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Childhood Memories

My Grandma took in an evacuee called Phyllis, which I remember. My father was in bomb disposal, he gave me...

A Sheffield Child in the War

My mother has flasks of tea made up ready in case the sirens went....

Wartime Memories: Lingfield Village School

As we approached Lingfield village school, the siren sounded and, immediately, a German plane flew over...

How I Lost My Brother Harold

My eldest brother, Harold, couldn't wait to join up and enlisted before he received his call-up papers....

German Bomber

Mine lived in Gosford Gardens, near Clayhall Park... As we left the house we heard the engine of a German...

The Day a Bomb Dropped on Our Neighbour

When I was about four, a bomb was dropped on the bungalow next door... The American soldiers billetted at...

Bombing of Yeovil

One evening, I must have been about 4 years old, I went to a fish and chip shop when we heard a...

Air Raid Bombing

If you heard the whilstening bombs you knew you were ok but if you didn't you knew you weren't. If...

Home from School

I was home from school, probably on some excuse or other i had gone to the shops at the end of the...

Doodlebug Encounter

During the latter half of the war my family were living in a requisitioned house at Ealing Common,West...

Wartime School Days

It was assumed, quite correctly, that pupils’ mothers would undertake the task of converting thick,...

Sister Oona

Children were taken from London into the countryside... Some children who were from the East end of London,...

Potato Picking

Towards the end of the war, the German and Italian POWs were allowed out under escort to work on the local...

A Few Memories of the War in Crawley

The pilot off loaded his bombs — one landed on the post office, 2 on the Church of England school off...

I Was Eight Years Old...

I remember how the iron railings around the school and the gardens were cut down, and that I went to fill...

Childhood Memories from Bury St Edmunds

I live in Bury St Edmunds and recall how as children we used to try and make kites out of the silver...

Air Raid and Diptheria

In 1942 when I was seven we children were immunised against Diptheria. At some stage of my six month stay...

Life at home

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

A Long, Long School Holiday in 1940

I was a pupil at Norwich School in the Cathedral Close through the war years. When the war began the school...

Memories of a Bournemouth Boy [Anon.]

I remember bombs dropping in Hannington Place, Boscombe and Gloucester Road, Boscombe. During the war there...

Marilyn Stobbe - The Day My Life Began

When I was 2 and a half years old and my sister six months my mother took us to live in Nescliffe...

wartime memories: A Child in London

My sister was 3 yrs and I was 2yrs when WW2 started. my earliest memories were of going into the street in...

The Blackbird

I can still remember it as it if were yesterday - the ring itselt was about an inch long and 3/16" wide...

Our Leicester

When he left the army after his injury he worked in engineering travelling the world... Then I started...

What Goes Around Comes Around

On Sunday mornings, I would pester my Father to take me to "Perry Barr Park", to see the guns and...

Childhood Experience in Lewisham

I lived in Lewisham during the war with my 3 brothers and one sister and our mother, we went to Morden...