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Hazel's Memories (part 1)

By the time I was fourteen nightly bombing raids, and daylight ones too meant we spent every night in the...

German Bombing

After the bombing dad came mighty quick to pick me up in his upright Armstrong Siddeley... She was a superb...

Evacuees and Stew!

We had evacuees staying with us for the whole of the war — the Grandmother and most of the children...

Childhood Wartime Memories of Fulwell, Sunderland by Mrs Doreen Royal

My husband lived in Denbigh Avenue, Fulwell and was bombed out in August 1940. Hole where bomb landed still...

Pennies For Luck by Natasha Drewry

Being a very warm-hearted little girl, she ended up giving all her pennies away to soldiers in the hope...

The Many Uses Of A Morrison Shelter!

The centre piece of our living room was the Morrison shelter. ALthough it was a large structure it was a...

Bouncing bomb at Bishops Hill, Ipswich

It was a bouncing bomb that fell at the top of Bishops Hill, bouncing over Holywells Park, striking houses...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (Evacuation)

4 EVACUATION It was after the second air raid that I was evacuated to my grandmother's seaside house at...

Almost Everyone Else Had Gone...

One thing, of course, that was brought home to me, soon after the Germans arrived was the fact that I'd...

My Evacuation Story by Betty Greenhalgh

I went to Holy Trinity School Harpurhey....

Friend or Foe?

We soon learnt to distinguish between out planes and the German ones.The later mad a noisier deeper...

Air Raid Shelter: Dancing, Singing and Sandwiches in Birmingham

When the air raids were very bad, my Mother's Sister, her husband and their 5 children would travel on...

Evacuation: Oxfordshire

We used to make toys: soap-box type carts with wheels with ball-bearings, spinning tops and tanks out of...

Oranges and Apples

We used to go to Sheffield, Gleadless, to see my Aunt Kathleen....

Evacuation

We also got trainee teachers who had been in the army, and they were not good as teachers... When I left...

Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside

First time on a Midland Red coach; the great thrill of seeing the sea and its vast sandy beaches;life...

Frosty's Tale from Sheffield

Told to Bruce Funnell by Brian Frost of Sheffield. One weekend around 1944/45 all the family went to visit...

My Memories: Air Raids in Atherstone

It had a bit of a bed for us kids to sit on and for curtains we had old sacks! Where we...

New School

The foundation stone had been laid by the Chairman of the Governors, architect's drawings were on...

Rosemarys Evacuee story

Most of the girls were chosen first, and we waited till the end and there was one girl left by the name...

Potato picking in Gloucestershire

I attended Weston Super Mare Grammar School, and in the August school holiday in 1944 when I was 14, most...

I did like to be beside the Seaside

First time on a Midland Red coach; the great thrill of seeing the sea and its vast sandy beaches;life...

The bomber that didn't quite

We ran to the bay window in time to see a German bomber drop of couple of bombs at the railway line...

Childhood Memories from Bournemouth

One night my Dad and I stood in the doorway while a raid was going on watching the incendries drop in the...

My War: When the Balloon Went Up, South West Essex Technical College

Being a nosy lad I went down to the and asked them why our balloon was not up....

Cold and Afraid.

I was just a small child,walking home from Bourne junior school.I had just started there.It was around...