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Growing up in the War

My grandfather had a grocers shop at Broomhill, Sheffield. I joined the Wombwell Youth Group where I met my...

Rationing and Bananas

I could only remember the sign on a fruiter's window which said 'A Hand of Yellow Banana's-...

A Child's War

I can rememeber singing 'Ten green bottles'. Another thing I remember is taking a tin or jar to...

Allan's First Day at School

My grandmother, Beatrice Carter was a tiny lady of four foot eleven, with dark hair, dark eyes, and tonnes...

My Experiences of the War - An Evacuees Story

We were evacuated to Hassocks near Brighton. We all got evacuated to a place called Blechley near Milton...

Jim Cleland's Wartime Memories

However despite our family home being just yards from a munitions factory in Belfast, my mother, Ena...

Families

For my part, I missed my two elder brothers, both having to eventually join the RAF just at the time when...

Clyde Valley in the Blitz

7yrs old and Rollerskating one day along The Esplanade with her younger brother in tow, she was horrified...

My War: Evacuated from Harwich to Thornbury Part 1

IT was getting dark when arrived in the town of THornbury Gloucestshire,we had travelled right across...

Just Another Day during the Blitz

I was nearly 4 years old when ww2 broke out and living in Lydford Road in Paddington W9. one day during...

Evacuation Break Up: A Child in Bradford

In 1940, eggs, butter, sugar, meat, tea, jam, biscuits, cheese and milk started to get rationed but she can...

Memories of a Frightened Lad

After the V2 Doodlebugs started bombing London and our vicinity my father thought it was time to send me...

Bombing In Islington & Evacuation

Once I moved there I could have got a job with Morris Motors but decided not to becuse money was tight at...

Private Evacuation.

This came about because our next door neighbour in Dagenham, Mrs. Carnaby, was a Yorkshire woman and I went...

The Trauma of Evacuation

He would get the bees and wasps, pull their wings off their bodies on a pin and run after us with them......

Brixton Experience

We used to walk up there every night with our bedding and they used to have the entertainers there, every...

Swansea burning

Later in life I checked with the history books of the period and, indeed, Swansea Docks had been very...

My Uncle Bob's War: In Hull

There was a lot of bombing during the war in Hull and his dad built a brick bomb shelter with bunk beds...

War Through the Eyes of a Child in Surrey

I stayed together with one of my friends at a house with a pig and got blamed for opening the stile door...

So This Is War

I tasted freedom! and remember thinking "if this is war, its not so bad". One day my mother, small...

Wartime Memories of Evacuees in Long Buckby

Standing that evening at our gate with my friends we watched evacuees from a school in Shoreditch, London...

Doodlebug attack in Enfield

Coming towards us, high in the sky, we heard and saw the doodlebug heading our way....

Ken's story

We traveled from bristol to Truro by train, there was lots of other children being evacuated to cornwall......

In the Shelter: Childhood Memories in Birmingham

My school was not evacuated but I was sent down to Gloucester to stay with my Aunt Katie, that is until my...

A Day to Be Remembered

Bank Holiday is supposed to make you glad When I think of mine it always makes me sad On that Monday way...

Near Misses

Having got off the 118 bus at the "Horse & Groom" in Manor Road we proceeded to walk up...