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A Chapter in Exile: Memories of an Evacuee in Eccles, Norfolk

As our straggly line of children walked down the lane back towards Eccles Hall we were suddenly aware of...

Peace and War

It was said that the Germans bent the fins on their bombs to give rise to the whistle... Sometimes the...

Ann Dear

Still I waited, listening to the dreadful news on the wireless, Malaya and Singapore had fallen, Rangoon...

Children of the Park

The park itself had extensive woods and beautifully kept lawns which surrounded a decent size lake that at...

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Forgive Me For Not Shaking Hands

Not only did the staff have to cope with the patients but they also had many problems from constant air...

Wartime Memories of a Civilian

Dad, in the Specials, had to leave us and go home early, and Ken went with him as his schooling was...

Wartime Memories: London Blitz

The sky was very bright one night, following a big incendiary raid, reflecting the fires from the...

A Small Boy in Southwick

The pavement underneath the lamp was used for 'Itchy Dabber' - you would slide a heavy stone or an...

Evacuation from Manchester to Catforth near Preston Lancs - August 1939

After drinking their tea all the helpers then got back on to the 鈥榖us and off they went on their way...

Wartime: Childhood Memories of Leeds

Mam, Dad and I stayed at grandma's for tea one winter's evening. Alice, Harry and Ann had the...

From London to Somerset and back again

My mother's sister had already gone down to Hatch Beauchamp with her children several weeks before, and...

Rod's War: Childhood Memories of Shawforth in Lancashire

I can't be sure whether uncle Jack, one of dad's brothers, was in the army or the Home Guard. Colin...

London Child: Terror on 'Black Saturday', and Defiance Against Hitler

All night long the dogfights overhead, the whistling of sticks of bombs hurtling down, the ear-wrenching...

War Through a Boy's Eyes: In Liverpool

German bombing of Britain did not begin in earnest until August 1940, nearly a year after the war started,...

Childhood Memories of the Second World War: Durham

These were just a few which were forever assailing our ears,especially in the newsreels at the pictures and...

WW2 Experiences of a Hertfordshire Schoolboy

Most of the shrapnel was steel fragments from anti-aircraft shells but there were all sorts of bits of...

Woolwich in the War

One of the German planes landed in the back garden between Ann Street and Robert Street, in lower Woolwich,...

The Shaw (Schevitch) Children During the War Years

When I was still evacuated I hardly went to school but we had separate schools from the local children,...

A Reedham Boy's View of the War

Back at Reedham after Christmas, night raids were in progress and many incendiary bombs were dropped in the...

Girl at War

The next day, our evacuee returned to London with her baby, and Yvonne and me became kinds of evacuees...

A London Child in Sussex

It was very moving with the singing of German Carols, particularly Stille Nacht, but one of the boys stole...

Evacuation to The West Country

We took him to be a Naval Officer but he turned out to be a bus driver named Alf Poulton. Alf Poulton...

Recollections of the end of the Second World War by David Reid

My Aunt Peggy had an air raid shelter in her garden at Thornhill, Dewsbury that was built privately by my...

A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF EVACUATIONicon for Story with photo

Before I left home from my holiday, only a few days before I left my parents received a letter from the...

The World War 2 in Norwich as Seen by Stanley

This same day my Sister, Granny, 4 year old brother, and I went along Drayton Road and at the spot where my...

War Memoir: Evacuated to Kent and Wales

During the school holidays, which we were not allowed to spend in London, I was staying with Joan and Duggy...

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