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WW2 Through the Eyes of a Child in Bristol

Of course an admittamnce charge of one penny was charged to see the show and when we had enough funds from...

Voyage Home from Singapore - 1939, Part 2 "The Recollections"

H.M.S. Hardy was the Flotilla Leader of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of 鈥淗鈥� Class ships. The anti...

Wartime Memories of an Evacuee

My sisters were to stay with the Willets' family in a miners cottage, and I was to stay with the...

The London Blitz

I can well remember the first daylight raid of the Blitz,watching the bombers high up in the sky over...

My Teenage War Years: Evacuated to Somerset

When the school that I was attending at the time, John Harvard Senior Boys School in Southwark, London,...

Wendy's War

"..... I was almost three years old when the war began and although my family lived in London my Mum,...

My Wartime Childhood

I went to Cranford Park primary School in Phelps Way, which was hit by a bomb in the early months of the...

Tom's War. A Youngster's Recollections of WW2. Part 3 Back to Ramsgate

Dad's Army' brought their weapons home with them, and consequently, I became familiar with a...

Only an Evacuee Part 2

At Pulborough I was put in the junior class with the village boys and a few other evacuees. But the hardest...

The Life of a Child on the Home Front 鈥� Part 2

One large bomb landed in HM Prison at Wakefield, in an old disused gas holder, which had to be made safe....

Memories of a Child (Part 2)

In recent years I have come to realise how much impact my Dad's death really had on me and I have...

Evacuation Ends!

I think I was only there long enough to perhaps get my new school uniform and then I remember being put on...

From Birth To War

1931 I was born in the village of Anstey,Leicestershire in a Church Lane cottage behind the church, to the...

Under the Present Circumstances

My brother and sister were in boarding schools, from which I was barred being too 'delicate' so in...

Another Time, Another Place

When I said I would confirm if this was so -with our host Mrs Roberts, to my delight, next day eggs were...

Walkley in War. Wartime Childhood in Sheffield.

Friday, Dad's pay day was always special we would have tripe and onions with mashed potatoes and what...

Memories - A Boy's War in Hellfire Corner

German POW's started working in the town, digging a large trench up London Road and Old Park Road to...

Life in Old Bramhope in Wartime - Part 1

We had to learn the warnings; for gas it was a wooden rattle that was swung round by the warden to produce...

Tom's War. A Youngster's Recollections of WW2. Part 2 Evacuation

We were lucky to escape so lightly because Stafford contained some important war industries; English...

The Air Raid Shelter, Its Uses and Abuses, in the Black Country

German aeroplanes were expected at any time, bringing gas and explosive bombs... The local council...

My Teenage War Years:Growing-Up Years : In London, Farnham and Devon

To get back to Farnham on this particular evening, the first part of the journey required travelling by...

My Mum's Diary as an Evacuee Aged Sixteen Part 1

Went out at night with Elwyn, Lorna and Len. Later saw Len and Elwyn and stopped Len to give him...

A Child's Sounds of War

I was a child during the second world war and we lived at Plaistow in East London, the house we occupied in...

My Childhood Memories of World War II, Cambridge

Our sports lessons were taught by the young lady students from nearby Homerton College who took us to their...

2nd June 1940 Evacuation Day.

The children were: - Maureen and Joyce Rawlings, Sheila Rawlings, Pamela and Derek Monk, Dorothy and Dennis...

My Wartime Childhood: from Malta to Portsmouth

Eventually, soon after my 7th birthday, we heard on the radio that war had been declared and we started to...