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Childhood Memories

I know that in the First World War, a Zepplin dropped a bomb on a field in the area where I was...

Childhood Memories: York during War

Clifton airfield H.Q. blown away and young men killed, their loss to mourn Their parents saddened by the...

Stars in Your Eyes

My lasting memory is of cloudless nights, when the sky was filled from horizon to horizon with millions of...

London Blitz: Childhood Memories of Walthamstow

I also remember the doodlebugs and watched in my garden as one stopped overhead and glided into the local...

Youth During the War: J E Stuart

Two raids stick in my mind during my time at prep school during the Battle of Britain, where we were...

Tess

My sister was crying as an American soldier got out of his lorry and pulled Tess on to the other side of...

Wartime Memories of Joan Thomas

Joan lived in Langton Matravers, near Swanage throughout the war years. Joan's father worked in the...

Childhood Memories

I can remember us all having lots of childhood ailments. Lots of people had their tonsils out, including...

Our Old Joanna

My Sister, Jean, was the talented one and played everything from Chopin to Three Blind Mice. Three of my...

Evacuated to Criccieth, North Wales

While we were there, we were invited by Megan Lloyd George the sister of the ex PM David Lloyd George up to...

A War Child in Bristol

This happened everytime that the air raid siren sounded and I can remember my mother holding me tight when...

Oakhill Memories

We queued regulary at the shops especially when Heinz salad cream came to the shops - we went to the...

Wartime School Days

I lived in a village in Surrey which was a 'reception'area for childreen evacuated from London. We...

A Youngster's View of WW2 in Feltham, Middlesex

I obviously survived that experience, and the next phase of our life was when we had an Anderson air raid...

An Evacuee's Story: From the East End to Ilminster, Somerset

I was born in the East End of London and was evacuated to Somerset with my two brothers and a sister when...

Childhood in West Wales

I was 6 years old at the outbreak of the war and living on the West Coast of Wales, I was largely...

Crocodile Bags

Dad was called up by the Army and posted to Sierra Leone in West Africa as A Radio Operator in 1941 and...

Living in a Mining Village

I was born in a mining village in Lanarkshire in Scotland. These boxes were a gift from the mine owners to...

An Evacuee at Eight

Unfortunately her husband was killed in North Africa at which point my mother had moved to Hull because my...

An evacuee in Groby

So back I went to Groby to another branch of the Burdett family, Mark and Sarah 9both pensioners, their...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Harpurhey by "Harpurhey Child"

In September 1939 we were evacuated to Wardle. My Mother insisted on going with us, and as three children...

One Day in June 1940

Mum and dad told us that we were to be evacuated to a farm in Aberystwyth in Wales... Mum explained that it...

Memories of Kidderminster as a Youngster During WW2

We all went home cheering and shouting "hooray for Hitler". Another bomb fell on a house at...

School Life and Evacuation in South Devon

Each village hall called a meeting and the Sheriff of Devon and Army Officers came to say everyone would...

Someone Watching Over Me

When Nellie's husband, Charlie, was called into the Army in 1939 we moved back to Blackpool and I...

Childhood Memories

Then transpired a new beginning: My mother was the one to go out to work to earn the money to keep us...