´óÏó´«Ã½

Four lost children

We four children left Greenwich in one coach with our two cousins; my mother, the 2 year old and my...

The milk stand

In the days of WW2 milk from the farm used to be put into churns. These churns were then put on iron...

A child in Gorton during World War Two by "Nick"

Nick’ was about eleven years old and living in Gorton during World War Two....

Partizans

1941 I was 17 WW2 had hit Greece and making its way over to Crete, , the Germans soldiers now occupied the...

The Runaway Brother

It was awful really leaving my Mum, but I had my elder brother with me so it wasn't so bad....

The School's on Fire

I remember the Germans dropping incendiary bombs around Town fields in Audley... At the weekend, me and my...

My Siren Suit

Someone had given my mother 2 old coats, from the 1920s, they were long from the shoulder, my mother wanted...

American Bomber

At the age of 5 years old I was evacuated in 1940 from Newcastle upon Tyne to Whitehaven. It was confirmed...

Evacuation

I was 9 years old in June 1944 and had been evacuated from Chelsea London in 1940 to escape the bombs.I was...

Child's view of air raids on Bristol

I was home from school for some minor illness and when the air raid sirens sounded I went down to the...

Soldiers in Southend

Once a German fighter plane was diving towards us and I can remember seeing the flames along the wings as...

Food Shortages in Grenada

I worked in a grocer shop, ran out of flour, sugar, salt and rice in around 1943 - boats couldn't...

The Sheffield girl

People think you were alright in the countryside but when the German planes were flying back or being...

The Nazis Bombed My School, Sheffield

The ‘glow’ in the sky had not been Sheffield steel works it had been our school....

Memories Of A Childhood in Wartime Warrington by Olive Scholes

At night-time, if the siren went in the early hours, our family went downstaris to the kitchen, where there...

"Got Any Gum Chum"

I lived next door to a bakery which I think was called Blamche's in Belmont Road, Hereford where there...

Woolley Moor

In October 1939 I was about to start at my new school – Derby Grammar School but as the railway line...

Evacuation: Letchworth

My school Princess May, was officially evacuated to Letchworth, in Hertfordshire. The day after I had been...

The Yanks Come to Town by Bernard MC Cormack

The Yanks Come to Town by Bernard MC Cormack...

German Submarine Attacks Oil Refinery in Aruba

And suddenly we had bursts of light from torpedos that came from a German submarine, and we saw the ships...

Fallen Soldier

My father Lewis was killed along with his two friends on the 2nd or 3rd March 1944 in Station Road,...

One Child's War: Running Away and Games of Cards

Games of cards, down the air-raid shelter and collecting schrapnel, which was pieces of bombs or rockets......

"Have you got any Gum Chum...?" Childhood Memories of Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent

"Have you got any Gum Chum...?" Childhood Memories of Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent. They seemed to have...

Disturbed Children

At Meon Road Infants school at the end of the war we were told that a boy from Europe was coming to...

The Hazel Basket

The Hazel Basket...

Youth Club Visited the Bevan Boys

We went to the nearest school eventually and I remember two classes from Agnes Road junior girls school...