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FARM CAMP

In the autumn of 1944, a group of girls from Abbeydale Girls’ Grammar School, Sheffield, went to...

Bombs in rural Rutland Chapter 2

I wonder what the response of the present residents would be to the passage of many high explosive bombs...

Camp Schools ~ Wyre Farm ~ Cleobury Mortimer

Wyre farm was a boy's school and records show that the first intake of boys from Coventry was in June...

War Stories from East Hull

My eldest brother was in the regular army in India and later served in Malay where he was taken prisoner...

Bombing in Horley

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

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 tendency...

memories of village life during the second world war

I lived in the village of Croston, Near Preston in Lancashire. As there were no buses on Sunday to get us...

Personal Experiences in World War 2 (Part2) The Cinema

As far as I was concerned, I often came out of the cinema pretending I was Hedy Lamarr or Greer Garson-...

Tractor boy nearly topples Granddad

As well as Mrs Woodall there was Eddy the son who was about 19 years old, Joan the daughter and Granddad...

The blitz and after

German paratroopers being dropped from Junkers Ju 52 3m aircraft filled my thoughts and I had a continuing...

War Recollections From Malta

Mum said they had to try to stock up on imported items like tinned food and matches and kerosene as all the...

If No-one Else Wants Her, I'd Better Take Her

My foster parent was an attractive widow with several married sons and daughters, but two sons and one...

A new world despite only being about sixteen miles from Bootle to Birkdale

Soon we were all leaning over the little wall surrounding the pigsty.After some minutes had passed. my...

V.E. Day in Manchester

Eventually we reached Albert Square, and clinging to me like glue, Muriel dragged me along until we reached...

A Teenager in Wartime

Like many teenagers I loved dancing at our local 'palais', the Spa Ballroom in Torquay, Devon... It...

Some memories of my childhood during World War Two

Kent became a target for German bombers to drop any excess bombs on their way back over the channel after a...

Growing up during WW11

Bedford itself got off quite lightly, but on one night the Germans bombed Coventry which was a massive...

Wartime Memories of Oxenhope

An Evacuee We had an evacuee came from Bradford and my brother at that time was about three and he had very...

Incubators, Mickey Mouse and the Black Market

They gave us lots of things, candies, film shows, introduced us to Mickey Mouse, and I was given a box...

The Coventry Blitz And What Followed

Our house was in Much Park Street, 200 yards from Coventry Cathedral. My sister Kathleen and I were taken...

American evacuee

The family consists of Hugh Cabot jr, an Episcopalian business man; his wife, Louise, a Roman Catholic, a...

Smuggling and Factory Girl Romance in Derry

The Derry boys that was at home, they would have stood and watched all the girls dance in their uniforms....

Answering The Empires Call

Jamaica and all those other West Indian regiments… Jamaica had Jamaica infantry, and Jamaica military...

History Of The Evacuation Party From London To Halesworth Suffolk Part 2

COPY OF A CUTTING FROM HALESWORTH TIMES1940 BY AMATEUR JOURNALIST MISS L.J. AMONDSON AGED 14 3/4 YEARS. On...

AN EVACUEE FROM WOODFORD, ESSEX

IN 1939 I was a six year old infant at Churchfields School, South Woodford, our school was evacuated to...

Our Smallholding

Unfortunately her friend couldn't setlle and wanted to go back to London, so although mum was quite...