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A War Baby's Memories of Bexley, London and Yorkshire by Edward Roy Skinner

Warm shrapnel I was a war baby born in 1939, we were living in Albany Park in Bexley....

Hard Times and Good Times During the War

My dad was a miner in Stanley; he also did voluntary work for the ARP. Beamish Hall was the family home of...

Childhood in Bradford and Nelson.

The thing I vividly recall is when my headmistress at Hanson School,Bradford, when I was eleven, announcing...

Evacuee Memories, Bellingham

We were slit up, I was sent to Reedsmouth and my sister went to Bellingham, both in Northumberland... My...

Air Raid over Chelmsford 鈥� 13 May 1943

There was a noise at the back door and there was Cyril's father in his uniform and steel helmet who had...

Being a kid in wartime Brighton

Opposite the park in Preston Road, were large houses filled with Canadian soldiers. I remember that one day...

A Change Of Clothes

Mum and I, with Blanche in the pram set off to the top of 25th Avenue. I did as I was told...

Wartime Entertainment

My childhood was spent in Stockport, Cheshire, which is now part of Greater Manchester... We were to become...

A Yorkshire Child's View of Air Raids

The men were standing against the walls, the women were holding the babies and us children sat on the...

After the Wedding

The intention was for my Mother, Father and I to stay for a week but on the night of the wedding we...

Bombed in Camberwell and Evacuated to Leicestershire by Terence Davies

My Dad was working at Battersea Power Station but he came to see us and met a friend from London and he...

Evacuated to Darwen by Patricia Hayes (nee Roberts)

Evacuated to Darwen by Patricia Hayes. My twin sister Betty and I were evacuated with the school to Darwen....

WW2 Memories of Josephine Jukes

I was 11 years old and was evacuated to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, from Erdington Grammar School to join other...

A Boyhood In a Wartime England; Part 3

On one occasion in Dean Wood, Mr McLennan, calling the class register at four p.m. after a long afternoon...

Friendship

Grandad kept chickens, geese, cows, goats and pigs, he also had a small allotment and orchard... He showed...

Evacuation From Romsey To Swanage

Evacuation From Romsey To Swanage...

And I was in the Brownies - Part 5

I had spent the war years playing with my friends and living with a loving family.I hadn't really...

Missed the boat - Allowed to Sleep-In

So I went home, went to bed, and the next morning when I woke up, it was sunshine, a lovely day,...

'Shoot the child, then yourself'

A group from the Shoreham worked on the aircraft for a week, taking everything off it to lighten it and it...

A Boy Remembers The Home Front

One day in March 1941, after circling high over the town, a German bomber dived down and attacked the...

Farming camp at Linkenholt

From there we boarded a bus, which took us to the small village of Linkenholt, about eight miles to the...

Hitler on the Roof

Ireland's Corner, we went to in Saintfield Road 鈥� I can remember the name of it. Ireland's...

A Toddler's Evacuation

Granny Symes鈥� - the eldest sister used to give me bread and margarine with sugar on the top! A...

Happy Memories of the Shelter

The shelter had bunk beds in and my mother would read us Winnie the Pooh stories. A birdie with a yellow...

A Night in a Community Air-Raid Shelter When Leeds was Bombed

Leeds was lucky escaping air raids during the war. The floor was thick with soot and what furniture we had...

Our First Taste Of Country Life.

One plane was very low, you could see the head of the pilot and when we got home the house next to...