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A War Baby

I lived in what was commonly known as London Bomb Alley with boundaries on all sides of the area containing...

One child's war part one 1939-40

Child of the War

Aunty Ena and mam managed to get hold of some camp beds and these were placed in the cellar together with a...

My Home Life in Essex

I was nearly ten years old at the start of the war and lived in Newbury Park, Ilford, on the north eastern...

David K Bridgnell:Personal Recollections of WWII

I was born in 1937 and lived with my parents and younger brother Timothy at 143 Uxendon Hill, Wembley Park,...

A Forestry Accident and the Plymouth Blitz

It rained on Tuesday: The community

Next door and adjoining the Murreys was Mr. and Mrs. Clewes, they had no children and poured their entire...

War Time Memories Part 3 of 3

I remember mother telling us about Dad arriving at Coventry station late one night; there had been a very...

Village Life

One Saturday afternoon my friends and I were playing on a grassy bank at the junction of Eaton Bray Road...

The Germans at the end of our Birmingham garden

RAF in Lagos - Roy Parkin

Sunday is a day off here so we went into Lagos for tea and then into Tinuba Church at night. Spoke to...

Wartime memories of Mitcham, London - The 'Battle of Britain' and family evacuation to Lancashire.

He used to stand on the outhouse shed, Harold - because my dad was thinking of sending us back to Canada us...

Perran at War. (PART 4).

Then across the lane to "Lower Reen Stores", just a little field next, until "Riley's...

Southend to Malvern and back

One of my brothers went to Belper and I should have joined the girls in Chapel but my parents elected to...

Memories of Galashiels in the War

As far as milk was concerned, I got a quart of milk because Iain was under five, and was allowed a pint...

Mr and Mrs Lewis' Evacuation Stories

I, Mr Lewis, along with others was taken to a small village called Snape and Mrs Lewis remained with her...

....an eight year olds D-Day

The Johnsons & Home Life in Birmingham Factory District

He spent time in Natal, South Africa, Madagascar, the Maldives, Ceylon, and India. At the end of the war he...

Wartime memories of Mitcham, London - The 'Battle of Britain' and family evacuation to Lancashire.

He used to stand on the outhouse shed, Harold - because my dad was thinking of sending us back to Canada us...

Bombings in Glasgow part 2

Sally: I think it's good for children to realise about what happened and about what happened to their...

Welsh Adventure: Part Three

We went to a village named Beulah where Mrs Williams had relatives and from there we caught a bus to...

My Wartime Life as an Army child - part one - the Middle East

While we were in Sarafand there was a measles epidemic among the army children and to prevent it spreading...

Evacuee From East End

I was born on 9/12/1933 at City Road Hospital, London and named Thomas Peter Sandford,the first child of my...

My Nanny

Nanny's daddy didn't go and fight during the war because he was too important to Poplar, one of the...

Lardie Cakes in Witney

After six weeks in the Hospital I was escorted home by Mr. S….., who had remained in Witney after the...

Wartime Memories on Tyneside

One night while living in Biddick Villas there was an air raid, a German bomber was being chased by an RAF...