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An Evacuee's Memories of Wartime Leek

We were bussed to Manchester Piccadilly Station, and got the train to Leek. Nothing happened in Manchester,...

Happy Times at School Camp by Geoff Blyth

There are about 60 people in the group, with members in Australia, New Zealand, US and Canada... The Lady...

Misfortunes of War

My friend Ivor Luscombe and I were collecting food for our pet rabbits near the coast above the Devon...

The Beginning of a New Era

I was in school during the war years in the Kingswood area and remember the first barrage balloon that went...

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The Unknown Warden

Edward was looking in Picton library recently and came across a chapter in a book on the blitz and Mrs Taft...

Father Disappeared.

It was around the time of Dunkirk and a policeman knocked on our door... The policeman said, 'Hello...

First Night

My Father must have been working on the night shift at British Celanese Leaving Mother to look after us.We...

Life in a Police Stationicon for Story with photo

I was born and lived in the Police Station at Pontardulais, Glamorgan. The war continued the toll of losses...

First Curry and Rice.

I went to a public school and we were evacuated with the school to a country Mansion in Culham,...

Story - Jenny Lakeman

The marines were at the Collingwood Hotel, the Pegcall were at Ilfracombe hotel, the wrens had the mount...

Evacuation and Separation

Mum was ill with quinsy and I was taking care of her, even though I was only eight years old. I just...

Memories of life in wartime Manchester by May Barlow

During the bad winter in very deep snow I walked to Burnage where my boyfriend lived then and from there we...

East Ayrshire Wartime Memories

Molotov Cocktails – the LVD issued their members with Molotov Cocktails that were stored in the...

Our Air Raid Shelter

Two air raid shelters were erected in our street - my family lived in Middlesbrough as my father was a...

Geoff Claxton's Memories 1938-45

The newspapers talk of Adolf Hitler and his No. 2 Hess, the man with green eyes. we go to Norwich city my...

Memories of being evacuated in 1939

We lived in Plumstead in south east London.Quite a few of the adults in my area worked at the Woolwich...

Shottery Post Office in Wartime

27 — Roma Innes, and Dorothy and Nigel Whateley lived at Shottery Post Office during the War: Emmy...

The Boys in Khakiicon for Story with photo

As a school girl aged 13 at home with my parents, brother and sister we lived very near to Oldbury Hall...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England: Part 6

My cousin George William, confined now in a German POW camp, informed my mother in one of his letters that...

I Recall the Second World War

My name is Alfred George Hobbs and I was born seventy years ago in Marylebone Street, Portsmouth. I was...

Life With an Evacuee and Others

Pat and her sister, Irene, has been billeted with another person in Gunnislake but they weren't very...

Life as an Evacuee in North Wales by Mr D J Waller

I was evacuated with my brother in 1944 from Hornchurch to Pen-y-cae, near Wrexham in North Wales. When we...

Manchester Blitz: Evacuation and My Blind Doll

FRom my bedroom window I looked out to the famous Kinder Scout pass - a very different view from my bedroom...

A Family Evacuated with the Best Times in Wales by Betty Rumsey

My mother, two brothers and sister were living in North London at the time... I and Patrick went into a...

Got Any Gum Chum? Childhood Memories of Greenford and Uxbridge

With the unmitigated cruelty of warring siblings, the Anderson became a place of enforced imprisonment post...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Adswood by Bill Birch

I lived in Adswood and remember an aircraft of the USAAF making a forced landing on Clutha Road playing...

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