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Gas Masks For All

My dad was too old to join the army so he joined the LDV, Local Defence Volunteers. His name was Billy and...

Village School Memories in Huntington

We lived in a village called Huntington about three miles outside York.At the village school where we went,...

Bombs in Wymondham, Norfolk

I recall 2-3 incendiary bombs falling on the Baptist Church, some bombs on the Lizard and a landmine at...

Shropshire and Wales Memories

I was 10 years old and attending St Gerrards school, in Liverpool, but in 1939 found myself and sisters...

Sheffield blitz

I was 11 years old & Geoff was 14 we were in the heeley picture house on dec.13 when a notice appeared...

London Blitz, June 1944, and Evacuation

The doddlebugs were the most fearsome weapons, flying bombs that destroyed my home and killed several young...

7th November 1943

My grandmother and Aunt were visiting my Mother and I to give me my birthday present, when the sirens...

Broughton Hall Goes To Pantasaph

The teachers and pupils were very pleased to be going back to lovely Broughton Hall....

Castleford Air Raid

One of my earliest memories of life in York Street is of a commotion outside with a lot of people including...

Liberator Plane Crash 1944

As it passed over our heads towards Heigham Road it banked round and a wing hit one of the pinnacles on the...

Glad to Return Home

When we arrived at Llandudno, my friend and I were "chosen" by a couple of middle age. Both my...

Small Events I Remember Well

As an 11 year old Girl Guide I was camping at the small village of Hayton, near Carlisle when VJ day was...

Home and Family:Evacuation from London

On the first day of the London WW2 evacuation Mother left us three children at the Holy Trinity School in...

Spies in Ewell?

We lived in West Ewell Surrey and our house backed onto a playing field and wartime allotments. Our garden...

My War As A Child.

In the shelter it was noisy with babies crying, people talking, the air in the shelter was very cold to...

Lost for Two Years

We met at School and I can remember going from Southfields Station to Woking. There are a couple of areas...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (garden vegetables and allotments)

Many of these were allocated at Stormont, in the grounds of the Parliament Buildings, where I spent many a...

My Mum and the 'Brolly Incident'

Where as her Gran then proceeded to batter him around the head with her brolly, thinking that the young...

The Footsteps

It was at sundown and I went out to the kitchen and I said 鈥榤um theres a very funny noise...

Life As An Evacuee

My friend, Margaret Dunn and I stayed with a very kind couple, Mr. And Mrs. Squires; not used to children,...

A Child's War

I remember my daddy carrying me down to the cellar on my mattress when the siren sounded... At the end of...

Derrick's War

I was evacuated to Blackpool at the start of the war and stayed at a Boarding House and went to school in...

Childhood in Kingston-upon-Hull

Our house was in Haddon Street, Hawthorn Avenue, between Hessle Road and Anlaby Road and fairly close to...

Gas Masks with Everything

Not long after, I remember being at work at Halls factory in Canada Street Belper... I remember one girl...

Collecting for Spitfire for Britain Fund

I lived in a remote village called Crank, which is near St.Helens in Lancashire:. We heard the German...

A Fishy Funeral

When his mother demanded to know what all the tears were for, it seemed that his older brother Eddie's...