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Memories of Evacuation

I lived with my parents and brother in Stoke Newington, London, and attended N.Hackney Central School... As...

Having Evacuees Among Us

Lots of evacuees came from Portsmouth... The Headmaster and one teacher from Portsmouth Grammar School...

Evacuation from Guernsey to Bradford

We locked the door, put the key on the windowsill and set off to register at the Parish Hall....

Gas Masks and Blackberries

British Aluminium had a factory where they made the spitfire near where I used to walk... Mother died at my...

Early Teenage Memories

I left school at 15 and became a fire service messenger for the AFS - Auxhilary Fire Service in Mill St...

The Spy I Never Knew: Childhood Memories of Kendal

My Grandad lived in kendal during the war and during that time he met a young boy of similar age called...

London and the Blitz

My mother told me this story about the war.We had been "bombed out" and were living on a London...

Patricia Nichols (nee Murphy) Evacuation Experience

When Patricia was 6 years old, the children all went from the catholic Filwood School, Knowle by coach to...

Life in a Sanatorium, Norfolk

I was admitted to Kelling Sanatorium in North Norfolk. My mother had a long journey — Dereham to...

From evacuee to air gunner

So it was a great experience -. My crew consisted of 7 man- officers: navigator and bomb aimer, wireless...

A Close Shave

Houses demolished by bombs and left derelict, my father travelling to Redditch for the night shift at HDA...

Growing Up in Wartime Liverpool

I was aged five when the war broke out in 1939 ,the youngest child of nine .my three elder brothers were...

Air Raids

I was a pupil at Bingley Grammar School at the time and we all trooped round the edge of the playing fields...

My Fortunate Childhood

When I pass through it now, it brings back memories of making model airplanes out of balsa wood, the good...

Surprise in a Suitcase

We went on the long journey to Rothesay in Scotland... Now Rothesay is a very hilly town....

Evacuation to a North Devon Farm, 1939 - 1944

I have memories of a harvest supper and a concert party with the local doctor singing a song from Noel...

Evacuating to Cornwall

My mother decided I would be safer away so suggested I went to Cornwall... We took much longer getting...

The Tin Box

Mrs. Kathleen Nevin was 9 or 10 during the war and she shared these memories with me of her childhood in...

WW2 London

On one particular day the siren had sounded so I went to play in my friends shelter in the house opposite,...

Crashed Planes and Oranges

One morning Father woke us up and said look out the bedroom window, a supersortress big plane had crashed...

My Early Recollections of Evacuation from London to Olney, Buckinghamshire

I remember as a 4yr old child being put on a train in London. I had a small label tied to my...

Air Raids During Evacuation

Often at night we could stand on the front lawn at the farm and watch the 'barrage balloons' being...

Mums: London Blitz

Jimmy and Lenny begged mum to stay and wanted to just sleep in their bed. Thank God for our Mum, her...

Should We Evacuate? Stayed to Look After Grandmother

I used to walk up to the Hautes Capelles School, and a certain day came along when I went with my mother,...

Seeing Planes as a Boy

I looked up to see the sky filled with bomber planes towing gliders along behind them... Yet another event...

A Wartime Child: Bunny, Nottingham

Our family lived in the village of Bunny, in Nottinghamshire. My brother, 2 sisters and I, would often see...