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The Balham Underground Disaster

When I was a young boy I remember going down the Underground at Balham station on the Northern Line during...

War Time Experiences in Great Yarmouth by Joan Andrews

When Mason's Laundry got hit my mother did all the washing for the boys....

Childhood memories of wartime Edgeley by Ken Heath

I lived in Edgeley, and my Godmother lived in Chapel Street, and a bomb dropped in the middle of the lawn...

Close Shave.

My mum said,"They have got us bad this time". Eventually when the all clear siren sounded we...

When the Bombers Came Over

We only had a few high explosive bombs dropped on Kettering but I was told the German bombers kept a few...

A child in Newcastle Upon Tyne

My step-dad, who was too old for active service, continued to work at his daytime job but then worked with...

Air Raid Warnings

I was 3 years old when the war started.I had just atarted infants school when the Germans started to send...

Wartime Memories

My husband was on the railway and so was this Cockney and that's how we got all friendly... My husband...

Childhood War Memories

Dad was a firewatcher at Penistone Reservoir. The nearest relative who was in the war was an uncle, he was...

Jewish Schoolgirl Life in London [R.Lesser]

Jewish Schoolgirl Life in London. I was put in another school in Ruislip, it was the time when children had...

Unexpected Arrival

A lady who worked at the Bristol Aircraft Company at Filton came to live with us. With all the shortages,...

Hiding Under the Table

I can still envisage it in my mind and we worked out I was only one at the time. I can also...

War Memories: My Childhood in Southampton

Going with my Mum to visit my Dad in Barrhead hospital in Scotland and the train being full of soldiers......

No Joke

As a 13 year old, listening to Mr Chamberlain 's eleven O'clock broadcast on September 3rd 1939, I...

Uncle Jim Part 2

His nephew Terry Davey, who can just remember Jim, recalls that he would make model aeroplanes too... These...

My Little Bit

One of them took us to the trench, showed us how to use the field telephone, gave us a pair of field...

My Memories

My mother, grandmother, brother and myself then moved to East Bergholt where we lived for two years and...

Eggs at Eastbourne

I was evacuated to Eastbourne, Portsmouth, Buxton, Crewe, Chelmsford and Atherston. The museum at...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (Rationing)

Each autumn my brother and I were sent 鈥渢o the country鈥�, by train, with a basket each, to buy...

Under the Table

Because she was pregnant with me my mother was evacuated to Wales in order to vacate her away from the East...

Away From the Bombing

My father was working on extensions to the airfield at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire which was quite peaceful...

Near Misses in Clayton

The Clayton area in Manchester was a target for the Luftwaffe because of the local chemical and steel...

Enjoyment and Relief: Childhood Memories of Walthamstow

Apart from a short break for evacuation in Buckinghamshire, i lived with my parents George and Marie...

A Memory of WW2: Evacuated from London to Suffolk

When WW2 broke out I was eleven and on holiday, in Newmarket, at my grandparents. They suggested to my...

Close Call with a Focke Wulf 190 in Brighton

A Focke Wulf 190 made a low pass across the park and dropped a 1000 pound bomb at a shallow angle. The...

Neighbourhood Fundraising

I also received a postcard of thanks from D.C. Price from an HMS stationed in Anglesey. Mum and I knitted...