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"Take me home, mam."

Mrs Allen and her married daughter, Beatrice, chose me and Mary along with Violet Steanson who was my age...

A Southport Childhood

There we lived with a family but then my mother found somewhere else for us to live and we moved first to...

No need to apologise.

Eventually we arrived at our destination and our Aunt was there to greet us with some milk and a little...

Some of my memories as an evacuee 1939 - 1943

My two brothers, 7 and 11 years, lived a long way from me, and in the early days when Mum could visit...

Boyhood memories in Portslade, Sussex

Dad and Uncle came home having called into a pub in Portslade Old Village and heard the news. From then on...

Escape to the Country

We stayed in a large attic room under the eaves and I have many happy memories of playing with the children...

MY WAR - BY ED BROWN

At school one of the teachers took me aside and instructed me not to let on to our foster parents that...

Blitz on Southampton

My dad was a shoemaker but had to leave his shop every time the sirens went off as he was a special...

A Child's Wartime Experiences

The younger girls were then moved to another large house, this one belonged to Sir Walter Eliot a member of...

Miracle at Charing Cross - chapter two

At first the five sailors in the carriage were unwilling to divulge anything about the circumstances of...

A Young Boy's Memories

Gas Masks and Doodlebugs

Such occasions were when the Air Raid Siren went, when we heard the doodlebugs and when Dad counted the...

JOY HILTON’S WARTIME EVACUEE MEMORIES

Mrs Wallis turned out to be a very cruel lady who obviously only took Michael in for the money and no...

Experience of An Evacuee

My first introduction as a new pupil to ‘Southampton Grammar School for Girls’ — walking...

An Average Family at War

A sequal to the loss of our home concerned my older brother who by this time was serving with the RAF as...

Convent life in Burma

Mandalay's in the middle of the country, so they put us into a fort, built by the British years before,...

My Mother's Letter - Transcript no 2 - My First Experience as a Voluntary Canteen Worker

Eventually in walked our first customers 'Two cups of tea please', so I poured out and handed them...

V.E. Day in Kingstanding, Birmingham

For many weeks prior to this eagerly anticipated day, our mom who had been employed for some months as an...

Doing My Bit To Help

By then surface air raid shelters had been built in the school grounds and in many of the streets in the...

A conversation about the war Part 3/5

Rose: Oh Gordon had been up staying with us for a few days I was taking him home for Christmas... Hugh:...

Evacuated from Paddington

With my school, the Paddington Green primary school, hundreds of us left London from Paddington station to...

A View of the War from South Africa

When World War Two broke out I was still in Junior School in Cape Town. Children from Britain were...

Edna May, My Experiences at Home

My other brothers Ron, Charles and Jack were in the forces. One canister dropped in the village caused the...

The Night I tried to Share a Soldier's Breakfast

But when Mum went for the rations that particular week, she was given four eggs, one for her, Dad, Iris and...

childhood in East Dulwich

My brother and I felt that we were missing out on all the fun being shut in the ceallar while my mother...

Letters to David 2

My mother had two maiden aunts, Emily and Charlotte. According to the papers you sent, they lived in...