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Memories from N.I

Memories too of Donaghadee and RAF rescue launch based at Harbour, sinking of s.s Troutpool, stranding of...

Rings From Aircraft Glass

As children we used to peer through their windows to look at models of aircraft, Spitfires and German...

London to Helingsburgh.

There was a land mine that fell on Tollinghdon Road, Holloway, London, just next door but one. We travelled...

Scottish Childhood Memories

There was also an incident near the Forth Road Bridge when German bombers were bombing Rosyth dockyards and...

Coconut by Post

I collected rose hips from Holywells Park, and took them to a little shop which was in “The...

Memories of Evacuation -Mrs J. Roden

I lived with my parents and 1 sister in Banstead, Surrey and attended Banstead Primary... In 1940 my sister...

A Strange Bathing: Blitz in Hillingdon

Her mum then ran back to the house to pick up her sister, Celia, and took her to the shelter - only...

Nine-year-old Slave Evacuee: In Devon

After being evacuated to Devon on 1 September 1939, on my third placement I was moved from Sheldon to...

Evacuee in the Country

We were sent to Fingeringhoe in Essex which, given it's proximity to the garrison town of Colchester,...

Aunty Under The Table

It was a moon lit night and the German bomber mistook the coast road for the River Tyne. They bombed local...

Night Raiders

One night, when the sirens went off, our next door neighbour, who was a tall and well build woman, dashed...

A Child in World War II

After the phoney war I was put to bed each night in an Anderson shelter at 6pm — my mother stayed...

A Sunny Sunday, Shoreham-by-Sea

My mother asked me to go to the local pub to tell my father that dinner was ready... I heard a noise,...

School Dinners

The teachers had a golden opportunity to make sure we ate our school dinner, still provided despite the...

School: Childhood Memories of Lewisham

Home Front in Yaxley

I went to school in Yaxley and remember the attractive boxes that the gas masks were kept in - we used to...

Memories of Evacuation

In 1939 I was evacuated with my sister from Brixton Hill to my aunt's in Gamston, near Nottingham. The...

Evacuation - London to Devon.

Evacuation - London to Devon. The train full of children and teachers took fourteen hours to get to Seaton...

Little Boy in Short Trousers

We all assembled at my brother's school at Kennington Oval, and travelled by tram to Clapham Junction,...

Schoolboy Memories Part 1

So far as I can remember the leaflet with the royal coat of arms was given to each of all the children...

Evacuation Decision Changed

One of my elder brothers did evacuate, the next one up from me, and I went to school really excited that...

WW2 Playgrounds in Leytonstone

In my little area there were no playgrounds...this is Mayville Road in Leytonstone. The other bomb was in...

Home on Leave: Childhood Memories in Blackburn

One day, when I was about 4 or 5, I remember him sitting at our dining table drinking a cup of tea...

Shelter in the Playground: In North East England

I remember a nursery rhyme called the Golden Goose; we all used to follow the one who was the goose in a...

War in London

I lived at 25 Silwood Street, Rotherhithe at the begining of the war with my parents, older brother &...

Childhood Disappointment in 1940

Inside were four cots, three of them occupied, and the place smelt of wee... A boy in one of the other cots...