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My War in Mill Hill, London

It did not help when after the war dad was modernising houses and the Jewish customers were trying to...

The Life of a Child on the Home Front — Part 1

We had recently moved to a larger house and were only just getting used to this new "electricity"....

The Gunners

One of the great developments of the war was radar, and so German aircraft flew in extremely low from the...

Children in the War

I said to Robert: "How can you go to the English, they bombed and destroyed all our houses so that we...

Vera's Birthday Trip - Evacuation

We then walked to a house where London neighbours had a small coach house to themselves because there was a...

Send the Bill

That's a whistle all right!", exclaimed Mr Pearce, "But that's no bird, that's gas!...

The Blitz: Sheffield

The children stared at their mother in terror, their ears strained against the uncanny silence, listening...

Bombs: V1s and V2s, London and Oxford

We backed onto the cricket field in the Crystal Palace Grounds. One could trace the line of bomb craters,...

Memories of WW2 as a Child in Withernsea

Some German aircraft flew over to bomb Kingston upon Hull, one must have tried to hit the lighthouse, and...

Jean's War - Evacuated from Gravesend to Dartington Hall

Dartington Hall was famous for being a progressive public school, mostly for ;the wealthy, but the evacuees...

And Mother Came Too

We lived in Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, which was across the Mersey, by ferryboat, from Liverpool. She...

One Child’s War

Dad went off to kill people and mum became Leicester's first bus conductress. When dad went back after...

Philips War Part 3

If there was a downside to our life at Penlynn Farm, it was Tommy Roberts; apparently Tommy had served in...

A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 8 - Hitler's Secret Weapons.

Dad had got the contract to supply the local School Canteens and Londoners Meals Service Restaraunts with...

From Pillar to Post - Part 1

It was while paying these visits on relatives in the city and being young and impressionable that my...

A Close Call with a Buzz Bomb !

Mum and I went to London after the Blitz, even then night and day bombing was daily. Mum and I went to...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: The Build Up to War

There was to be a fair in Webster's Meadow and a special marquee where our school were to have our...

From London to Bampton - a Wartime Childhood

When I see Travellers, kids, I often think "that was me once". After a year of my idea of heaven,...

Childhood Wartime Memories - Part Two

And the other thing that my Mum used to do, which I have got an interest in is Maps because after the...

Children of the Park: Memories of Bletchley Park

When Lord and Lady Leon died the whole of the Park was taken over by the Government, and eventually the...

A Child In Hospital in WW2

Ingatestone had no barrage-balloons but my older brother David once saw one on fire; drifting across...

Headcorn Airfield. Part Two: Activity and Events 1943

Soon after the Spitfires arrived one of the Canadian pilots, Flying Officer Thomas Todd visited Kingsden -...

My War by Sarah Melville

At Christmas there was a party in the Church Hall which was just around the corner from Wallington Hall and...

Watch Your 'Snap'

Tubs of coal came from two miles away along a main haulage tunnel from the coalface to the pit bottom......

An Evacuee in Wartime Coventry

But I did miss my Mum and Dad and sisters. A week later, the police came with his mother and sister and...

The Crane Family's Story: Enfield

Living at Enfield Lock, we were but a stone's throw away from the RSAF,, in Ordnance Road, where Dad...