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The Youngest Evacuees

I remember my Mother telling me how after hours of travelling to Clevedon in Somerset by steam train she...

Betty Taylor's Story

Father was a chemist and he used to get issued an extra supply of ground- nut oil and sugar that he used...

One Man's Childhood Reminiscence

My mother and the 3 children, you know I had an older brother and sister, were evacuated to a small town...

Being Evacuated

On arriving at Ellistown school, Doris remained close to her sister and they were chosen as a pair to go...

Life for Evacuees in WW2

Dorothy's family ran the New Inns pub in Madeley, Shropshire and because they had plenty of space there...

Schooldays and a Sad Loss

One night following a loud bang and darkness, Dad rushed out to do his Air Raid warden duty, subsequently...

Childhood

Having to go into the Anderston shelter in the garden after we heard the air raid siren or to the Morrison...

Village Life

One Sunday during the middle years of the war a family of four ar five caught the train from Birmingham and...

Life on a Devon Farm

My Father panicked a bit I think, because within the week our furniture was store, most of our toys...

The Bomb That Didn't Go Off and Others

WWII (2) My Auntie Marie, 5ft 4ins, and my Cousin Ivy, 4ft 11ins, were fire watchers together in Breamar...

Evacuation to Oxford

I was only 5 when war broke out and, with my brothers Eric who was 7 and Gordon 11, we were evacuated...

Wartime Schoolboy

Wooden bunks were provided for sleeping,and at the height of the German air raids, it was normal to go down...

luckyann's war story: London Blitz

I lived with my parents and my baby sister in Brockley, South London... However, my sister was so poorly...

Weald House

On Friday 30th June 1944 a terrible disaster happened at Weald House a children's evacuation home at...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 8

It was here, in a Sunday School class, before the theft, that I first came to meet John and Ernst, the...

The Only Incident That Day.

If you don't know the area, Waddon is situated almost centre between Croydon town centre and what was...

Evacuation: London to Teignmouth and wakefield

It was unfortunate that the Germans actually dropped some bombs on Teignmouth that night and we all spent...

Childhood Memories of the War

Then I was evacuated to Port Slade, near Brighton where I was the only child there. In London Mum used to...

Bombings in Walker 1940 and Evacuation to Bolton Gate,Keswick

These bombers started to bomb the houses on Bath Street and Welbeck Road when the gunners spotted the...

Alone, Young and Vulnerable on a Farm in Poland

In 1939 my stepfather was forced to go into the Polish Army. In 1944 my stepfather was taken to the Russian...

V1 Mystery Solved

When I got back to school, I was amazed to see a long line of people,all dusty and some with bandages going...

A Young Evacuee in Wiltshire by Catherine Ford

I was an evacuee in Devizes in Wiltshire in 1914....

Bognor 1939-40

Obviously after a family council it was decided that the womenfolk stay down in Bognor rather than go back...

Mother's Sadness: Bombing Kills Child in Carshalton

My mother, brother John and I lived with my grandparents in Carshalton Surrey... The air raid warden...

from school to university

She went to school in the South Kirk vestry to be taught Latin and French by Peter Watson, as Webster's...

Shrapnel was Stuck in the Doors and Walls

The milk was in churns and we ladled it out at the door....