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Disjointed Memories: A Child in Hull

- my parents were both deaf; our next door neighbour who was an ARP warden was given a key to our house...

In A Hole

I suspect Diamond Road ws in line with one of the airfield runways. As the war progressed aircraft would...

Evacuated from Tooting

I remember being on the platform at Victoria Station with a crowd of other children... My step mother,...

Dancing Doreen

Children were encouraged to enterain and I started dancing and did ballet until I was 16. Mr and Mrs Poore...

Memories of Air Raids in Norwich

We lived in Cromer, my grandparents lived in Norwich when Norwich had been raided, I was about 3 or 4 years...

Evacuation to Alford

My sister and I went to our school along with a lot of others to board a bus with our labels attached,...

Our Interview

He lived in Swaythling, Southampton for much of the war, but was evacuated to Tichfield, near Fareham for...

My War: Childhood in Ipswich

It was in 1940 when I was five years old that my dad joined the R.A.M.C. and went to Africa and Burma...

Taking an Unexploded Bomb Home

In the spring of 1941 there were many German bombing raids on Cardiff... Mr Joshua grabbed the bomb rushed...

Blackpool Evacuees

Eleanor's mother had a boarding house in Blackpool, she took in 36 evacuees all from Manchester Grammar...

Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy

The Americans were based in Cornwall and many of them worked at 鈥淣ickle's Garage鈥� at the...

Schoolboy Memories: In Briton Ferry, Neath

This is a memoir written by Mr.Brandon Jewell and typed by Annette Jones of Neath Port Talbot Libraries and...

We Did Our Bit

I was at school during the war; at the Wyggeston Girls Grammar School, which was one of the Leicester...

Temp

The date 15/16April.I lived in Oxford Sreet,No34,with my parents.I was 15 years old.The sirens had sounded...

Air Crash in Combs Village, Stowmarket.

Air Crash in Combs Village, Stowmarket. A Wellington bomber had crashed coming home from Germany....

Yanks: CHildhood Memories of Northern Ireland

I would have been four or five years old at the time and my brother 18 months younger. White men in...

Evacuees Story: From Croydon to Bognor Regis and Back

We as a family, my three sisters and mother, Dad stayed at home, were evacuated to Bognor Regis, to a...

A Child in the War

My Mum is holding my hand as I'm about to leave and travel to Bury St Edmunds... Mum missed home and...

War Baby

His name was David Mc Leod he was one of a family of 13 born in Cowdenbeath Fife.I guess I still have...

On the Move Again

On the Move Again...

My Childhood Years in a Hospital in Middlesex

The one that hit the church throw a big lump of stone into the air and it landed on the roof of...

Thurleigh Airfield

As we shared our school in Bedford with Owens school in London, we had the afternoons off to cycle around...

Evacuated to Luxury by Leslie Hyams

From there we were taken to Chorley Woods Village Hall. It turned out that he had given me some prize Dutch...

It's Not a Bomb...It's Lightning!

I was evacuated at the age of 9 from North Tyneside and was sent to Keelney, Northumberland. My brother was...

Absent Home Guards and German Invasion in Warwick Bridge?

It was a Sunday morning and I was delivering the milk to a lodge of Warwick Hall near Warwick Bridge. Our...

A Wartime Childhood

Staffordshire County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. I remember when...