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Wartime Memories

Born Margaret Malvaney into a musical family she joined the choir at St. Ann's Catholic Church at the...

Belfast During the Blitz

During the ‘Blitz’ on Belfast I was studying at the College of Technology and had accommodation...

Memories of the Blitz

Early on in the war my two elder brothers were evacuated to Stockton on Forrest outside York and my sister...

The Day I left School, 29 December 1940 by Leslie Robinson

I was still at achool attending the City of London College, Ropemaker Street in the City, and travelled...

Cathedral

The war was progressing, bombing had started on our country so our local Coventry government saw the...

Birmingham Blitz - December 1940

I expect you have heard that Dad's place has been H.E.’d then burnt clean out — also Boots...

A Bombing Raid on Acton

I lived with my family; Mum, Dad, three sisters at 26 Park Avenue,Acton,London W3 and was 16 years of...

Memories of WW2 in Swansea

We lived in the centre of the town just by the library and police station, I can remember my Dad, coming...

A Child in London 1939-45

It must have been about 1940 when I first remember the Second World War — I was about 4 and a half...

"Why Does Hitler Want to Kill Me?": Part 2

My service in the Merchant Navy in the late fifties and my time on Christmas Island never matched those WW2...

A Wartime Child in Liverpool

I had a further period of hospitalisation when I contracted Scarlet Fever and was in isolation for some...

The Blitz

On the night of May 9/10, 1941 I went to bed in the block of council flats at 60 Halton Road, Islington......

The Evacuees

Our father was working in England, as at this time there was no work for Catholics in Northern Ireland......

Narrow Escape

However a friend, who I called Auntie Nora, was going to the Lake District for a break and offered to take...

Watime Life in East Hull

The next day a rumour spread saying that a big local businessman was going to send lorries to take women...

Coming Home

We had walked to Euston to catch a train to Crewe, I think, and then had to sleep on Crewe station waiting...

Alan's War

At the age of 12 years I lived with an Aunt Mrs. Alice Buss at 508, Commercial Road, Portsmouth... We were...

Norman Ellis's experiences in the Friends' Ambulance Unit

Norman was born in Yeadon, to the west of Leeds, on 13th March 1920, almost a year to the day after his...

A Night at the Cinema

I wonder if the bombing happened because the then King and Queen had been visiting the previous day and it...

Evacuee in Gortin, Co. Tyrone

I was evacuated to Gortin: we were collected at Mountcollyer School and travelled by train to Omagh - a...

Doodlebug and Disinfectant

I watched the doodlebug continue in the direction of the River Medway and The City of Rochester until I...

Liverpool Blitz: Firewatching on the Manchester Ship Canal

I had been to Liverpool and I caught the last bus back from Birkenhead to Ellesmere Port. Two friends who...

The Walls Have Ears

We would go to bed at night wondering if the sirens would have us dashing out of bed to the cellar where...

An Old Eastenders Boyhood Memories Part 3: Black Saturday 1940

The siren blared out as I sat in the garden, lost in a world of my own, digging away at the sun-baked...

November Blitz Escape: Coventry

Half way back, she was stopped by an ARP warden and asked where she was going - when she said 'Milton...

The Night of the Blitz: In Manchester

I remember walking four miles into Manchester City where I worked, through glass, rubble, water, etc. With...