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Evacuation: From Leyton to Brentwood

I was evacuated from Leyton London to Brentwood on the 1st of sept 1939... The engine did'nt stop and...

Almost A Channel Islander

My sister was also fostered out to a family in Bradford, so we were split up for most of the war years....

In Cambridge and Birmingham

My sisters went to one family and I to another who had an older boy and a younger girl of their own....

The Clock On Brownlow Hill, Part 2

We jived and we waltzed and had quite a ball On the pavement outside what once once the Chinese Dance Hall....

My Earliest Memory

Running into the kitchen from the garden of our house at devonshire Way, Shirley I excitedly delivered the...

War in Sanderstaed: A Five to Seven Year Old's View

I was 5 years old watching my dad prune the roses in our garden when he told me that he would be...

The Rabbit

One bright cold moonlit night, when one of the older girls was returning from a dance in Haywards Heath...

The Start of the War: Dorking

The town of Dorking in Surry, is only twenty-four miles from London, but it was deemed to be a safe area,...

'Make Do and Mend': A Schoolboy's Experience

During the Second World War, my father was a little boy growing up in East Yorkshire in the city of Hull....

Ken Cockshott-Snapshots of War.

My Mother told me to go to Groves and Whitnall Brewery at Regents Bridge, Manchester was burning. Became an...

Childhood Recalections of WW2

I can vividly remember the searchlights criss-crossing the night sky looking for German aircraft and the...

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz in 1941 by Shirley Cawthra (nee Beardwell)

German civilians were apparently so incensed by RAF bombings that they hung RAF POWs from trees... I...

A Saturday Afternoon

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in June 1944 and I was playing ball in the garden next door with Ray...

Evacuation: London to Llandaff

We had luggage labels on, and I took a teddy with safety pins stuck in him - I was allowed to buy...

Evacuee:In Hertfordshire

After some time a rather small lady arrived, she looked the children over, pointed at my brother and I and...

Childhood Memories: In Huddersfield

My brother was a Bevin Boy. Peter & Rita Harper....

Ivy and Sadie's Story as Told by the Children of Strand Primary School: Memories of Belfast

Ivy and Sadie's Story as Told by the Children of Strand Primary School: Memories of Belfast. But Ivy...

George Remembers Some of the Prisoners of War UK

I remember the German and Austrian prisoners who made toys for the children of the village... Two...

Working with the enemy

Nearby we had a prisoner of war camp which had both German and Italian soldiers in it. I never had any...

Barbara's Memories of 1939-1945.

I remember going on the train to visit him and the Station Master calling out ‘Cherry Halt’...

Taking in Evacuees

We had relatives who lived in London Dolly was my favouite beloved Aunty, Stella was her daughter, my...

A Few Memories of War In South Norwood

I lived in South Norwood on the outskirts of London with my mother. We would visit my old aunt who lived in...

Great Yarmouth and Thereabouts

As a child I have memories of the Germans bombing Great Yarmouth, and being evacuated with my mother and...

Evacuees

Rose and her sister Jose were first sent to Chester where they were both very happy. She starved Rose but...

The Day War Broke Out

I can remember the bombing of the fields around Jenks' farm at Northwood. Everyone thought they were...

Bend the Genes gently, or, was Lysenko right?

We called it "Going to bed" but it meant retiring to the garden Anderson shelter with another...