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Evacuee from Portsmouth

I came up to Dodworth as an evacuee from Kingston, Portsmouth with my sister Francesca. In the 1960鈥檚...

Reminisces of a toddler:Ruislip

I can only think that it was a raid on the airfiled and my father was both concerned for us and waiting...

A Kid in Bowes Park, North London, during the War by Brian Moore

My mum used to send pies to my step-brother who was in the Royal East Kent Regiment, she sent him parcels...

Evacuated from Leeds to Wales.

Evacuated from Leeds to Wales. The Headmaster took thirty of us to Fairbourne in North Wales....

On Hearing my First Foreign Accent by Bernard McCormack

On Hearing my first Foreign Accent By Bernard Mc Cormack Location : Derry, Northern Ireland. She seemed to...

Life Can Be An Adventure, Enjoy It

My father was sent to Farmborough aircraft factoryWe lived at Cove and going outside the front door one...

VE Day Memories

On the 8th May, 1945 my cousin, two friends, and I were joining in the celebrations which were being marked...

Evacuee: North London to Mickfield

When the V2 rockets started coming over my sister, brother and I were packed off to Suffolk to a village...

Clever Hands: Working in a Dress Shop in Paisley

I particularly remember a military style jumper with short sleeves, piped with red, double buttons down the...

What's That Toilet Doing Up There?

All I recall was this toilet in the air, half of the house had been bombed & demolished... My father...

Childhood Memories of the East End Blitz

The bomb or doodle bug had fallen at the end of the road the junction of Cleaver or Clever Road and...

My Grandma's Memories of the War

My Grandmother lived in Hitchin, in Hertfordshire during World War two. Hitchin was a small town and it...

Bombs Gone

Then the first bomb burst onto a house almost directly opposite ours, which we found out later had caused...

Living in WWII as I remember it

There was one story of the boys taking down the chimney of the outhouse, where the coal was locked up. The...

Child's View: Waiting for the war to end

Down our garden, hidden by brambles, was a stuffy damp air-raid shelter where grandparents, parents, baby...

Childhood Memory of VE DAY

My Father was a Borough Engineer and Surveyor and in a reserved occupation,as he knew the lay out of vital...

Evacuation: From West London to Dorchester

We had no idea where we were going but our Head Mistress had a sealed envelope which contained the name of...

A Summer's Day Nightmare, 4/9/1942

I was so happily playing on Torre Abbey Sands, close to my Dad... At the top a man suddenly picked me up...

My Story: Childhood Memories of Camden Town

Hello this is my story of life in Camden during the war, i stayed home with mum and my little brother, i...

My Experiences as a Child in WW2

We would go out into the garden with dark skies overhead riven with searhlight beams and already the sound...

Boarding school in the War

I was 13 at outbreak of war and a weekly boarder at Belmont School, Wood Lane, Falmouth. There was one...

After Dunkirk: Childhood Memories in Bristol

I still have the French francs he emptied into my hands as a memento when he left.I learned much later that...

Safe and sound in Central London

Then the whole school went to Hungerford,Berks and I was billeted with the Butchers of Co-operative and...

Look Out: Writing to a Brother in the Merchant Navy

However the biggest disruption took place with the departure of my brother, George Johnstone to the...

Childhood in Kent

I was seven years old, school was already closed and I was in the back with dad and mum doing a bit...

Almost Taken for a Spy!

My mother had used the trunk many years before, on a cruise to South America on the ship...