Although born in Bedford, by 1940 I was living at little Paxton,going to St. Neot's for School. I...
Around the area where we lived in Liss, Hampshire, there were many military camps and so on D Day thousands...
At that time we lived in Mary Street Darwen,and our evacuee, called Lily Lister,came from the Manchester...
At 3pm Sunday Torquay was attacked by 21 Fokker aircraft, each carrying a 1,000lb bomb and armed with...
It was never bombed as it was believed it was a landmark to help the German's bomb Bristol... My father...
We were told as children that all the bells would ring if invasion was going to happen... We emerged into...
Then started what I learned later was called the phoney war.I cannot remember how long it lasted but...
I was five years old and my Mother and I stayed on in Corrie when my Father returned to our home in...
Mum went back to London: she said it was just as bad in Exeter so she might as well be at home......
My sister and I were sent with my mother in a train load of similar groups to live in a small Devonshire...
My dad put big pieces of 4x2 wood on the outsides of the windows, but the Council came along to tell him...
My brother who was 7 years older than me, would never get up and used to stay in bed while the air...
One night while all us six kids where in bed my mother shouted upstairs telling us to get back to bed and...
The boys, Harry and Len aged between 9 and 10 years, were very different.Len was a know-it-all but Harry...
My earliest memory is of being held in my father's arms, looking out of our landing window, while he...
At the age of 12 I was evacuated with my mother and baby sister aged 4 from the school in Bethnal Green,...
The only time Hyde was bombed was the night of the Manchester blitz... When I was 16 I wanted to join the...
We were standing on a grassy verge by the side of the railings — I don't remember precisely...
These were all Southern Railway sheds, this being our favourite of the four railway companies owning the...
In one of these weeks a marquee was erected in our village sport field and some lady musicians came to give...
She used to get orange juice fromm the Welfare... The 'Welfare' was in the Epworth Methodist...
My first memory of the war was September 7th 1940 and I remember that my sister and me were sitting under...
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