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Grandma's war: Rationing in the London Area

But some evacuesse came to our village and lived in the school... We only got one bar off toffee a week and...

Memories of Evacuation

We attended school, held in a village hall, with the other London evacuees. After returning home I was...

Doodlebugs 2

One afternoon 8 friends and I went to Grays shore, south of Woodham Cement works to play on an old...

Too Big to Fit Under the Bed

Tanks were kept outside my mum's house in Shakespeare Road and I remember balloons up in the sky. My...

A Gruesome Sight in the London Blitz

Her neighbour and friend's house had been a direct hit... But worst of all there were bits of her...

Scared Stiff

They piled into their Commanding Officers open top Bentley car armed with shotguns, slashers and...

Dark During the Day!

My dad was inside an air raid shelter with his mum,dad and 4 brothers during a DAYLIGHT air raid. Story...

Oronsay

It happens that my sister and I were evacuated to Canada by the CORB in August 1940... We travelled out on...

Doodlebugs in the Meadow

I would be about 4 or 5 when I remember going to Bursley Grange Farm in Newtown. A team of local chaps...

Forest Gate Cinema

One Saturday afternoon in September 1940 my mother and I went to the cinema to see "Wuthering...

Location Codes

For example 'darling' meant he was in Egypt, 'hello dear' was the far east, etc., etc. So...

air raid shelters

I was 13 years old when War was declared3.9.1939 on a Sunday and i can remember going to our niegbors at 11...

An Early Arrival: Born Prematurely in Norwich 1940

I grew up at Sparham Rectory where I lived with my Grandfather. One of my earliest recollections as a small...

Highwell Road Bomb

I was born in Seaton and when I was about six or seven my sister and I were playing in Sidmouth Street,...

German Plane Crashes

One Sunday afternoon a German aircraft was shot down and crashed in the grounds of the Belmont Castle that...

The Salvage Cup

We were encouraged to bring waste paper to school and some of us started to collect it from houses,shops...

War-time visitors to Holbrook

As a young woman in Holbrook I can remember there being quite a lot of soldiers in the village. They took...

School Day Bombing Raid

1945 Germans bombed during afternoon school Comner cars and Skefko ballbearing factories... Ten minuets...

Doodlebug Memories

I was very young at the time and living in Great Fransham near Dereham in Norfolk. A Doodlebug, that would...

Memories of Evacuation

We were evacuated to Darwen near Blackburn... My father considered that to be sent to Darwen was stupid...

Childhood Memories

The GI's also offered Nylons to John's mother and this did not always go well with the father....

Tight-Rope Walking

My father was digging a big hole to bury a car in, to make an air-raid shelter. I'd seen a circus with...

The Hadleigh Horse Market

Although we had had evacuees during the phoney war, they had all drifted home again... I remember that they...

Grandma and her Best Friend

My Grandma lived in Coventry when it was bombed and in Isleworth Near London for the rest of the war....

School Time

We had teachers who would only go to the homes of the older children while we were told we would catch up...

Douglas Bader's MG

We used to go through the woods to Blackbushe Airfield to watch the squadrons of Mosquitos taking off for...