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My Childhood in the War

As you can imagine, being terribly excited about having a 'grown-up' bike, having only had one with...

A Day at the Seaside

Living in close proximity to Southend on Sea for well over forty years, and having been a regular visitor...

Such was the Victor's days remembered.

War Experiences - Paul Kay

In London we lived in Elgin Avenue, we overlooked the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Transcription Unit in Delaware Road and St Hildas...

Evacuated from Holborn to Cornwall

The children with the crosses on their labels were then put back on the buses and sent round the villages...

Hitler and my Grandfather - Chapter 6

We drove off but soon stopped again and the driver opened the door saying this was to be my new home, 56...

My WW2 recollections

Next morning a neighbour drove us to the Bull Ring to catch the Midland Red bus for Gloucester but it had...

BOYHOOD WAR MEMORIES

These were children removed some miles distant from their homes and families in Belfast city because of the...

My Life as an Evacuee

My mum and step-dad were trying to make a go of things again, and he was managing a shadow factory in...

Arthur Turner

On Friday nights Harry Ashwin and I did the ‘all night’ duty at the Police Station... When the...

Buzz Bombs, Gas Masks & Condensed Milk

Buzz Bombs, Gas Masks and Condensed Milk Born in Manchester in 1937 I was a bit young to do my bit for...

A CHILD ON CORNWALL'S NORTH COAST

To the north of the beach, up the wild valley where the river runs down from the moors inland, a number of...

Dorothy Jones’ Story

For some reason I don't know my parents decided not to send my two sisters and I to be evacuated with...

We Did Our Bit: Chapter Two

A large milk churn hanging over the handle bar of an ancient bike without breaks,. One ladled the milk into...

A jersey family Interned during the War by Maurien Venables (nee Osborne)

Having to leave Jersey for Germany I was born in Jersey, and at the start of the war and the occupation,...

My days in the WLA 1942 - 1945

I well remember that I was in charge of a few girls and we were to do market gardening at Goldsborough...

Living In Liverpool - An Evacuee To Wales

For some reason my parents decided not to send my two sisters and I to be evacuated with the other...

Ben's Childhood Memories of the War in Braintree.

Father had been called up just at the end of the first world war, being involved with the motor torpedo and...

Wartime memories interview (part 1)

It wasn't very satisfactory, because, I'm afraid, Auntie Kittie thought her children were Princess...

My only contact with animals had been cats and seaside donkeys!

I was given a travel voucher to get me to the Land Army Hostel in Consett. Another girl and I were sent...

Evacuated from Dagenham to Great Yarmouth then to Swansea

Gran and I went to Swansea on Saturday mornings, the centre was flat from bombing, only a church and the...

Wartime accounts by Catholic religious sisters (Poor Servants of the Mother of God)

But it was so wonderful td be away from London and the bombs, To many of us, country bom and bred, it...

EVACUEE, CHELMSFORD AND GREAT BADDOW Part One

The pleasant time in Danbury came to an end when arrangements were completed for the pupils of the King...

School, Swimming and Fighter Aircraft

The nearest we came to being bombed or strafed by German aircraft was when the newly built Meteorological...

My War Was All Fun and Games

The first poinient memory was EVACUATION Mum told me all the children were going to the seaside to get away...

My memories of the evacuation

On one occasion my brother Les and I went to the Palace Theatre to see 'Mother Riley and Daughter...