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Best Left Buried

My experience during the six years of my childhood have given me anxiety over the years and periods of...

My Mum in Liverpool: Bombed Out Three Times

I have heard many different stories, but the most memorable is the number of times that they had to leave...

Another Pat's Story

This could have been the same aircraft as Ted's, except it was on the beach when I saw it. My mother...

Evacuated to Bedford

Some time in 1939 I was evacuated to Bedford with my eldest brother Fred, and my sister Joyce. Fred pushed...

Evacuation

We went to a British restaurant for a meal at the end of the day if there was anyone left in Bootle...

My Mothers war

My Mum was brought up in a childrens home In Egham,Surrey. She had one elder brother called John or Jack...

Rubber Planes

I remember that I was evacuated to Creswell near Nottingham. The anti aircraft gunners had little rubber...

An Evacuee鈥檚 Experience of Country Living

When the war started, I was seven years old and lived on the Isle of Dogs... My family was bombed out and...

German Plane

I was recently chatting to my grandchildren and family about the 1939-45 war and remembered a German plane...

Mother's Anguish

As a very young child I lived near Woolwich Arsenal and so was evacuated... One day at school an air-raid...

Distant Air Raids

My father's sister lived in Sale, near Manchester and if there was an air-raid on over Manchester...

My Story

I was born in 1935, so I grew up in the 2nd World War as a youngster in short trousers I was...

Schoolboy Evacuated from Coventry to Lincoln

The school remained in Lincoln for two and a half years....

Memories of D-Day: In West Dorset

My most vivid memory is of looking up at the evening sky on June 5th and watching the sky blacken with all...

An Ingenious Provider for Evacuees

My grandmother, who lived in a very big house in a hampshire village, took in about forty evacuee children...

Delivering messages

She volunteered and remembers taking her messages from the Welsh-speaking Tabernacle Chapel to the Home...

Childhood Memories of The War

Although we were a family of five, we took in four, persuading a lady across the road to take the other...

Edgar's Story

In mid-June 1940 I was crouching over a Chemistry paper during the School Certificate examination, the...

Doodle bugs

As I was born in 1940, I don't remember too much of the war - but I was terrified by the doodle...

Evacuation to East Leek

After that we were evacuated to East Leek, Loughborough... We used to get the bus from Worksop to Sheffield...

Sunday Morning Bath Time

This sunday my mum had just about finished with me as the siren started to go at full blast... My Mum and...

A CHILDHOOD LIVING NEAR MANCHESTER DURING WORLD WAR 2

I was 4 and half years old when World War Two started.My first memory was the talk of men being 'called...

Mummys Panties: Visiting a Badly Burnt Father in Hospital

I must have been about two and a half years old, but I remenber having him pointed out to me in his...

Close Encounter with a V1

One day during the doodlebug era I was with my friend, John, in his back garden... In the usual manner of...

A Bomb After The 'All Clear'

As was usual in the little streets of London, after any event people came out of their front doors to...

Northgate School in Wartime.

Northgate School in Wartime. I was at Northgate School, Ipswich, during the war....