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Memories of a family from Highertown -Truro (1)

At the time of Dunkirk I was a part-time member of the Red Cross and we went to Truro Station to help...

Holland: German punishment. Hunger winter. Piano tuner.

The Red Cross arranged with the German authorities to alleviate the hunger by a food drop. My mother...

Some random memories of wartime Bedford - Part Two - My billet parents.

Being billeted with a butcher and Mrs. Fowler's sister and her husband, the Warwicks, ran a dairy in...

Land Girl who saw London burning

In 1931 we moved to Moat Farm at Much Hadham, near Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. Dennis and I...

WW2 memories

They bombed our school

They had the Army Cadet Force there, and we did 0.22 rifle practice in the drill hall, off Lion Hill, in...

I'vor been lucky!!!

When the troops sailed out of France from Dunkirk, lots of small boats came into Falmouth loaded with...

One Didnt Get Home

A Lancaster Bomber and her crew that didnt make it home. We were fortunate I suppose as kids the area we...

War Memories in Littlehampton, Sussex

At our house in Hill Road, my dad had made up a make shift shelter under the stairs, where we slept, as...

A child’s war

September 1941 saw me leaving the village school and going to the Secondary Modern, which was in the...

memories of the second world war in scotland

Once or twice a ‘stray’ bomb fell nearby but it was very noisy as an anti aircraft gun battery...

world war 2 through the eyes of a child

My name is Joyce Dorothy Maureen Carter nee Diaper born on 6th February 1937 at 44, Millbank Street,...

wartimeteenager

On the days the London children took over our school alternative venues for our lessons were found,and my...

My war time experience on Scottish farms

At times the firing range would go haywire and the bombs would fall within a mile of the site Again as...

War Time Memories Part 2 of 3

When Uncle Len joined the army Aunt Millie and David, 4 years old, left Coventry and returned to her home...

Jean's Memories

My Dad worked near Melton looking after horses,but when war broke out he had to go and work at Holwell Iron...

Studley College and Kew Gardens.

Luana Wren left school at 15 just before the war began, and as war broke out enrolled at Studley College in...

War at home and the Home Guard

I remember bombs being dropped in Darlington, but only incendiaries to crate fires. Lots of people had...

GROWING UP IN WARTIME

When the sirens did go in the spring of 1941, the men, women and children made their way up the Bloomfield...

Lidlington in the War

My dad was in the R.A.F. A boy's school from London were evacuees, boys were only in the village, no...

Useful experiences during the war.

One particular incident was when a Ju88 supposedly bombed the station road primary school where the...

Tea for the Troops

Knowing that a little taste of home would be much appreciated, our mother baked little cakes and buns and...

A Civilian During the War Years

However all civilians had an extra duty beside their normal work and mine was fire-watching one night in...

From Shirts at the Kursaal to Spiders on West Mersea

After a while I was promoted to collars, but I was restless and I found a job at Swallow Raincoats at the...

Your Contribution

The outbreak of War.

There we were, a queue of buckets waiting, and there was me, a cocky/cockney Londoner, picking up...