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Oil From The Sky

When we went into the garden droplets of oil the size of half crowns were falling out of the sky... I also...

Bryan Bell's War

We all had to go to the shelter the Victoria tunnel A boming raid happened around Byker Apolo Cinema was...

Boyhood Memories

I was living in Norwich, where I have lived all my life, by Bowers Avenue....

Starting Work at 15

When I was told, I would be a messenger, from Lother Road school to Bourn Park Bridge. All of s kids were...

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Gas Masks

My baby sister was issued with a Mickey Mouse gas mask which, because she was a big baby with a big head,...

Bogey Man

He was black and bloated having been in the water for some time.Most comments from the grown-ups were that...

Story of an Evacuee

Alexander Wilson is 68 now and this is a long,long time ago when he was 4... So Alexander had to get...

Mum's Teddy Bear

The docks in Liverpool were a prime target, and the Wirral was apparently, regualry bombed, because of...

Evacuees In Waverton

At the beginning of the war I was a little girl aged 7 years attending a local primary school about 5 miles...

Being in Trafalgar Square on VE Day

The bomber pilot, Douglas Badar and all of his crew, that went off in the war, left from the aerodrome just...

Childhood Memory

One day, there was a loud thud ourside, unpon investigating my mother found a large crater halfway down the...

Memories of Evacuation

With my mother and my younger brother and sister, I left Morden Park for Wrexham. I had wonderful freedom...

Silver Paper

As I was born in the second year of the war my memories are that of a small child, my parents worked...

Wet Cat

I was evacuated from Brighton to Lancashire when I was 6 and my brother was 4 and of course my Mum said...

A Near Miss

Luckily a man in a pub called the Bull Dog came and pulled us in - he saved our lives. One day...

Evacuee:Gibraltar to London

My mother along with other women and children and men not considered vital by the British Government,...

Mice!

During the war I was only about three but I can still remember wearing a red siren suit nad a Mickey Mouse...

Milan in War:Childhood Memories

She saw Mussolini and mistress strung up before the Cardinal of Milan had orderedd their removal. My...

Plane Spotter.

All of a sudden it turned around and headed towards our house and began to fire it's guns My brother...

Plane Crash in Haddington ( East Lothian Scotland )

He crashed landed on the land 鈥 A Shepard went to the crashed plane with a gun and two crew from the...

鈥淢achine Gunned鈥

I was 9 and my brother was 13 and we wanted it because it was souvenirs and shiny... You could see the...

Precautions in Salisbury

There was an ack-ack gun and searchlights on the cricket field and the little building that was put up as...

The Healthiest Children in the Street

Then we'd get our mother's bottle of Eno's Fruit salts 鈥 a fizzy powder 鈥 and...

The Best Pint Of Beer

One night during heavy bombing I was pushed under the kitchen table with my Mother and a lady I called...

Bombing: Childhood Memories of Sidcup

She has told me many times that she only knew the war as a child - she tells of the trips down...

LONDON AIR RAIDS

The first thing I can remember was having to get out of bed to get into the morrison shelter when the buzz...

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