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A Child's Eye View in London and South Wales

But we usually slept in the underground: the Camden Town or Regent's Park shelters. My grandmother in...

Jottings of a Wartime Teenager

Southport had no bombing so we Liverpool children were given special treatment. Before she joined the WAAF...

Wartime at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary

Not wanting to go on the buses as a conducteress I enrolled as a student nurse at the Derbyshire Royal...

REMINISCENCES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

During the war years my father who, incidentally in his youth, had been at the Somme, was employed as a...

Growing up on Banner-Hill Farm PoW Camp

Mum would make pork-pies; Dad salted the sides of bacon and hung them from hooks in the kitchen. I think...

City of Benares

The next morning we assembled with dozens of other children at Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, trying to...

Helen's War

One third of the school, including me, went to a large unoccupied country house, seven miles outside...

Evacuation

I slept in a small room with my mother; Jean slept in the main bedroom with Mrs Dickie, on twin beds; Eva...

War-Baby In Sydney

I, Rosa, was born to an Australian mother and an English father in Sydney Australia January 1941. His...

Growing up in the Carshalton Area

My father worked as an ARP warden, whilst my mother worked as a nurse at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton,...

Recollections of an Evacuee

At the outbreak of the Second World War, I was living with my parents, sister and baby brother in the...

My Family's War.

After a while Dad persuaded Mum to return home and she asked Mrs.Hughes, who already had Edward and Peter...

Taken for Granted

The film was called 鈥淪aving Private Ryan鈥�. Saving Private Ryan鈥� was the bloodiest film I...

Childhood War Memories

A couple of years after the start of the war we moved to Beswick, another district of Manchester, and...

The reluctant evacue

My brother who had recently passed the scholarship for the newcastle Royal Grammar School had been...

How I defeated the Third Reich

This was the 鈥淧honey War鈥�, that went on for quite a while, but the prospects were not too rosy,...

A Foundling's War Memories

The war was waged On our wireless Day after day The sorry tale Of our dead boys 鈥� who Once wore...

Childhood memories in London and as an evacuee in Eastbourne

I am Maureen Larkin, living in Battersea, South West London, and it was decided that I should be evacuated...

Homecoming

In rural Anglesey we had been protectd pretty well from the nastier realities of war, though blackout,...

Life as an Evacuee

Each evening we were taken to bed by Auntie, who Miss Hedges had said we could call her, with her carrying...

I need some help with an essay

My eldest sister went with my Dads Mother and my younger sister and I went to an aunt and uncle who...

Teenage Memories of W.W.2

Going to the pictures was our main form of entertainment, with three cinemas in Houghton we were well...

Poker lessons and dried egg

I was, in fact a land girl, with the proper khaki dungarees they wore, and that, in fact, was great fun......

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer 鈥�45

The usual form of introduction by the MC went, 鈥淭ake your partners for a quickstep鈥�, or some...

Childhood Memories of World War 2

We were told to grow as much of our own food as we could, so my dad dug up all the garden...

sad memories

After the bombing and the sad loss of my brother my youngest brother and I were evacuated to Langport, he...