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Growing Up in North London & Hackney

We had to go and stay in my Grandmother's flat in Clapton Common for about 18 months, during which time...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: Child's Play

Some of the cordite we packed into a golden syrup tin, the lid hammered down, and a small hole knocked in...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh in Essex: Child's Play

Some of the cordite we packed into a golden syrup tin, the lid hammered down, and a small hole knocked in...

Pam Bridges - 14 Year Old Makes Good Target

I looked and saw that it was a German plane, coming directly towards me, a helpless 14 year old girl in the...

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School Boy's War: Volunteering in Tooting Bec

In 1944 I was a 16 year old school boy at Bec School, Tooting Bec in South London, at the time of...

African Childhood Memories of World War 2

The personal account of a gentleman, who was in Kenya, Mombasa during the Second World War. He was born on...

'U' Boats off Ingoldmells

The phantom 'U' boats of Ingoldmells sail unexorcised to this day....

Bombs in the Poppyfield

One dark night with not a star in the sky, we were toppled almost out of our beds by a bomb that...

Feeling Lost and Frightened

I was nine years old and the year was 1944 when I and my little sister aged four were eva cuated from...

Wartime in Dartmouth

In terms of further activity I can remember a German reconnaisance plane flying over the harbour a few days...

Early War Memories: My Father in the Army Dental Corps

I didn't have many toys, so my father brought me a cloth doll with a plastic face from Belgium and a...

Childhood Memories

In 1939 I remember standing at Leeds railway station with my two sisters and my mother and lots of other...

Mrs Churchill's Aid to Russia Fund

My mother kept chickens and as eggs were very scarce Dad took them to work and raffled them for the Mrs...

Evacutation 1st Time 1941

My mother and I visited him.He was staying with an elderly couple,a Mr/Mrs Hubbard at the Old Tannery...

Childhood Memories

These books entitled you to a certain amount of meat, eggs, fats, cheese, bacon, sugar and tea... The...

Childhood memories - Part 1: In Sussex

I remember the nights of bombing and sleeping on the floor under my grandfather's iron framed bed, but...

Brian Cundy's War Experiences

My grandfather was a child in world war two and he lived in a small town in Lancashire... There was a field...

The Escapee: A Childhood Memory of a Barrage Balloon

Then we saw it, coming towards us drifting very slowly - a barrage balloon, its restraining wires clanking...

The First Air Raids: Being a Schoolboy during WW2

During the Second World War, my father was a little boy growing up in East Yorkshire in the city of Hull....

Terry Southway's Early Memories of Bedminster during the War

In 1943I can remember living in Church Lane, Bedminster with my parents and personal events related to...

14652700 private Hampson 4th bat KSLI

My elder brother who had stayed in bed was later called up in the army. My son joined the Army in 1977...

The Evacuees

We lived at No 3 Elswick St Liverpool 8, Mother, Father, me Joyce Coleman, and little brother Robert James...

My Eventful Non-Evacuation in Littlehampton

Other war work for school children included working in the fields for about ONE SHILLING per hour —...

Missed me

A quick visit to Gillingham and Dad found another property, and we moved in.I was just 8 and the war seemed...

Evacuation To Harlow

At last, the bus pulled into a little school and the children were told to walk in a single line towards...

Wartime Ferryhill

My Dad and Grandad were both miners,my Grandad was allowed to work until he was 70 because of the war... It...

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