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My First Solo Prayer

We lived in Bromfield, 2 陆 miles from Ludlow... And on this particular day after his opening,...

The Sailor 'Digs His Heels In'!

Her father did not want his daughter to suffer unease or to be 'marked' by a smallpox vaccination...

Evacuation in World War 2

We all sat in a school room where people had to pick us out, but we were the lucky ones because we...

Returning from India

Father was stationed in India when war broke out but in June 1940, was sent back to England in the Suez...

What Was it Like When You Were Evacuated?

We lived in Spital Square in the East End of London, since the air raids became heavy, my Brother, Bill and...

London Visit

We had arranged to meet in London... On the way back to the station, an air-raid alert went off and we...

Giants at War

My first childhood memory, aged 4, in 1940 is of sitting on a bunk in a rather damp cellar under my...

Evacuation and the Declaration of War

Because of the air-raids June, her Mum and Grandmother were evacuated to the countryside... Her Dad stayed...

My First Train Ride

I was 7yrs old in the summer of 1940 when my 13yr old sister Vera and I were evacuated from Ramsgate Kent...

Childhood in Broom, near Biggleswade

When I was about 10 years old and living near Holme Mills on the River Ivel, there were Italian Prisoners...

Memories of Evacuation

My uncle took my grandmother who lived with us- my mother, my sister and I- to Newton Abbot, Devon, on 2nd...

St John's to Leicester.

At St. John's Primary School I used to go out and watch the barrage balloon when it went up. Reproduced...

Our Little War Effort

Staffordshire County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. We kept pigs...

Irene`s Story

One day I remember hearing lots of noise outside the window facing the River Thames, on looking out I saw...

A Day In My Life

The next think I remember was finding myself laying out on the front lawn with cuts on my face and legs and...

Dad's Army

My Father was in a reserved occupation during WW2 ,and lived and worked in New Milton and Sway as a...

A Childhood Memory of Liverpool in Wartime

I was a small child during the Second World War and lived on Queens Drive, West Derby, Liverpool... I...

A Sudden Change

Life was very quiet- no petrol, just an old bus to Wadebridge, the nearest town;two grocer's shops...

Four in a Bed: A Mixed Children's Ward in Burslem

Mum and Dad made me up a makeshift bed downstairs....

Happy Endings

My name is June Small, I was born in Dick Whittington hospital Highgate, London on 12/6/35 the third child...

Wartime Schooldays

All Margaret's uncles were called up for action and she had 6 uncles... Jimmy was in the Royal Navy...

The Day in 1940 I Witnessed the Death of a German Pilot

One day coming back after the all clear we saw a dogfight in the sky above us and the German plane was...

A Switched View of the War

Winie lived in several places in southernLondon for a month then with her sistter in Yorkshire Iles for a...

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

Most of my toys were inherited from Moore, my brother, who 6 years older than I, had been given a new...

Farm Life In Ballycastle During WW2

An evacuee boy from Belfast worked on a neighbouring farm, but stayed in my granny's house. When the...

Should We Evacuate? -Myrtle Tabel

They would have walked out of a fairly new house in Amherst, and it would have meant leaving all their...