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A Wartime Baby: In West Yorkshire

My dad was called up into the army soon after and my memories of him during the war are of kissing a...

London Blitz

We stayed at a pub on the side of the River Kennet... As he carried me across the road he looked up...

Harry the London Evacuee

During the war our school Deansfield Rd School Eltham decided to evacuate its pupils. As the school was...

Watching the War from Wymondham

We lived about 20 minutes by bike from the US 3rd Air Division base at Hethel and I would often cycle down...

Happy Days

During the war she had her mother with her, 2 brothers and also her friends, they were rationed on lots of...

Should We Evacuate? Gordon and Len

Gordon Hotton and his sister were at St Saviours School. GORDON HOTTON and LEN LE RAY....

Evacuated to Ilfracombe

I remmber it well, It was June 1940 We all got on the bus out side our school At New Addington we...

Evacuated

We left from Gateshead East station, full trains of kids... In 1940 I went of to my mothers cousin in...

An Eventful Evening

On March 16th 1941 my sister and I went to our Grandmothers off Pennywell Road... The bodies were then...

Doodlebug in Henham

The house was around four hundred years old, my father then picked me up and a lamp and started to go down...

Evacuation: From London to Essex

I suppose my first memory of the war was when we moved to a house just around the corner, which was smaller...

Memories of a Child: In North Sunderland

They bombed the railway between Seahouses and Chathill - it was thought they had been bombing the Tyne and...

My Recollections of D-Day 6th June 1944: Air Activity Over Colchester

At about 05.30hours on Tuesday 6th June the Johnson household was woken up by the noise of a siren coming...

Education during the War

I attended Eller Green Road senior school near Townsend Avenue, but it closed around 1940-41, during the...

Sent Away: From London to an Oxfordshire Village

The wife was Austrian and had an Austrian friend in the village. I was disliked by the village kids and...

A Child at war - in Kent

I was 7yrs old when war broke out, living with my family in a village called Kemsing, near Sevenoaks in...

Up to the Fields

I was sixteen when the Yanks came over, after that it was jitter bugging in the Plaza and the Orpheus where...

Staying In during a Raid

I lived in Wallasey, on Merseyside with my parents... We had to go to the local Church for shelter and a...

Evacuee's Story

I visited Suffolk, Berkshire too Yorkshire,Cornwall, and the sea was blue. In Suffolk we picked pounds of...

Olive Wilshaw's Childhood Memories off being evacuated

Olive and her brother were evacuated from from Manchester to Chinley in Derbyshire three days before the...

Portrush Defenders

Steven was only eleven years old in 1942 when his mother decided that he and his four brothers should move...

Nicking Donuts

My Dad was ten, full of beans but lacking donuts. Donut tummy ache afterwards but they tasted sweet Dad...

School Experiences

After an air raid on the Tyne we went to check on my great aunt and uncle. Margarine was running down the...

Loss of a Family: A Bombing Raid on London

I was born in 1933 the youngest of 8,7 boys and 1 girl.When the bombing started in 1940 I along with 2...

Evacuation Day

My Nan used to keep a button in her sewing basket, she said it was special to her - I asked her...

The Hut That Saved My Life

Before the war, my parents had a caravan and hut at Pevensey, Sussex... - - - When the Flying Bombs...