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EVACUATION TO N. YORKSHIRE

In July 1944, my mother was evacuated, taking me and my brother, from Morden in Surrey... Our enforced...

Evacuation

During the blitz of London in 1940, an incendiary bomb, dropped from a German airplane, struck our house...

Childhood and Married Life: In Nuneaton

Her parents and brothers slept in the dining room where it was dry and her and her sister went to either...

Ashmore Street, Belfast

My mother, my 15 year old sister and I at 11 years old were living at 7 Ashmore Street. Coombe Barbours was...

Life at Home

My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...

Jack's VE Day Memories

There was no hero's reception for escaped prisoner of war Jack Edwards when he walked into Truro city...

Gone Forever

I was ten years old at the time and at the bottom of our road was a wide crescent with a wide...

Nightmare of WW2: My Evacuation Story by Ann Rees

Nightmare of WW2 We left Ealing Broadway station, not knowing where we were going, even our parents...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Heaviley by Ann Birch (nee Simpson)

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Heaviley by Ann Birch. My Dad was medically unfit for active service, so...

Hull Fireman鈥檚 Daughter

Although living in Sheffield now, I was born in Hull and was aged three years when the war broke out. I was...

Vivid Memories: Evacuated from Kent to Brighton

My Grandma was evacuated for a short time, from Kent to Brighton in Sussex. During the War my Grandma...

Hard Times

We lived on the outskirts of Birmingham so we didn't see much bombing, but the few stray bombs we had...

Purple Dye Took Well!

My dolls pram was very old and would be an antique if I had kept it. At home we didn't go to...

A Tale to Remember.

One night in 1940 she was half way through a tale about two little pigs hiding in a wood from a wolf...

Del's Story

I was 10 years old and because of the shortage of beds I had to sleep with an old boy of 78,...

Our Family Miracle

My brother and I had been evacuated from SE London to Dorking in Surrey... He explained that a customer,...

Nana and Grandad's World War Two Story: Evacuated to Hemel Hempstead

After a wile all the children got sent to a new family my Nan went to a lady called Mrs Tibbles, she...

A Little Boy's Memories of World War 2

A lad from Brierfield, from singing in the choir at St Lukes Church Brierfield, to winning a singing...

My First Memory

I see a 3 year old sitting in a high chair in hospital, scrubbing the table with a piece of apple and...

In the school air raid shelter

Cardboard boxes did not last long on schoolboys shoulders and enterprising shops sold metal canisters for...

WW2 in Staines as a Small Boy

I was then packed of with my nanny to my Grandmothers in Cardiff while Mum stayed on to make sure that the...

Doreen's Evacuation

The rest of the family were seperated except for Mum, Dad, my brother, my sister, and myself... Dad stayed...

Those Were the Days: Evacuated from Birmingham to South Devon

We were evacuated from Birmingham to South Devon because my mom was blitzed out....

Evacuee Memories

In 1941 I left Wilsden in London as an evacuee to go into Wales... Two years later my Mum arrived in Wales...

I Came Back for the Horses

I was sent to a couple, the lady was a Shropshire lass married to a special constable and had a son of...

Julia

Bonfire smoke curls lazily skyward while an elderly man "digs for victory", glimpsed by a small...