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War time end of teenage.

Arriving at Aylesbury, we were taken to a church hall and allocated to our "billet mothers". As an...

Evacuee

The waves were breaking along the groynes of the Eastbourne beach on that cold but sunny spring afternoon...

From evacuation to the Blitz

My friend Dorothy and I had bikes, so we were able to cycle to school each day with a lot of other...

Life during 1939 to 1945 in Bishopstoke and Eastleigh, by Bill Richardson

Lots of bombs were dropped on Eastleigh, because of the Carriage Works, Pirelli and Cunliffe Owens at the...

Evacuation and a Happy Childhood

When my brother turned fourteen, she and my brother had to come home for him to be put into an...

A Quarryman's Tale

We were always friendly with the Yanks and German boys and I remember one well-known British soldier who...

Everything changed but you got through it

Anyway the next morning I go into work and Johnson wasn't there and Tom Birch wasn't there and this...

The blitz Chapter 1

Mum wasn't here yet, she had being shopping in town when this air raid begun so I guessed, well at...

War Memories of a Nursery Nurse

The emphasis at all times was on keeping the children calm and occupied so that they could lead as normal a...

Recollections of Wartime in Bridgwater

Meeting up with other children, sometimes we would walk on the towpath to the top of that road where we...

From Coventry to Grasby

Then, Harry Frankish, village carpenter and wheelwright took Hugh and Sibby to his home. Jessie gave Sibby...

Jam, Spam and Victory Gardens.

John Amos' Memories of Home Front In Oxford.

Name Mr John Amos Interview Date 6th May 2005 Subjects covered Bombs, Morse Code listener, Keeping pigs,...

AN IDYLLIC WARTIME CHILDHOOD

The grocer was also at Penn, where mother would give an order and father would pick it up in the car......

The Romany Caravan

They wanted to know how we got the caravan, because they said no Romany would ever sell a van... The...

Wartime Evacuee

Most of the evacuees in Easterton were happy where they were but because of the shell incident I assume the...

The Vauxbelets College, evacuated from Guernsey, restarts in Hale.

Shortly after this the Brothers took a lease on a large house on the Dunham Road called "Oakleigh"....

Memories of WW2

208 Oswald Road, some 200 yds. from the local railway line and an Anderson Shelter was built in our back...

World War 2 Remembered

We had to take our gas masks everywhere with us and there were frequent air-raid and gas mask drills when...

Birmingham life in ww2

I then got a job at the Rivita biscuit factory in Alum Rock way I believe. 12 months later our first son...

Why Was I Not An Evacuee?

There had been a lot of incendiary bombs dropped, and the practice was to climb onto roofs where they were,...

Evacuation - Why and How

THE GOVERNMENT EVACUATION SCHEME The Government has accordingly made plans for the removal from what are...

EVACUATED TO RUTLAND

I believe we went by train from St Pancras Station to Oakham Station, ending up at a Village Hall in...

Evacuation Pipewood 1941-1943

Birmingham had two of these, one for boys at Shooting Butts, Cannock Chase and the girls camp was at...

The Dornier

My parents had evacuated me from Portsmouth to avoid the bombing and I was now living with my aunt in the...

Memories from Land Army Days 1939 — 1945

During the war years there was a number of Land Army Girls, about 48 in all stationed at a hostel known as...