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Colin Boot. Young at the Time of War, School Family, Education

Name: Mr Colin Boot Location of Story: Leicester, Walnut St Title: Young at the time of war, school,...

Collecting Shrapnel in Hyde Park

During the war I had a little dog called Gipsy who I loved to take walking in Hyde park where I collected...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (air raids)

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2. Although the air raids on Belfast and other cities...

The Blackout

Entering in thro' the Ministers Vestry - I had to walk the full length of the building to get to the...

Child of the Blitz:Sheffield

Because this was not diagnosed for a few weeks, it was suspected that the ankle bone had become tubercular...

A Young Boy During the War

The next day I remember picking up bits of burnt newspaper, and as you know when paper is burnt the ink...

Childhood Memories

I was 2 when the war started.We lived in Addlestone in Surrey, which was near the Vickers works in...

Billeting Officer

After about a year evacuees started arriving in Stoke-on-Trent, they came mainly from London and Colchester...

Riddings a Cauliflower and Confusion

In Riddings during the war when the incediary bombs fell all the men of the village ran around in circles...

Leicester Memories

Having been born in 1934 I was very young at the start of ww2 My memories would start around 1941 My father...

Encounter with a German Bomber

We were sitting upon the peak of a hill next to the bungalow when the loud roar of an engine, the roar...

My Experience of WW2

Halfway through the film a bomb fell very close to the cinema and part of the ceiling fell down, the...

Wartime in Barrow-in-Furness

I was a child when the war started 1939, I was 4 years old,we were living at 15 Stuart street on Barrow...

Evacuation to Harbury

As soon as World War 11 broke out,just before my sixth birthday, I was evacuated and I remember being lined...

The Minor Inconveniences of War in a Faraway Place

As an 8-year-old boy at the start of the war, son of an Italian father and English mother I was aware of...

Purley Evacuee [P.Jenner]

Several London boroughs had arranged for children to be moved immediately from the city and saw a long line...

A Happy Year

When I was 11 years old, I travelled with my sister's school and three retired school teachers who had...

Doodlebugs and Shrapnel

Borne in 1938 I was just a titch during the Battle of Britain but I reckon I still had the best collection...

Evacuee: From Salford to Morecombe Bay

In September 1939, I was evacuated to Grange-over-Sands,on Morecombe Bay, from Salford, near Manchester....

Amy's War: In Liverpool

The headmistress came to the house at Christmas with bars of Cadburys milk chocolate which was a real...

War Memories: Of the Liverpool Blitz

(1) My father an A.R.P warden was out nightly during the blitz.During the air raids I was in the dark...

That German Overcoat

He was in France and the Germans were on his tail.A young lady took him into her home and hid him... While...

Fish Tanks and German Planes

At nine years old Lilian went to St. Mary's School in Manchester... The water had wet a lot of books...

The Scout Badge for Air Raid Shelters

My brother and I went to Kent to stay with an Aunt. In fact, a V2 landed on the Church and Scout...

Father Comes Back from the War

I was a young child in Canvey in Essex where my mother worked as a pharmacist. Ernie Benson was our...

Orphan Schooldays

We were also told to flatten all tins to stop escaped prisoners using them for drinking.We had snap...