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Evacuee 2

A few minutes after being taken in by our new 鈥楢unty & Uncle鈥� on September 3rd, Mr....

History Of The Evacuation Party From London To Halesworth Suffolk.

History Of The Evacuation Party From London To Halesworth Suffolk....

Escape from Nazi Occupied Vienna to Derry

Gertrude Warmington and her little brother were smuggled to safety in April 1939 from Nazi occupied Vienna...

Kid's Army

In one of their exercises, in which they were divided into Germans and English, they lay on the grass and...

I Remember

I was at York Road School in Church Gresley but it was turned over to a First Aid post so we had...

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...

Audrey's Straw Hat

My maiden name was Audrey Rees and I was born in 1929 and lived in Park View Road, Tottenham with my...

Memories of a wartime childhood in Worthing

My sisters ,Sheila, Monica and I lost our mother in 1938 from tuberculosis, and had gone to live with our...

WARTIME

Your Dad has just come in and says it was the fruit shop window that went and it looks as if there...

Some Recollections of WW2

It was a beautiful warm sunny day and we were making our way towards the bus station by way of the path...

A child's memories of WWII

Ashley Farm and Memories of Glen Miller

I wanted to join the WAAFS or the Navy but I was too young, so I went to the Land Army Office...

EVACUATION FROM BIRMINGHAM - SEPTEMBER 1ST 1939

My mother had opened a home made cake shop and cafe, at 74 Muntz Street, Small Heath in the last fourteen...

Growing up during the War

There was only ever one bomb dropped on Blackburn. We would go to the top of Mellor, a high point in...

'Evacuees' and 'Shortages' 1940

Up and down, up and down All the way to London Town, Criss-cross, criss-cross skipping and crossing of feet...

My Two Best Billets

I, together with another girl, who I did not know, were sent to Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell at Little Hickman...

Growing up in WW2

When it was decided to evacuate children from London organised by their school, my parents were concerned,...

A young lad at war

My father kept a cycle shop And among the things he sold Was calcium carbide granules, Now worth their...

From Adolf To Alderton

The following morning like a pilgrimage to Lourdes, all 96 inhabitants of our village -- including eighty...

Melton Mowbray in the War

My brother Dick was called up into the Royal Navy and my mum thought he was going straight to sea when he...

Somebody Else鈥檚 Knickers

We were living in London in a huge Georgian house 鈥� with a wine cellar and 3-stories. One day we had...

Childhood in Liverpool

Mum, dad, gran and good new neighbours soon had it liveable. Then came the evacuation of children, but mum...

Siren suits, leggings and evacuees

I was born in September 1940 so my memories are few but I do remember my father Ron Sackett going to the...

War - a Way of Life!

My grandmother took my next sister along the line to Leicester and my brother and I went to Leeds. Our poor...

Manchester Blitz

One night, her son came into their shelter and said, "Vine Street is down and everyone has been taken...

Some recollections of a wartime childhood as experienced by June Copeland.

I think the family thought I would benefit from doing chores such as going to the vicarage weekly to do...