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Capture

My friend Maria and her family survived the uprising and lived a few stations from Warsaw. After we had our...

An Ossett Child's Memories of World War II

Another aspect of the war was that a large number of troops - Royal Signals - were stationed in Ossett up...

An Evacuee's Afternoon in Chichester

At the age of 11 I was evacuated with Henry Thorton grammar school, Clapham to Chichester where we were...

An Unusual Place to Store Food

My elder sister and I slept in a shed that was decorated and parked behind the caravan and my younger...

A Lighter Aspect of War

Later the factory also had Italian POW's and after the Italian surrender the POW's were allowed...

Bunking school in the bunker

Middlesborough was a steel town and a prime target so my brother, John, 7 at the time and I were bused to...

My Life As A Schoolboy During The 2nd World War

We used to have a ‘Holiday At Home’ fortnight in Clifton Park, but one bank holiday Monday, a...

Wartime Holidays: At the Red Lion Pub in Sturminster Marshall

Travel in wartime was difficult, trains were packed with servicemen and women and we often had to stand in...

Childhood memories of wartime Bristol

At the top of Purdown between Muller Road and Ashley Down Station, was a large American army transport...

Surviving a Direct Hit in Bristol

Although we had been provided with an Anderson shelter in the back garden, only the day before, it was...

Things That Went Bump in the Night

My father had built a concrete air-raid shelter in our back garden in Vicarage Farm Road, Heston and when...

Childhood Memories

One night there were Stirling bombers, and German planes were attacking them, and we were watching the...

Crashed Lancaster bomber West Keal

The school was on the flight path of the Lancaster bombers based at East Kirkby aerodrome and every time...

A Child's Eye View: Scared in Canning Town

The shelter being erected in the small back garden in Canning Town where my mum and dad and little sister...

A Child in War-Time

As children, my sister, Lyn, and I thoroughly enjoyed the dried bananas, chocolate drink and gum handed out...

Ron Gardner at Pentewan

Now here I was still with the thump of the bombs, the rattle of machine guns and the crump of the the...

Young War Memories

I can remember workman arriving at our house and digging a trench accross our garden and next doors garden...

Childhood Memories

We were ten miles south of Derby, so we were in a gun-defended area or GDA because of Rolls Royce factories...

Tales from Childhood

You did anything you could in post war Wales to supplement your rations, the idea was we would sell the...

It Started in Cable Street for Us

I had met Felix Whertheimer, auntie Betty's boss who had been one of Adolph Hitler,s first guests in...

From White Hart Lane to Sandford Mill.

I thnk we were transported down to Great Baddow in a car and eventually to 5 Sandford Mill Cottages to stay...

My Dad: Childhood Memories in Blackpool

I was born and raised in Blackpool, Lancs. where my dad was a postman driver. he was called up into the...

Bombs Away 1940 and D-Day 1944

And there it was, a Heinkel bomber, German markings clearly visible, flying in from the north towards...

Wartime Life: Evacuated from the Channel Islands

My mother, my sister and I hid in Melplash with our two children as we didn't want to let the children...

Wartime Evacuation to Bellingham Camp

They went to farms, camps or private houses and my sister and I went to Bellingham North Tyne at Brownrigg...

Life in Manchester

The nearest shelters were ‘The Caves’ in Stockport to the south of Manchester... There was a...