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The Christmas Tree

I became conscious of a soldier walking into the kitchen, stepping over me and towards my mother, who was...

Evacuee Nightmare to Wartime Haven

At this time my mother worked in the canteen of Baddersley Colliery where she was the pastry cook....

Home and Away - Evacuated From Kensal Green to Wales

Living in Kensal Green we were not far from the railway station and next to the station was the ammunitions...

Evacuated from Brighton to Ripponden

I was evacuated from Brighton to Ripponden in 1941 at the age 7 and was there until 1944....

Evacuated to Ireland

My dad took us to Eire in August 1940 – being neutral Eire was taking in many children... During that...

Byker at War

My first direct memory was a Sunday in September when a lady and gentleman dressed in dark blue uniforms...

The Perimeter Fence

A tall Perimeter fence ran the length and breadth of Maydown Airfield sealing off from the rest of the...

Pig salting in Shropshire.

I helped my uncle to salt the pig. We rubbed it with blocks of salt, with saltpetre on the bone joints,...

Working for the Glamorgan War Agricultural Executive Committee

We were sent out in pairs to work for various farmers and we all became very good at stooking, pitching,...

One day in Berlin

My Grandad always told me stories about WW2, this one is special.When he was a child he lived in Berlin and...

The White Cliffs of Dover

My other uncle was a petty officer in the Royal Navy. Another memory I have is being at school listening to...

Baby Saved in Greenford

Greenford was near to all the ammunition factories on the Western Avenue and also RAF Northolt and so was...

Childhood Memories of War in Leeds

Anyway, it was on display in Leeds City Centre somewhere, and Dad took me along to see it on Sat 14 Sep...

The POWs and Us

Like so many families we were evacuated from the city to get us out of harms' way for the duration.I...

My Childhood: Cornwall and Surrey

We spent alternate periods in Port Isaac and Tadworth as the war ebbed and flowed but we were in the middle...

A Child's View: Life in Chadderton

One Christmas after a lot of bombing at Manchester my friend and i went down to the town the morning after...

My Wartime Memories in Glasgow

From our dining room window I used to watch MTB and DUKW hulls being towed out of the builder's yard...

Bombed out in Shoreditch

After the air raid we all went back into the house, had a cup of tea, I went to bed and my...

A Child During the War

We went back to our home in Warminster, an army town, and because our house was fairly large we had two...

A Refugee for Evacuees & Soldiers in Congleton

I wasn't at home at the time. I did a lot of helping with these evacuees — particularly with the...

Leominster Memories

Bateman's Buildings was where the Americans did something with cooking; my aunt was engaged to a...

The Evacuee

I remember the school produced a school magazine called 'The Evacuee'. We put our own words to...

Aircraft Hangar Party

The photograph is of many children in an aircraft hangar at the famous A.V. Roe factory,Greengate,in...

Should We Evacuate? Kaye Le Cheminant

My mother was English and naturally would rather have gone to England to ‘do her bit’ for the...

Unwanted

I was 12 when war broke out on 3 September 1939, living on Waddon Road in Croydon, with my parents, younger...

Brenda Jones' Story

Unfortunately he caught bronchial pneumonia and had to leave this position and went as a batman at the...