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A boy's eye view of WW2 part 2

Part 2 EVACUATION Apparently, one lone German bomber, chased away from an airfield dropped its bombs on an...

MY LAND ARMY DAYS

Some weekends I would cycle into Huntingdon, eight miles away, and on one occasion all the Land Girls in...

Recollections of a Leicester child during World War 2 - 1939-1940

No sooner was I safely in the shelter with Mum Dad and Dave than the steel and wood door Dad had somehow...

A Childhood in Handsworth

After church I walk up Hampstead Road to meet dad, mom, and Jean in the gardens at the Endwood pub, there...

Zeist - Part 2

All in all Hans and I were able to visit Wim twice during our stay in Zeist and since we had so...

A Boy Growing up in Wartime

Shortly after this move Hitler switched the focus of his attack to the ports of Britain and Cardiff...

Childhood Memories Of World War Two

Another time a bomber dropped a stick of bombs across Manchester road near the parish church in...

A Wartime Childhood in the london Area.

Free trip to the sea side continued (part 2)

My brother was loathe to get up when the sirens went, but the first time we were woken by the Anti Aircraft...

A Child's War, Part 2

CHAPTER 2 - War and the Manchester / Salford Blitz The day war was declared, September 3rd 1939, Dad and...

The Cully Family during the War

It was not long before the family moved to Fenham, also a suburb of Newcastle where, because he was at...

My War by Peter Currie

My mother's eldest brother William Messenger worked for W H Smith on Southampton Station before the...

Thank God for bicycles

My father's older unmarried sister, who had previously earned her living as a piano teacher, relocated...

An Evacuee's Story Chapter I

My dad had just found a job in the Post Office, my brother and sister had started school and then I came...

Peterborough Adult Learning Service and East Community Centre VE Day Event - Memories Book Chapter 2

We used to hear the German planes going over when the sirens went off, That's when they were going to...

A Wartime Childhood ( part 1 of 2 )

It must have been in the summer of 1943 that Mother and Granny took us on holiday to a farm they knew...

A teenager's war: Evacuation to Herefordshire

Kathleen recalls: “In August 1940, just before we went to visit Langenhoe, a German Heinkel had...

A Young Boy' War

The Anderson shelter which was the common one for domestic use was duly installed at the end of our garden...

Aunty Nancy's War

The war was 1939 - 1945: and so it was, but we were aware for some time before 1939 that Adolf Hitler,...

Another Time, Another World

Staring intrigued, through a very high wire fence, Nissin-huts in the background, I vaguely remember seeing...

Life and Holidays at No 9

A few days after Mum had left for home Dad's lot were moved across country to Hunstanton. Some minutes...

Daddy's Girls

Here it was that he first saw the advertisement for ‘Tottenham Pudding’ a chicken food...

Part 3 - Student teacher: a memoir

A girl's war - memories.

In Surrey, one evening, listening to the Brain's Trust, the door bell rang, a quick look to see if the...

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

I was lucky to be about fourteen miles from home, and made friends with two other Luton girls, Nora and...

Doug's War, Chapter 2, RETURN to LIVERPOOL

After my grandmother died in December ’41 our family sometimes used her house at Meols, a seaside...