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The First Year (What A Difference A Year Makes)

On September 1st came the news that the Germans had marched into Poland, and two days later at 11.15am, we...

Charles Waghorn - An Overture to Air Force Life

Bill and Harold Holford were two of my Canadian cousins serving in the RCAF and based at a heavy bomber...

A Small Child's Impression of War

My father worked all hours at the factory but still found time to keep chickens, tend an allotment and keep...

THE WAR AND MY PART IN ITS DOWNFALL

Memories of 鈥渂efore鈥� are a jumble of colourful London street markets 鈥� Tommy Trinder and...

And so Away again. Part 4.

I had the train ticket to get onto Brokenhurst railway station and then caught the train to Southampton,...

I WAS A WAR TIME CLOCK WATCHER.

I was born in Splott in 1922 and started working at the Curran Hollow Wear factory at the age of 15. We...

Mother Nearly Killed by VI

We lived in East London at Barking, and as it was a danger area for bombing raids, we children from all the...

Owls mum memories

They lived in Mecklenburg, but my grandmother Karoline was from Landskrona in Sweden and her father was a...

evacuees to dorset

Most of the children in the carriage seemed to be from Southampton, they all had sandwiches... Once we...

Evacuation from London

I don't know if the school was really too small for all at once, or the parents of the village children...

Memories of a child of the times

He was anxious that my mother, my sister and I be sent away from the Blitz on Southampton that he feared...

Christine Harding - My War in Marlow

At first we went to school on alternate days but soon other premises were found and we had lessons in...

Memories sparked by visit to musuem of liverpool life: Liverpool at War.

I learned later that they were barrage balloons that were full of gas, so that whenever a German Bomber...

Cammel Laird Memories

Cammel Laird's was a major shipbuilding yard on the River Mersey. Cammel Laird was also proud of its...

My life as an Evacuee

Olive and myself went to a caf茅 in Sandsend where the lady was called Mrs Puckrin-she gave us a drink...

A Boy in World War II

The boys were kept well away from the girls but when there was an air raid both the boys and the girls...

France 1939 to England VE Day - A Mother's Recollections

We were living in Normandy at Notre Dame de Gravenchon and, two days before war was declared, my husband...

Childhood memories in Kent

There was one Canadian who befriended us, and his brother came over and he was on the Dieppe raid... At the...

London Roses

Occasionally it would go wrong and land on top of a block of flats 鈥� this would cause a great deal of...

Plymouth in 1941 after the Blitz

As the air raids became heavier and more frequent my sister, Barbara and I were often put to bed in the...

Tomatoes, symphony concerts, and a British Restaurant

The Crispinian Room, a small hall adjoining Crispin Hall, became a British Restaurant where local women...

No longer Children's War Games

Also, we each had a collection of Dinky Toy aero planes, Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, Blenhiem ,...

Evacuations & Homecomings

The evacuations of children from London and other vunerable areas began in the summer of 1939, and was...

Memories of an Evacuee - from Liverpool to Country Vicarage

After about a week three of the younger children went home leaving Barbara who was about nine, with...

A lump in my throat

After a raid my friends and I used to go out looking for shrapnel and one day I found in the Park...

EVACUATED - THREE LOST SOULS FROM LONDON

Our ordeal did not end in Penzance though: we were then transported by bus to a very small town about 10...