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A London Evacuee in Somerset

Three months later mum, dad and my younger sister and brother came to visit. Bombs started dropping nearby...

A Teenager in the Plymouth Blitz

As our school was near the Devonport Dockyard and faced on to the perimeter boundary of the Royal Naval...

The Lancaster Family: Evacuation to Nottingham, Loss of a Father, Work as a Clippie

The Lancaster Family: Evacuation to Nottingham, Loss of a Father, Work as a Clippie. When the blitz started...

The East End of London

We never went to the shelter every night sometimes the bombing eased off and we would all have partys and...

Tale of a West London Fireman

I did this for the remainder of the war and the system was that, although we were not in east London where...

Pompey at war

I stayed at Abbey Wood in London and the Duke of Kent, brother of King George V1 was killed in an air...

Childhood War in Ealing

On the site in Northfield Avenue a large round emergency water tank was erected and remained for the...

The Bombing of Norwich

One bomb must have fallen very close indeed when the shop window was blasted in, the cupboard door slammed...

Story - Joan Palmer

The story is about Joan's husband, Mr Clarence Palmer, an artist, who passed away in 1979 at the age of...

'War Years of George Family from Walton Village'

My father Frederick was just 16 yrs old when he became the manager of the local butchers shop called...

Woodseats to Firth Park in the Blitz

After the battle of Britain, when the Germans started to bomb cities at night, there were sometimes as many...

Memories from Members of Astley Lunch Club, Worcestershire.

THESE ARE STORIES FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GREAT WITLEY, WORC; MALVERN; LONDON, CARDIFF; LANCASTER,...

World War Two

In the Second World War it was usual, during air raids, to take cover in the coal cellar of the large...

A Few Memories: Army Nursing

In April 1943 she was stationed in Bournemouth.One Sunday she was coming back from Church Parade with a lot...

Devonport Blitz

In 1939 the Army wanted our School for a Hospital, so we shared a School in King Street in Devonport with...

From Pillar to Post - Part 3

Notice boards informed inmates of areas in the city badly blitzed and it was no surprise to mum when her...

Some Experiences of World War 2

When the German bombing raids started on London, we soon got into a routine of going down there when the...

Memories of the Blitz: Doug Sanderson

The 'Phoney War' was finally over when the bombing of many of our major towns and cities started...

Greenock and the Blitz: Destruction of the Distillery

In fact my own brother was up on the hill near the distillery and they had a six months old baby buried...

Home & School on the Front Line:Childhood memories in Kent

In the summer of 1940 the ‘real’ war started with the fall of France followed by the Battle of...

A Few Yards of Silk

Hundreds of people were trudging along like refugees, across the park to the other side, where a school had...

Growing Up through War and Giving a Hand on the Land

We lived 18 miles from London which was really rural at that time but near Northolt aerodrome. Despite the...

The Blitz was all My Fault

My friend was to bring the statue but as she wasn't at school, the teacher asked me if I could collect...

Bombed Out

"Come up here Ann, it's lovely and quiet, no bombs no sirens", said my sister-in-law Dorrie....

Queenie's war memories: On the Isle of Wight

By now the planes were really coming our way, we had Portsmouth opposite and we had ammunition factories at...

Roy Grayham-Wartime Memories

Things were getting pretty bad with the bombings so my mother decided to evacuate me again she sent me to...