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Climbing Snowdonia and Honeymooning on VE Day

We travelled from Lime Street Station to Carnarvon, North Wales and finished up in Lambert, which is at the...

A Walk Around the Square: Sheringham, Norfolk

The square was down Alexander Road turn right into Garden Road, a rough sandy stone road about 300 yards...

A Firewatcher's Helmet

Although my father gave in to my wish to be with him he insisted that I wear a firewatcher's helmet....

A Child's Memories of Wartime Liverpool: Sheltering from the Blitz

My Grandmother, a working class lady, had a china teapot of which she was very proud. Just as my...

Evacuated to the Hop Picking Fields: In Kent

It was a lady named Mrs Flynn, whose three grandchildren were with her; two little boys and a girl named...

Mytholmroyd Childhood

In Halifax we had evacuees, some were from London... We heard flying bombs towards the end of the war,some...

A Child's Memory of the War

One job I had was at the Grand cinema in Newport and saw lots of good films. I met Steven Murray and...

Wartime Childhood in Wolverhampton

I also rember going with my younger brother to the health clinic to fetch our ration of orange juice my...

A Wartime Child of the New Forest

We were very close to Beaulieu Aerodrome and my parents and Aunty and Uncle entertained many of the RAF...

Coconuts by Post

I remember that as soon as war was declared, he rounded up my brothers and the neighbours, and dug a huge...

Shelter Memories

I have picture of my mother, standing in the garden holding the lid of a galvanised dustbin over her head,...

The Happy Evacuee

My luck held and my sojurn in County Fermanagh was happy, carefree and indeed influenced my life forever....

The Changing Face of Childhood

After a long frightening journey, surrounded by strangers, we arrived at Pontyclun station and were given...

A Spoilt Lunch: Raid on RAF Kenley.

I was 12 years old and with my mother and father and my young brother Ian we were " house minding"...

Evacuation in 1944

My father stayed in London with my elder brother, one of my sisters was in Nottingham where she got...

Omagh prepares for D-Day, aided by Sheila O’Neill

My Catholic grandmother, Mrs Baxter - a descendant, surprisingly, of a Scottish Presbyterian planter who...

Hartup Wartime History

I was one of six boy choristers who sang with the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s live performance of a Nativity Play from...

Ron Burgess as a Boy in Wartime Bedford

After School that afternoon taken by my mother to see the devastation in Ashburnham Road and Midland Road,...

Tales of a Birmingham School-Girl

A beautiful moonlit night, the search lights were criss-crossing each other, the German planes high in the...

War Years at Grandmother's Home

We were self-evacuated to my grandmother's home in Stroud, Gloucestershire... My only experience was...

A Few Memories

Then one night we were asked to leave and go to the school air-raid shelters at the end of the road and...

A Boyhood in Wartime England; Part 1

I had two sisters, Jean and Molly; Jean was eleven in 1939 and Molly was six and we all lived together on...

Putting my Foot in it

Just prior to us setting off my aunt had taken me to see Disney's ‘Snow White’, the scene...

Sandy's War Memories

My family lived in Alyth for one year, then in 1939, my mother, sister and I moved to Kirriemuir, where we...

A Child in Wartime Grangemouth.

I was a child in Grangemouth in Scotland during the war... There was an RAF Station at Grangemouth, and Max...

Crash at Homer Lake

The plane seemed to be attempting to fly below some electrical pylons when all of a sudden it plummented...