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"Can I Wear My 'Mickey Mouse'?"

The oft repeated scene,, went something like this: In the middle of a bedtime story - "Mummy, it's...

Air Battle Over My Head: Childhood Memories of West Sussex

My father and mother nee Constance Fyson, parted September 1938 and my mother and I came to live in...

Childer Thornton School

We were in our classroom listening to the Teacher when all of a sudden the door opened and the HEAD came in...

Starting Work in WW2 in Croydon

For a few weeks I was slotted into classes in English, History and Art all of which I enjoyed until my form...

Joyce Cleland's Wartime Memories

However, because of their work at the docks, my granda, Paddy Murray, and uncles were often given apples,...

Whittlesford Memories

My father worked at Duxford as a civilian Batman and sometime during the war he looked after Douglas Bader....

Memories of St Luke's Church, Liverpool

Miss Swift used to visit the sick in the neighbourhood carrying a basket of posies which had been picked...

Evacuation

Betty vaguely remembers been taken by bus to a house were they to stay with Aunty Minn who also had her own...

Daisy Mason's War

But you could see lights in the sky from the fires in Liverpool and Manchester and Barrow when they were...

Doodle Bug strikes Woodford Green

This particular morning was warm and sunny with a cloudless blue sky and I was enjoying playing with...

War baby

The entire village gathered for a tea party in a barn, decorated with streamers, followed by children's...

All Fall Down: Mid Air Collision Over Earls Colne

I was standing on the road outside Earls Colne Grammar School,waiting for the quarter to four school bus to...

John's Story

I was evacuated in 1939 just before the war was declared we were sent to Eastbourne on the coast in East...

First Experience of War: Childhood Memories in Kent

As it transpired, Bexleyheath was to become a point on the direct route of the Luftwaffe into London during...

Susan's Story:Childhood Memories of the North

Susan Ridley was a young child at the end of World War Two.In this article she tells us not only her...

Through The Eyes Of A Boy.N.E

I was not very pleased at having to walk over a mile into Whitley Bay, but I remember thinking that I may...

I'm a Happy Vaccy by Pat Norris

It was such a change from my life living in a tenement flat in London. I returned to London in Easter 1940....

Bananas, Oranges & V.E. Day

My Name is Joyce Raper and in 1942 was a thirteen year old living in Sheriff Hill, a suburb of...

Happy Valley: Evacuated from Kent to Wales

It wsa a cold, bleak morning,with a damp mist hanging over the river Medway shrouding the spire of the...

Evacuated to Retford by Eddie Andrews

I went to stay with a lady called Mrs. Chambers, who was very formidable, at Moorgate Retford... Retford...

Interview with a World War Two Veteran.

Interview with a World War Two Veteran. This is an interveiw with a World War Two veteran....

My Sister and I

When we were eventually evacuated to Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk my sister made friends with a girl from...

Atlantic Crossing

We had with us Mrs Helen Hebbs whose husband was a business associate of my father's... When were were...

Memories: A Nine-Year-Old in Tooting

First we had the high explosive bombs, then the fire of London incendiary bombs... At night Lord Haw Haw...

When my Grandad was a Lad

He also had to carry his gas mask in a card board box on a string around his neck.His sister had a...

Sitting Next to the Mayor

I found myself sitting next to an imposing figure, the guest of honour, the Mayor of Taunton, Councillor...