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Childhood Memories

I attended school at Rothesay academy in the Junior School, although I had passed the 11+ exam at home, to...

My Childish War Memories

We lived in the highest part of Chingford and, from there, we could look down on London... We also lived...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Oxenhope

Village Life One of my earliest remembrances was a convoy of wagons coming through the village to the...

London during the war

In late 1943/early 1944 air raids on London began again, during this time the guns in Finsbury Park were...

The War Remembered

At the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 my mother, my sister, who was two years older than me, and I were in...

Volendam Survivors

It was cold, I was sea sick, I was wet, it was dark, we were being tossed about in the middle of...

Evacuee Children by Helen Grundy

The Birmingham school left after a year to go to new premises out in the country, then we had evacuee...

Blitzed, But Alive

The loss of battleships, over 1500 men in HMS Hood, the U boat campaigns horrendous losses of sailors,...

Reminiscences of Worl War 2 in Derry, Northern ireland

We couldn't get to a Church of Ireland church while we were out there since there was no transport...

A SMALL WINDOW IN SOUTHWOOLD'S WAR

Making sure the electrics and so on were in order.He also had to account for any missing items.He was quiet...

Memories of the War in Sunnyhill, Derby

Derby" said I. "Oh, we've got happy memories of 'Durbi' we were drivers of the L.M.S....

Blitzed, But Survived

The loss of battleships, over 1500 men in HMS Hood, the U boat campaigns horrendous losses of sailors,...

Childhood Memories of Derry Smuggling and Rationing

One day my brother Willie heard that a shop at the bottom of Howard's Street was selling Turkish...

My War As A Child - Part 3 of 3

She had been bombed out of her home in Stepney and had come to live in the village as there was nothing...

War in the suburbs.

It was decided that my Mother would stay in London with my Father and my Grandmother would take my sister...

Childhood Memories - London and Torquay

Whilst still in London, during the Battle of Britain, he also served as a night fire-watcher, wakened by my...

Blitz Kitty

The conversation was a result of me telling him about one of our cats going to the vets for the umpteenth...

Home Front Memories

My father's sister-in-law worked on the searchlight batteries trapping enemy aircraft in the beam so...

My Memories: A Small Yorkshire Mining Village

Luck,Chance or Fate

Having first called out for Mum and Dad my next thought was to ‘save my watch’. On the 20th...

Phil Cunningham's Chilhood Memories part 2- the Yanks

The two Doherty brothers, Fly and Blabber, who were with the Bridge Street boys used to sing Irish ballads...

Extracts from a War time childhood in Ringwood

There was a big gun on Rockford Common and another one at the top of Chatley Hill and the bombs were stored...

War Memories of a Young Child

Every chicken except my favourite Betty, was destined for the Christmas dinners around the neighbourhood....

Growing up in WW2

I read in a newspaper that volunteers were needed to work in servicemen`s clubs so I applied and, after...

Evacuation from London to Skipton, Yorkshire

From my window I could see the Yorkshire Dales and that cold winter — much colder than London, we...

Evacuation from Chatham (Kent) to Wales

Mrs. Jennings: Dad would eat the chickens, mum never would. Mrs. Jennings: Mum worked at Short brothers,...