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Childhood in the Midlands During the War Years

My father was a bus driver, and my mother managed to get a job in the local grammar school, serving hot...

World War Two Memoires - Part 2 - Back home in Ramsgate

During this hive of military activity 鈥� and with Menston RAF station about 3 miles out of town, we...

My War

Later all the kids used the bomb crater as a trench to fight off the Germans and the Japs in numerous...

Letter from gran to Ian

Granddad, my granddad that is, said 鈥淣o Jerry was going to get him out of his bed鈥� so he would...

I Escaped Being a Tenko Kid by Two Weeks

The Japs bombed it on the causeway linking Singapore Island to the mainland. They, poor men, were dumped on...

A Sense of Community down the Falls Road

He worked in a fancy box-making place on the Dublin Road, which was bombed... It was bombed out on the...

Letter to grandson Ian from gran

My mother's brother and sisters lived in Sheffield and so did her parents and they were bombed every...

Of Midnight Feasts and Making Do

My best friend, Barbara, had scooped the brightest and cheekiest Cockney boy, Bobby Barton, and I was full...

Working in Wartime

I worked at Howlett and White's shoe factory, and being a qualified first aider with St. John's...

I was a Happy Vaccy

There were long dormitories for boys and girls 鈥� each on different sides of the lawn... The dining...

Childhood Memories of Portsmouth and Hinton Ampner

I joined the junior department of Portsmouth High School which had been evacuated to Hinton Ampner House,...

Longstone Local History Group - Molly Thornhill鈥檚 Story

Longstone Local History Group - Molly Thornhill's Story...

Stars past my eyes

There were 3 bands: Billy Terrents and his band, Charles Shadwell and his orchestra and Ernest Longstaff...

Recollections of Alma Metcalfe

I was at Lincoln Girls' High School, a rather snobby establishment where the elite demanded of new...

Childhood Memories

The airman, he was part of an English bomber crew, told my mother that he had bailed out and had been stuck...

Evacuation to Somerset

One particular meal I remember was apple pie and custard for pudding but somebody had mixed up the haricot...

The Second World War, as I lived it

When we were living in Seaford we were certainly not as safe as we had thought we would be as the enemy...

WHAT STAYS IN THE HAND, SHELTERS AND SCHOOLS

We went where his ship docked, and refits, etc, meant we were at least twice away from Liverpool for long...

Memories of the War After the War to end all Wars... and before the next one - part 2

Meantime my brother came home from London expecting to go to Scotland to a big meeting of the Scouts but...

A story of evacuation from Medway to South Wales

My brother Ron, my sister Margaret and myself were on the train and in fact all the children on the train...

Ronald Earnshaw - My War Memories, Early Life

I was put in the care of foster parents, but as some problems arose I was transferred to a Church of...

Wartime Memories

My childlike memories are of musty Anderson shelters and night lights in saucers of water, webbing bunks,...

Alton, Hampshire at War

At the outbreak of the WW2 I was living at 3 Limekiln Cottages, Wilson Road, Alton, Hampshire, along with...

Childhood Memories II

He was replaced by Stephen who came with a new batch of evacuees, and although Stephen and I were Roman...

Child at War

Mum and dad believed fervently in the war against fascism. Dad had been one of those who'd turned out...

Wartime memories of a London lad

We were schooled at a second hand furniture shop - Hornsbys in Queens Crescent, Kentish Town. One Sunday I...