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May Blitz

A Mr Wolfenden, who ownws a pawn shop on County Rd was our ARP warden and he would check on us at...

Evacuation

I remember, in the late evening when the London blitz had started, kneeling on my bed with my brother, aged...

A Child of the War: Memories of Bournemouth

I have very few memories of him but a lasting memory is being taken in his arms and thrown up into the...

At the (Sea) Front

There was the distinctive drone of the "Doodlebugs", the unmanned bombs, directed up the Thames...

Memories of a Little Girl

Because although the machines could make the nets they couldn't do a selvedge on either side. I do...

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Stapleton Road by Trinity Road library near Piggy Lane... My older sister stayed a couple of nights and...

Long John Silver

My father brought home one day 13 chickens although because one was lame, we decided to name this one...

A Few Wartime Recollections.

One of them went into the army. he was sent to Dunkirk, to take part in the landings but was injured before...

My Brother-in-law [Spitfire Pilot], Tyne and Wear

I was six when war was declared, but my elder brother and sisterand brother in law were volunteers as soon...

Sooty Times in Wallsend

My sister crided for her milk bottle and my mum returned to the house... I also rememeber a land mine...

Mercy Run

My cousin that we were staying with set out to run from Ovington to Prudhoe. Some time after a magnificent...

Schoolboy Memories

We used to get free school meals because Dad was in the army. When bombing in Sheffield started we went in...

My Wartime Youth: A Thwarted Doodlebug in Ewell

Living in Ewell, we were bombed and had one of the first doodle bugs which exploded in Riverholme Drive,...

Childhood in Newhaven

I lived in Newhaven in Sussex during the war, although I was evacuated for a while to Thurleigh in...

Americans in Manchester

I grew up in Manchester during the war, and have recollections of being carried at night and seeing the...

A Rare Treat: Sausages in Walthamstow

On one occasion, my mum had been able to get some sausages for our midday dinner... In the shelter we just...

Borland's World War II Part 4

HMS Cyclops, the submarine supply ship, had been a German ship in the First War and Lord Haw-Haw said that...

Run Rabbit Run

Sometimes we didn't have time to get to the air-raid shelters so the teacher would say "get under...

Our Playgrounds were Bombed Building Sites.

The center of Swansea,had a three day blitz.Anyway,when I was growing up,The bombed buildings were my,and...

Fetching the baby's milk

My friend Rene Cook and I one day had to go and get her Aunt some baby's milk and we weren't...

West London Blitz

The air-raid siren was situated immediatly outside our front door and had not sounded before an oil bomb...

Out of the Clouds, Dagenham

I had arranged to meet her from work to go to the Princess Cinema on the Ripple Road to see a James...

Evacuation to Wales

In 1940 I remember being evacuated from Deptford Broadway with my sister Rene, who was approximate 6 months...

The Broken Sten Gun

I was evacuated as a baby to Penzance but we went back to Canning Town... While I was in Morecambe, I...

Different views of London at War

We lived in Thurrock, and could watch all the bombers going in to London, and then see our fighters come in...

Banana

Another boy brought a banana in, his father was in the navy and he had given it to him. The banana was...