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A collection of stories from Somerset

On May 11th 1941 a bomb landed in Mrs Gamlin's road, killing a girl and her father....

A Schoolboy in Wartime Stratford

The bus was responsible for an accident I had: the Stratford Blue bus came across Evesham Place and...

Only an Evacuee Part 1

Initially, as could be expected, there was friction between the village boys and we evacuees, they shouted...

Maggie Fink Childhood Memories -Part 2

Probably not, thinking about it, and if you kept chickens you weren't allowed eggs, because you got...

A Child's War -Part 16

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...

Dorothy Taylor- How I saw the second world war part 2

We rarely got new clothes except at Co-op ‘divi’ times, when Mam would collect the dividend...

Wartime Memoirs of a Lark

There, military or civilian police would ensure the disposal of Germans to a POW holding wing, or in the...

Evacuation and after

The long snake of children and teachers arrived at Bow Road Underground Station and were shepherded down...

A child in the blitz

In Southampton, from the fire escape stairs at the back of the hotel I watched planes attack the...

A Child's War -Part 4

He had very good treatment on the raider by the naval surgeon, and this continued on the Regensburg, and...

Extraordinary Schooling in WW2 - Part Two

Yarkhill in Herefordshire is in the heart of rural Britain, in the rain shadow of the Welsh Black Mountains...

Recollections of a London Evacuee in Worcestershire

The war situation then took a turn for the worse with the German Army invading Belgium, Holland and France...

Evacuation - A Novel Aspect

In 1938 at the age of eleven, I was admitted to John Watson's School, a small non-fee-paying...

My Story Of My Young Life: Evacuated from Guernsey

When the Germans had taken France the Guernsey States ordered women and children to be evacuated to the...

Memories of a Child (Part1)

On arrival at Nana Smith's house, Mam collapsed in an extremely undignified heap and was only revived...

One Boy's War

After about an hour or so, we arrived at a village called Alrewas where we were escorted into a place...

Dorothy Bartle Chepstow Memories

Of a night time, Mum always used to look through the window to see that they were blacked out properly over...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 6

7 THE SUMMARY OF MARLENE'S STORY — In London, she details her early memories of being shuttled...

A Child's War -Part 14

In February following the terrible resistance met in trying to take Saipan, the next target nearer to Japan...

WW2 When I was Five.

And I know Fred's wife and my mom used to worry while they messed about in the workshop. Dad was...

Recolloections of the Second World War part 4

With the deterioration in the weather, the daylight raids stopped and the Germans settled down to night...

The Depression and World War Two: Part 5: Childhood Memories

It is likely that Britain standing alone against the Germans, Italians and later the Japanese would have...

Memories of World War Two

Some nights we were up and down several times so in the end Dad put a mattress in the corner of the...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: Air Raids and Shelters

We wondered if my father was all right and then a voice came through the letterbox, it was one of his...

Dorothy Collis's Story Part 3

There was no let up with the air-raids, and Violet, as I mentioned before was becoming more and more upset,...

Jim Humphreys- Part 1 of 2

The enemy realised the importance of this searchlight and tried to bomb it on many occasions but were...