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Daily Life in Wartime Plymouth

I use to work mostly nights in the Sorting Office and we weren't allowed to shelter until our...

Life as a child in an Anderson Shelter

We lived in a bungalow and my sister Thelma 10 years old and myself were hurriedly woken from our shared...

Evacuation Memories

And Auntie Ivy was downstairs writing a letter to Mummy to tell her not to worry and that she would look...

The Pleasures of Rural Evacuation

As there was no building sufficiently large to hold the whole establishment, the Juniors were moved to Mr...

Uncanny Trip

It includes: Sunday 6-30pm Special English Service- Church Blankenberghe; Monday 7am Coach tour of...

Meeting troops returning from Dunkirk to Plymouth

I remember the day the call went out for help in what was then Millbay Docks — nestling under...

Ramsgate Evacuee

We lived in Ramsgate, Kent, and Ramsgate was in the front line, only 28 miles from the French coast. My...

Ann Spokes-Symonds' Memories of the Home Front in Oxford

Name Ann Spokes Symonds Interview Date 29th April 2005 and 3rd June 2005 Subjects covered Blackout,...

Some of the Worst Scars are the Mental Ones

I was an only child, and after the period when we'd sat in our Anderson shelter, which had a tendancy...

THE THOMSON WAR YEARS - PART 2

Everyone had to obey the blackout curfew, no lights could be shown and often windows had strips of brown...

Barrage Balloons Explosion, Marston Mortain (Cardington Balloon depot) and a wartime Bedfordshire childhood

Barrage Balloons Explosion, Marston Mortain and a wartime Bedfordshire childhood. I used to go to my...

Land Army Life in Bedfordshire

Anyway, away I went to the town hall to join the land army. During my time in the land army I learned...

MEMORIES OF THE WAR - 1939-45

Eventually the action and bombing started and I give below some of the memories have of living in Hull when...

Tin trays and cardboard

I was met by my "cousin", her father, my "uncle" and her brother my "cousin", it...

A French Lady and her English Husband's Tale

Tony was working at the British Embassy in Paris, which was where we met. So Tony managed to find us a...

My Childhood and Teenage Memories of World War 2 in Brentwood

The evacuees to Brentwood came from London, which was only about 15 miles away. If the barrage balloons...

A schoolboy's view of World War Two

The next bomb that struck was farther down Minster St. The bomber was lost so he dropped his whole stash of...

Growing up in the War

In 1940 We had a visit from one of mother's cousins, Harry Green, who was a petty officer aboard HMS...

A few memories of the War 1939 - 1945 in a nutshell.

He joined the Signals of the Fleet Air Arm as an Ordinary Seaman but was soon promoted to Warrant Officer...

LIFE ON A FARM IN NORTH WALES DURING WORLD WAR 2

LIFE ON A FARM IN NORTH WALES DURING WORLD WAR TWO MR RICHARD ELLIS/MRS EIRLYS HOWDEN PENRHYN ESTATE BANGOR...

WESTMILL

There were there land army girls living in the hamlet... Judy, the other land girl, lived with someone in...

My Experience of Wartime as Seen through a Child's Eyes

On a 'good raid' night I would often slip out into the garden and watch with awe as the...

Ann Woolley's wartime memories

When I was frightened, as the air raid sirens sounded on Nestles factory at Hatton, my grandfather would...

A Schoolgirl's Wartime Memories of Hull

Eventually the action and bombing started and I give below, some of the memories I have of living in Hull,...

Now we are at War

The house we were billeted in had little comfort for Joan and I. Other than a bed and cupboard our bedroom...

V.E. Day in Darite

I was to tour the village, starting at the village shop, which Mr Bert Baker and his wife Elizabeth managed...