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Close Encounter

It had to be in the centre of Lewisham somewhere, and must be a flying bomb. I often wonder whether the...

Childhood Memories

A bomb destroyed two cottages just out of Burcot and we children all went on our bikes to collect...

An Infant in Wartime

Throughout the war we lived in Aylott's Close, Hornchurch, about 14 miles east from central London and...

The Start

All the children carried gasmasks, they were in cardboard boxes with a string loop to go over the shoulder,...

Pre-National Health Service - Penicillin (?) in Rugby

Pre-National Health Service - Penicillin in Rugby. Now I wonder if it was penicillin in the hands' of...

Nearly Bombed as a Child in Salisbury

Although there were quite a few air raid warnings, Salisbury was spared too many bombs because the...

Silly Things We Did.

Although we didn't get much bombing my Dad Albert told us a lot about it because on some nights he did...

The Night We Were Bombed

My father and my brother stayed behind and my brother filled a bucket with water whilst my father threw...

Changing Everday Life in WW2

Food changed radically for young children, for example when I was given half a pomegranate and a pin. Food...

Formative Years in Langdon Hills

The 大象传媒 would broadcast anti-propaganda saying that V2 rockets had dropped on West London instead of London...

My Dual Contribution to the War Effort

I do hope they had a quality control programme in place, or some poor soldier was going to get very cold if...

Clifford Wynne's Wartime Memories

The London County Council were well organised and had begun to erect the Anderson air raid shelters,...

Wartime Memories

I was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in December 1939 and I have three vivid memories relating to the Second...

Bombs and jet plane:Childhood memories in Gloucester

I have always been puzzled why there was a lone plane in daylight bombing Gloucester....

Youngster's View of WW2, Part 2: V1s and Sneaky V2s

After the intensity of the Battle of Britain there was a quieter time, but then there were daylight...

A Lancashire Wartime Childhood

One of the evacuees from Manchester had never had an underslip before moving to the Fylde. The planes...

Evacuation to Somerset

Adrienne, was evacuated with her cousin Eunice in May 1941 from Southmead to Misterton, nr Crewkerne......

Wartime Childhood in Hampshire

My mother had been a nurse during World War I and took up her nursing again, while my father, who had been...

On the Home Front in Ellesmere

As the war was ending, General Montgomery and his entourage called briefly in Ellesmere on his way from...

My Mother's Story of Christmas 1940 in Manchester

In the Woodbine Street area of Salford the Air Raid Warden told everyone that they must go to the public...

1939 to 1945 Wartime Memories

After these traumatic experiences my sister, baby and myself were evacuated to Ludlow in Shropshire to a...

My War Exploits

In 1939 we got on a ferry boat called the Golden Eagle at Dagenham Dock to Lowerstoft. Back in Dagenham I...

My Evacuation Memories

It was quite a shock after living in London with all mod cons. I still have a wooden tractor that was made...

Evacuation from Guernsey

My mother's parents and two of her sisters came to Hereford as evacuees and at this time air raids were...

The day I was Biggles

One of our neighbours, Ethel McCracken, had 2 sons serving in the war; Sidney in the army and Brian in the...

A Scholar Abroad (Part 1)

During 1937 my parents made an agreement with a Braxelles Hotel owner, that one of their daughters should...