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Sunderland during the war

Gordon wasn't evacuated, although many children from Sunderland were. Although many of Gordon's...

Grandads new shoes: Tyneside Blitz

In August 1940 German Air Fleet 15 began bombing raids on the North-East from its bases in Stavanger,...

The Sadness of War: Childhood Memories of Plymouth

On one night in particular, with my brother and I sharing the same double bed, My dad rushed into our...

The Blitz I won't forget.

Unknown to me, Dad was trying to find out Auntie Annie and his nephew, who were buried in the rubble and...

Memories of World War Two and Evacuation to Teignmouth, Devon

I was eight years old when the war started and, living in Plymouth, a Dockyard town, we were destined to be...

Looking For a Home

Mum sent a telegram to Dad who had returned from France and was now based at a large army camp that was...

Childhood Wartime Memories

After the terrific pounding that Liverpool and Bootle endured in May 1941 from enemy bombers, we, as a...

Fire Fire Everywhere

Now I turn to the horror of Pembroke Dock which was a garrison town and home for two regiments, two oil...

Family at War

One Sunday morning in November 1940 2 bombs dropped on Tolworth Hospital - my brother and I were asleep and...

Dancing through the War

I had been training as a dancer in ballet but not wishing to go into munitions I got a job in the...

Anecdotes (Some Fishy) from the Home Front, Liverpool

I am reliably informed that during one air raid he was running around the roof tops screaming and shaking...

Noise, Noise, Noise!: Childhood memories in Watford

Watford was not a specific target for bombs but we received our fair share during the early part of the war...

Rural Contrasts

During the phoney war, we were all evacuated to Castle Carig in Somerset with many other children who were...

Young Reminiscence

The first place I remember when the bombs started dropping was down the crypt at All Saints Church in...

Random Memories: A Child in Bristol

* I lived in Bristol and recall my parents taking my brother and myself up onto Bedminster Down to watch...

Sheffield Blitz: The Danger of Beetroot

We did have an Anderson shelter but my father didn't really think they where that safe so we always...

The Luck of the Irish

We had an Irish girl lodging with us,she had been with us for about 3 years,she used to work with my...

Plymouth Revisited

After the bombing raids in Plymouth we had to take over some big houses in Plymouth and try to help find...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Manchester by Jean Williams

Mum worked as a machinist during the day, whilst Dad was away, and worked nights at the Kardamah Cafe in...

German in the Garden

I got into the garden and came face to face with a German....

Bombs in South London, Looters and the Evacuee from Hell by Peter Harman

The evacuee from hell I stayed in Westfield on the South Coast until France fell and then Burry Port in...

Greenock Blitz and Scott's Shipbuilders

'They were found temporary accommodation in the shipyard in the old drawing office which we worked...

Dennis' Wartime Recollections as an Evacuee

Darwin has rugged terrain like Exmoor in Devon, but Dennis really enjoyed these weekly walks with his...

Memories of a Sixteen Year Old

But the most appalling memory I recall is when I was walking through Victoria Square with my Mother, and...

Plymouth Blitz 1941

Living next door to the Plymouth Corporation bus depot at Milehouse, we often seemed to be at the centre of...

A Wartime Childhood in Southampton

As this aunt lived in central Poole very near to the gasworks, and bombs were soon dropped in this...