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Surviving Childhood in World War 2

RAF Leeming was known for its Wellington and Halifax bombers which the residents of Northallerton became...

A Child's view of the war: In Peckham

Mum sewed our names in all our clothes and off we went to the railway station, I can't remember which...

Starting School during the war.

Back at home in Surrey we, that is my parents and my home, had survived the 鈥渂litz鈥� which was a...

Hitler v Brighton Boy Part 2a

We saw British and German aircraft, mostly fighters, circling above and below each other... We cheered when...

Keith Underwood

The 鈥淪hort Cut鈥� was a name applied both to the Old Hill and the lane from Tutshill which was a...

Not Yet Five, A Backward Glance at Local Wartime Nurseries by Pat Ruaune

In the period 1st to 27th February 1943 inclusive, there were 838 children being cared for in North Reddish...

World War 2 and My Life in Hull

Beverley was our most frequent destination, since one of Annie's sisters, Laura, and her husband, Rob...

Cabin No 13

Hitler V. Brighton Boy Part 3a

For much of the war Varndean School for Boys shared its school with Raines Foundation School, a school of...

Childhood Memories of a Family at War (Part 2)

Father went down with the SS Ceramic, which had left Liverpool with 600 men, women and children bound for...

When the Army Came to Stay in WW2

He came back followed by an Army Officer who had come to inform us that during the air raid last night, a...

Plymouth, Bodmin,Teignmouth, My Evacuation Story

I still went to school in Bodmin on the bus, and when my brothers went off to school at Buckfastleigh, back...

From the Blitz to the Cambridgeshire Fens 1940-1945- Part 2

Ollie Goward, the Walpole Highway blacksmith and out landlord, was my hero, a huge man with forearms like...

A Schoolboy's War: In Folkestone, Dawlish and Dumbarton

I only stayed with the Houstons for about a year as, in late 1941, my Mother sent for me to join her...

Memories of a Southampton-born Lady [E.George : Part 2]

I was weeding someone's garden in a big house all day because I was buying a warship and the following...

Snapshots 2

That of course when Dad wasn't on duty at the FAP To enter a public building at night one had to...

London Blitz

About twenty years later I was in a pub in north London I was telling that tale when an unknown, to me,...

A Schoolboy's War

David Houston worked in a torpedo factory on Clydeside and Mary was a Nurse at the local army barracks. I...

A Child's War -Part 1

Three days before the end of the war, we learnt of the Atom Bomb and wrapped ourselves in our US army great...

A Bermondsey Boys War. Part 4 Evacuation to Torquay.

St.Olave's was closed in London and evacuated to Torquay in Devon, so I would have to join it there,...

ATC Adventures, then the Real Thing

I have got an idea we had something to eat and drink, but the trouble was every time a biggish bomb landed,...

Pauline Mottershead Childhood Memories

Of course your Uncle, Neville Mottram, was with the 8th Army at El Alamein and was with the Army when they...

Any Umbrellas? Chapter 3

Ken and Sid immediately prepared for action, but it was soon discovered they were a party of Londoners like...

Why am I an only child?

My Dad worked from the age of 15 to 65 at B.C. Floyds in Surrey Street, Littlehampton, where he was the...

Evacuee to ATS driver

I was 13 years old in 1939, a pupil of Ilford County High School for Girls and living at 26 ARDWELL AVENUE,...

A Stratford Boyhood 1940 - 1945

I remember going carol singing in Alveston, and in addition to the usual places where we knocked on doors...