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WW2 Memories Anne Scott

Our party of 100 or so children, augmented by some pre-school age brothers and sisters, together with ten...

One child's war part two 1941-44

School, Molotov Cocktails, V1's and V2's

There were silhouettes of different airplanes, and we were taught to recognise a Spitfire, a Lancaster if...

An evacuees story.

On the train down my Mother got friendly with a Mrs Etheridge and daughter Shelia who was 3 yrs old, also a...

HILARY MC CLEAN BY THE BARRACK GATES OF EBRINGTON

Donald Campbell a naval officer was one; also Tommy Weston, the famous jockey. My father thought...

Ginger Beer and Arrowroot Biscuit

I remember on Sunday evenings we all used to go for a walk with Aunty and Uncle ending up at the...

Wartime childhood memories

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

WW2 - Life On Our Lincolnshire Farms - Remembering POW Workers!

Anyway, Dad could speak a bit of German. Dad had sent him, to explain to them in his own way how to...

MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR TWO

As there had been no bombing in London by Christmas a lot of the children had gone back home, my cousin...

Bootle to Herefordshire evacuation

My primary school in Bootle, near Liverpool, evacuated their children to Southport on 1st September,...

A true Story

I had an impression of frothy gold and stillness, and saw that it was the child!.. The girl was the child...

EACUATION

My primary school in Bootle, near Liverpool, evacuated their children to Southport on 1st September,...

Memories of Marian Beck in Malaya 1941

Mt father worked for the Federated Malay States Railway I came home from boarding school in the Cameron...

Life

WW2 Invasion Preparations

Again on the lighter side there were off duty singsongs in the Watermans Arms and Bell Inn and Val would...

Hot soup and the Tilly

Mum would take the pan of food with her along with the tilly, whilst Dad would wheel the old pram full of...

Out & About Around Yardley

Another hot summer expedition to the Greswolde Hotel in Knowle involved a 2-mile bus-ride to Tyseley rail...

Birmingham - Winson Green Home Front

ETT'S WAR I was born in 1926 at 52 Markby Road Winson Green, a suburb of Birmingham very close to the...

Early Days of WW2

It had the characteristic drone of a German bomber and as it flew over, Stan and Co. heard the rattle of...

A child's memories of '39 to '45 in North West London

My brother was at Imperial College London working on incendiary bombs and had his back burnt when one went...

A Collection of Memories from the Benchmark Team

The Benchmark Team is the name adopted by the volunteers at the British Schools Museum, Hitchin. One night...

Teacher did not approve of our classoom romance

By Alan and Margaret Hibbert. Alan and Margaret Hibbert first met when they were pupils at school at Ashton...

Bedford Market in Wartime

Captain Karl was dark haired with heavy frames spectacles and he had a suitcase containing his remedy in...

Schoolboy's Memories: Life in Nottingham

The Mansfield Road Baptist Church in Nottingham organised a Sunday School in some local schoolrooms on the...

'There'll always be an England!'

People in story: Keith Whitfield Location of story: Bishop Monkton, North Yorkshire. Monkton dances were...

Not so neutral Eire

My dad, Frank Curran worked a shipping agency, Palgrave Murphy, which was also an American Consular Agency...