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A child in the war

Later in the week I was on an errand to a little shop at the top of a hill near to the...

When the Bugle Blew - Luton High School

I lived in Farley Hill, Luton and went to Tennyson Road Junior School. Compared with other towns Luton...

Wartime Memories

At the school we were told that the Infants were to be taken to another town 10 miles away and that Juniors...

My Experience as a Wartime Evacuee with a Difference

My sister, Stella who was married and living in a new development in Richings Park, Iver, Buckinghamshire...

A child's war in Denmark

The four of them often said "Deutschland caput" in English "Germany is finish" They know...

EVACUATION - DORKING AND RHONDDA STYLE

When Neville Chamberlain came back from his Munich talks with Hitler, in l938, to reassure Britain it was...

Stealing Milk

My sister and I got of the bus with a few remaining passengers at a school building and I was totally...

Memoirs of Childhood/Teenage during World War II

In London we were separated, one to a grandmother, and myself to stay with an aunt and uncle who was vicar...

Just A Simple Bit of Logic!

Within weeks I remember a German Heinkel bomber being shot down over the town and crashing in the...

A teacher in war time Kent

Our bedroom looked out across the fields and we could almost see the Burham guns, and any German aircraft...

A Generation Apart

We gazed wide-eyed at the havoc wrought by the bombing which had terrified us during the night, crouched in...

Daughter of a Marine takes a trip to ireland in her Father's footsteps

In the US, each state has a 鈥渘ickname鈥� and Tennessee's is 鈥淭he Volunteer State鈥�...

Molly's years part 1 Gun Powder Mills Waltham Abbey Essex

I was conscripted into war time munitions in Hertfordshire called Waltham Abbey Power Mills at Waltham...

A teenager in wartime

Also I had to make sure 'Sniffy's white coat was ready for him and I was correctly dressed in my...

my war

To stop glass flying if they were blown out by a nearby bomb.We were issued with a stirrup pump and a...

WW2 MEMORIES OF MICHAEL FERGUSON Parts 3 and 4

I was in a real old draughty village school, but we used to get out in the lunch break, and one thing...

Growing up in the war

Collecting acorns in Ipswich and other childhood memories

I went to St John's Church School, in Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich. We always had a goose for Christmas...

Barrage Balloon on Roof

When I went to Earl Shilton to live I had to go to school in Barwell to which we had to walk...

Memories of World War II

At the outbreak of the war we lived in Catford, London, S.E.6, My Mother, Father, two sisters a brother and...

Wartime in Patcham

A stick of bombs fell across the top of Portfield Avenue 鈥� the second landed at the side of the path...

Dorothy Taylor

Mr Mansfield, a milk farmer, at Thistley, Dairy Farm, Gosmore, Hitchin, had a land girl, who lodged with my...

The Doodle Bug Boys

Us boys collected everything to swap - shrapnel, bullet cases and incendiary bombs. Dad had one more leave...

A STORY OF A TREE AT CHRISTMAS

The solution: Mr Featherstone would keep the bicycle and deliver it on Christmas Eve. Mr. Featherstone...

Jack Peet's War

On Monday August 20th I was at Weston super Mare, wearing my long trousers and Germany made its first...

Arthur Bax in Westgate

Arthur's memories of the day war broke out and of the evacuation on 2nd June 1940 have already been...