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Evacuated to Westmorland

There were 6 children but her brother was killed in the army at 24. The firm was Wire Drawing Dies near the...

Wartime Memories of Polruan and Fowey

The passenger ferry from Polruan continued to ply across the river to Fowey but of course the petrol was...

My Jamaican War Memories

Life in the Island remained almost the same except for some shortages of imported goods especially rice and...

Evacuation East Ham to Buckland, Berks.

The station was absolutely packed with children like myself, not just from my school but from every school...

After Coventry....!

They owned a cycle business in Solihul at that time which they closed down when my father began working for...

A childhood in Pentewan....and the bombs seemed to follow me

I was born in Plymouth before the commencement of The Second World War, my father worked in Devonport...

Reminiscences of the Second World War

Ellen Crouch - Coming to Somerset

Saturday mornings were always a treat for my sister and me - we would go to 'Farthing Bundles'....

Keep your shoes where you can find them - wartime childhood in Hull and Bath

During one bombing the CWS was hit by landmines and incendiary bombs, and I remember running, and seeing...

Cornwall 1940's

On another night bombs dropped on the towans aiming for the Power Station. Blackouts are no longer...

Wartime Day Nursery in Grantham - an Itinerary

Nursery teacher Nursery assistant 4 nurses in training Cook and Cleaner. Toddler Room — Nursery size...

1) At the beginning...

My war was spent with my younger brother and both parents at our home in London at 150 Tanfield Avenue,...

Happy Times for Lily

For Lily and her four siblings; three sisters and one brother their mother had requested that her children...

Recollections of Jean Glynn

She was due to go to the local Grammar School in September, but term started late and when it did Jean...

TRISHA'S WAR ……..VERY BRIEFLY

We lived in semi rural Surrey, amid the outer ring of London's anti aircraft defences. At one stage, I...

Manoeuvres at Aberangell

In the Summer of 1942 we had a friend who taught French and some German in a London Grammar school visiting...

My Life During WW2

Next came the erection of an Anderson Shelter by my Grandfather, Mr George Harvey, and my Father, Mr Jack...

Evacuated to Lidstone, Oxfordshire

I lived on the Isle of Dogs in East London with my Dad, Mum and sister Joan who was 2½ years older...

Planting For Victory

An irate farmer came out, roused from his bed in time to stop me from being torn to pieces. I was given...

Terry's War

On VE night, Mum and I cycled to the next village and on their green they'd built a huge bonfire with a...

Jo Wright's (nee Jay) Memories of Swansea

Then I got a job as a Receptionist at the Mackworth Hotel in Swansea. We had some famous guests staying at...

A Childs Experience of Evacuation

When the weather eased a little and the postman arrived the first letter he took from my aunt was to the...

Scarbrough blitz

And the streets — being Victorian — were in parallel and first all BOMB they knocked down a...

Surviving the War in Lisburn

Then after that, I think, after what happened to Belfast, Lisburn was also got a warning to that, they were...

My Childhood - The War Years

We were in a rented Bungalow on an island by the River Thames having been forced to leave our house in...

The Day the Soldiers Came to Tea

Auntie Muriel kept a visitors book, which she took back to Halifax, Yorkshire. My name is Barbara J. Jones....