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Sink Or Swim

I went back the following day to collect a new form but the forms had all gone and had been allocated to...

American Air Force at Langford Lodge

As a small child living in a Co Antrim village, called Crumlin, close to Langford Lodge in Northern...

Surviving in Streatham

My father worked at Smiths Industries in Cricklewood making aircraft instruments.At the height of the...

Bombs in North Wales

I was born and brought up in Wigmore, Herefordshire, but I had a 9-month-old child when the war started,...

The Second Master at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton

On Mondays he wore the Army Cadet Corps uniform. Tuesdays and Thursdays it was the Air Force Cadet...

Shelter

My mum and dad were As a child I remember being taken down to the Anderson shelter in the back garden. It...

Mixed Experience of Evacuation

In 1940 during the Blitz I stayed for six months with Mr and Mrs. Mannings who had a bakery in Lentisbeare...

Village in War Time

So they suggested that they all went to Eaton Bray for safety, as the eldest sister lived there. But the...

Being a Child in Wartime

We were wrapped in blankets supplied by our mothers — we would sit on the benches learning our tables...

Our long summer Hoilday

My most vivid memory was one June day in 1944 when I was nine years old coming home from Alexander Junior...

'Admiral Lord Jellicoe': Trains from Thurso to London

I believe that this was a forces train -steam of course- that ran every night from Thurso to London.Naval...

GASMASKS

It must have been a nightmare for the teachers trying to keep gasmasks and owners together... I remember on...

I Went to London

I was only a baby in arms but we went to Sundury in Middlesex to my Aunty. There we stayed until one...

Evacuation to Wylam

In 1939 I was evacuated to a Girls school in Wylam... The only time I left the house was to visit soldiers...

My Story

I remember being very excited to receive a tiny doll which I call Charlie. I had to wait until I was seven...

Glider Formation

As a small boy aged around 6 I have a vivid memory of being woken one summer evening by my Uncle and...

My Nan's Story: Evacuated to Middlesborough, Near York

Middlesborough was a village near York....

My Wartime Memories

They came in D's and E's and E was twice the value of D. Each month there was an announcenent of...

Two Sides of the Coin. A True Story. The Year 1941

The Year 1941 by Eileen Barker. We were taking a walk over Earlswood Common My two little nieces and I,...

Teenager in WW2

At the outset of the war we went to school part-time but the animal-lovers among us trudged the 2 miles to...

Evacuation: London to Bedford

My brother was 10 and I was 9 and we went with our school to cricklewood lane station to be evacuated with...

Evacuation to Mansfield

I was evacuated to Mansfield to have the baby with more mothers who were expecting... I registered the baby...

Food was short: Evacuated to Newcastle-under-Lyme

My sister, Pauline, and I were evacuted to Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1943... I remember searching dustbins...

Bedford-War Memories

Bedford-War Memories...

To Ashperton and Back

In 1939, when I was 12, I was evacuated from Birmingham to Ashperton, which is near Ledbury. He and his...

Being Clouted

My Aunt and Uncle ran a pub there, and we kids used to play outside. I was sent out to collect firewood,...