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Two little evacuee's

Gradually we were marched into a big hall where there were children and adults milling everywhere. We had...

Memories of the last war

I was 12 years old when war broke out and living at Merrow Croft, Epsom Road, Guildford in the bungalow in...

War time reminiscences of Jerry Kind

MY WAR MEMORIES

We were also in line with the factory that made gliders and the BSA Birmingham Small Arms, it was like a...

Childhood wartime memories

One of these nights during the ‘blitz’ Dad was on duty at Hay Fire Station and was the night a...

My memories of the War

I was born in 1938 in Deptford — Salvation Army hospital and my Grandparents and my parents lived in...

MY SCHOOL DAYS

On one such occasion, Barry noticed his piece of wire hanging from the teacher's coat lining. However,...

Growing up in Gateshead

For a time, Mam, Catherine McGowan, was employed milking cows but when Aunty Mary Hood died in childbirth...

Thank you

We students were dispersed to civilian billets, my friend Hazel and I went to Eltham Well Hall a tram ride...

Memories of Wartime and just after

We didn't have an air raid shelter but during an air raid Mum would wrap us up warmly in blankets and...

My Memories of World War Two

This was so the Germans could not see the lights of the houses which meant they did not know where to...

End of a cinema

Not realising it was to be my last visit there, because on the next evening two incendiary bombs, dropped...

The war in my back garden.

I was four years old and playing with my doll's pram at the bottom of the garden at 37 Hughenden Road,...

Gertrude Alice Bloore: Coventry housewife - Chapter 1

Gertrude was a housewife in Coventry throughout the war, looking after her husband, father, grandfather and...

A Wartime Childhood

Mum remembers the embarrassment of having to go to the front of the class and ask the teacher for toilet...

The Yanks

I looked at those Graves, and the Remembrance Wall, with the uncountable names of men, from all parts of...

Wartime Memories from Hay

One of these nights during the 'blitz', Dad was on duty at Hay Fire Station and was the night a...

Claude's wartime memories - Part One

We had got two ARP Wardens and the one who used to be down our end of the village - he knocked...

In Canada for the War

My Father went back to the Royal Air Force so was absent from home; we found four Mundella School boys by...

School Days at War

Tewkesbury Memories 1939 - 42

In the Autumn I took a Course of Shorthand and Typing at Cheltenham Technical College, travelling in by bus...

A Wartime Childhood - I attended so many schools!

I remember going on a train with a large number of other children. On arrival we were all lined up in...

My Wartime childhood in Windsor

He used to send presents from Canada, which were the envy of the children at school, and My American Aunts...

One Girl's War - Part I

We waved our goodbyes and travelled for what seemed ages, I was in a different bus to my siblings, and I...

Dennis Vokins, Transport Man [part two]

42b - Dennis Vokins: Yes, I don't think they had a lot to do with Standard, but they made the Maudsley...

Brian Want's Southend Childhood War Memories

We were worse off there because we had Rochford airport, where all the Spitfires gathered, we had a railway...