Story entered by The British Schools Museum, Hitchin on behalf of one of our volunteer guides, Joyce...
I was evacuated with other children from Bournville School to a village called Oldland Common, between...
I lived at 123, Meneage Street, Helston and was at the Old Church School in Wendron Street when war broke...
The people of Weston Green – a tiny hamlet near Hampton Court in Surrey - had a party on V.E. Day in...
My Grandfather had just retired from Ellerman Hall Line having been a Chief Steward – in fact it was...
Milking the goats and bottle-feeding their kids is one of my enduring memories of this time. The goat's...
The booller was an old tyre, probably discarded by the Army who were dotted around the steel works, manning...
About this time my brother's school was evacuated to the country, not far from Southampton, to a place...
Conditions were not good on board, each cabin held four to six adults plus children, and I slept with my...
When we finally arrived in Melbourne, we were all taken to a big reception hall and I was met by my Great...
On the 1st September 1939 my father, thinking that the declaration of war would result in the immediate...
My grandmother had been bombed out in the blitz on the east end from Stepney, She came to Waltham Abbey...
If I sat on the saddle I could not reach the pedals.The bike had a big cane basket on the front to...
Evacuees When the War was first declared there were a lot of evacuees sent to Basingstoke from Portsmouth...
During school holidays I stayed with Cousins in Salford as well as with my aunt Mary Anne and Uncle Jim in...
My mother's family, who lived in Oxford, fetched me to stay with them at Headington giving up their own...
My sister and I knitted and sewed and I remember we knitted jumpers out of tiny balls of darning wool,...
At the start of our journey I didn't then know where we were going to, it turned out to be the village...
I am not sure just at what stage of the War a lone German plane flew up the River Wye to bomb...
Well, my brother grew up a little bit, and towards the end of the war, the buzz bombs started, so the lady...
He phoned one day, as he'd heard a bomb had landed in Plymouth, but we were alright. My future...
She was vicious, and she was the one that welded the belt very well on most of these girls and I remember...
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