siren went, Mum,...

Black Crosses

We were living in 96 Wilton Park Road, Lake, Isle of Wight... My brother John and I were waiting alongside...

An evacuee came home

I didn't enjoy staying in the country with this particular lady because she was not particularly fond...

The gas masks arrived on a horse and a cart

I was 7 when war broke out, I lived at 191 Manchesters Rd, in Kearsley with my parents, and two sisters...

Mrs Morris

Every time the siren went when we were in school, I used to take a couple of girls home with me to...