I knew about nasty Mister Hitler, but was a little unsure what Daddy was going to do to him. Aunt Peggy, my...
Now that we had moved back to Tunstall I saw more of Pauline my dads younger sister and my cousins Michael...
A chimney was made from a bent piece of steel pipe to ventilate the lamp with fresh air,. In the early...
Children in London were being evacuated to the country and different offices were being set up in the...
COUSINS鈥 鈥 CHRISTINE'S SUMMARY - Now living in America 鈥 she relates, after her birth...
This time I was taken to Mr and Mrs Johnstoneat the other end of town near the railway station, far from my...
Later, when my father evacuated our mother and we children to North Wales during the really heavy bombing,...
Close to where I lived, the whole of the main Ipswich to Norwich road was closed along the length that ran...
My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 4 - The 'Home Front' and the evacuation of the...
Quite a few times in 1940 we travelled back to Walthamstow and I particularly remember several times...
On July 1, we left Bournemouth and enrolled at the School of Art, which was still in Southampton. Then,...
Ten days earlier I had celebrated my twelfth birthday and a day or two after that event Betty (11) and Eric...
She told us that Ernst, another o f my brothers had broken his arm, which was now in a sling and that...
Just before Christmas, Aunt Kath was extremely busy and so allowed her young son Derek, to come and stay at...
My playthings that day were the scaffold boards and poles that my dad pulled out from behind the garden...
My brother Patrick Wason was in the Navy, my sister Margaret Wason in the WRAF and my Dad's youngest...
Did Adolf realize the Morrison was part of the propaganda war designed to show the Germans that we English...
It was a great shock to us all, and my boy-friend ,Stuart, came with me to The Red Cross Office in London...
Some families were transferred straightaway to spare hop pickers huts at Cowhouse, Buriton only a few miles...
I remember the Anderson shelter being dug into the garden lawn, among the fruit trees; we children enjoyed...
The skies above that had seemed busy became positively crowded with aircraft - Fortresses, Liberators,...
When the Second World War started in September 1939 I was six years old and I lived in Birmingham with my...