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Child's Delight

Child's Delight...

A Child's Wartime Memories of Croydon

Nat was invalided out of the RAF Jack was a Cpl in the RAF Philip was a Major in the RAMC Benjamin...

The Boarding School Evacuee: Relative Safety in Cornwall

It was intended that I should be a weekly boarder at a local boarding school, but my grandfather, who had...

Glenn Millers Dolls House

Working at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ meant my grandfather got to know a number of the personalities and celebrities of the...

Moulton - A Village Near Northampton

I went to the village school with my sister Jean and remember the gas mask drill and going into shelters,...

The Last Goodbye: A Pilot from RAF Waddington, Lincs

Sergeants A.G.Carswell,RCAF: C.E.Clemens, RCAF: J.W.Martin, RAF: H.C.Hipson,RAF: E.J.Phillips, RAF,...

Armagh Childhood War Memories

My father home on leave from the Royal Marines was magic: my uncle, a Somme Vetern, sharing his concerns...

Two Evacuees' Stories

We benefited from the cups of tea etc which were really for the soldiers.We went to Stafford and the...

Growing up in WW2B

Food rationing was bought into being and everyone was issued with a book of coupons of various colours for...

Fleeting Memories Before the Age of Nine

Towards the end of the war my mother and my sister went to the end of Clarence Road Bognor Regis to watch...

The Anderson Shelter: Beneath the Bombers in Surrey

Mum, and big sister Squibs, asked the men what they were supposed to do with the unwieldly and heavy strip...

Hop Picking in Kent, and a Stricken Bomber

It was also the time of the Battle of Britain and so there was always a great deal of action in the...

The Blitz on Swansea Docks

I lived in Swansea during the war with my mum, dad and two sisters, my third sister wasn't born till...

Unusual Evacuees

Going by recent events in Europe it was expected that bombing of places like Manchester and Liverpool would...

Rural Cheshire In Wartime

As we lived in the countryside you may think that we had a quiet time but we had a few bombs in...

Bewildered Days Of Childhood: In Chadwell Heath

I suppose what interests me about the war is the way those years are able to stay in ones mind, years that...

Ghost Train

My mother sat me on top of the pillows in the pram, then opened the door onto the black night. Soon, the...

Newburn and Vickers

I didn't as I was too busy watching its dog fight — the first German bomber was disabled and...

Christmas 1940 and How We Discovered that the Real Santa Claus was really Uncle Dick.

Christmas Eve 1940 came upon us and it was decided that Dad would unchain the grating to the coal-cellar,...

Childrens Memories as Evacuees

No because I had my sister with me but she felt homesick. Our mother wanted us back as my sister was really...

Whistle In The Dark

The nightly air raids by German bombers returning from targeting nearby Liverpool forced my mother and I to...

Wartime Memories: Manchester

Most people had a shelter built in their gardens and covered with soil and grass but my father cut a...

Huge landmine near Ipswich cemetary

The bomb disposal squad were working on the bomb for a week or 2 and we were still at my aunts when...

Evacuation

I was evacuated with my older sister Margaret from Wellington Road School, via St. Michael's Station,...

Fish and Chip Supper

Tony Morley was 9 and living in Shiregreen Lane when the following incident, which he remembers vividly,...

They also Bombed Wormwood Scrubs

I was born in 1935 in Shepherds Bush London. because of the heavy bombing a lot of people were killed and...