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Marjorie Pinchin

We got our uniform from Hall's in Monmouth you see, which was a maroon tunic, but black stockings and...

Evacuation - Rags to Riches

Mum had taken me and Sid to Woolworth's the day before to get us kitted out for the journey. For once...

Primary schooldays WW2

Chelsfield was only a few miles from Biggin Hill which was a fighter defence air station guarding London....

Evacuation From London: Woodford Green to Kettering

The children from London arrived often after nights of bombing, wearing a name and address label, carrying...

Childhood Memories -Cox Family

My father had, however, anticipated the outbreak of war and insisted some weeks earlier that my mother...

My First Evacuation - Chapter 2.

The lady in charge of ‘operation evacuee’ locally, one of the junior-school teachers I think,...

Uncle Willoughby and the Bullies:Childhood memories

So I was not surprised when I was clipped round the ear by Willoughby Hogg for collecting unfired blank...

Childhood Memories of the War

The station is crowded with other children and their families, all waiting for the train that is going to...

Kids in London: Games, Rationing, Tap Dancing, Staying Alive

My father was too old for call up in the armed forces as he was born in 1888, but 3 of my...

Any Umbrellas? Chapter 2

As the eldest, Ken was given the large four-poster, Sid the smaller one, and I was quite content with the...

Child of the War

I was born on 14th April 1936 at 9 Lorina Road in Ramsgate in Kent, which is close to the Whitehall Road...

For Patrick (part two)

As I heard the whistle of the bombs, I was thrown into a shop doorway with dad and about five more men...

Memories of WWII By: Daniel Banks, an English School Boy

We kept abreast of the news from the front by newspapers such as "News of the World"; "Daily...

London in War Time

I do not remember our trip to Scotland to see Dad before he was taken away to the war in Algiers but...

Wartime in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, 1939-1946

Sometimes during the day we would see a balloon floating free across the sky looking like an Airship, other...

Irene Seaton’s World War Two Reminiscences

Mum would protect the furniture with covers — in particular our Marconi Radiogram that was Dad's...

A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 1. 1939- Evacuation to Worthing.

The following weekend, it was still warm and sunny, and our little group were walking along the crowded...

My War - Chapter 1

Before too long Mrs Harley introduced me to her church, Saint Mary's, I don't think I had ever been...

Childhood Memories

He said that he had heard Miss Williams tell his fostermother that she had received a letter from my...

Memories of WW2 through the Eyes of an 8-14 Year Old (Part 2)

When my cousin from Luton came to stay with my aunt we met her at London Road train station and we had...

WW2 Testimony, Childhood Experiences

He was particularly glad after the war to be kept on as a regular police officer, and even after normal...

A Bermondsey Boys War. Part 5 - Home once again.

He would pick Dad up very early in the mornings, on his way to the Borough Market, near London Bridge, and...

My wartime memories of Bedford as a schoolboy Part 1 - Outbreak of war and going up to Bedford Modern School.

My wartime memories of Bedford as a schoolboy Part One — Outbreak of war and going up to Bedford...

A Wartime Childhood in North Kent - 1942 to 1945

The first was Short Brothers’ factory on the Rochester Esplanade with constant processions of...

Evacuation Continued

Apart from Lowfield Farm which was owned by a Mr. French, who I believe was a builder in west London, and...

Keith Underwood's Memories -Part 3

I left Penn School on July 27th 1942 and went to the newly set-up Junior Mixed School in the Hall of the...