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A School Boy at War in Kent

At our village Council School we spent long periods in the underground air raid shelter, sitting in the...

Put that light out !

One night my uncle Cyril came home from his West End office to Richmond to see the remains of Barton's...

The Return

It was a mixture of fish from the fishdock, the sour smell of Hull Brewery and the heavy industrial smells...

Evacuated to an Irish Castle

In September 1940, Hitler ordered the bombing of Belfast Docks and also the convoys which gathered in...

I ENJOYED CHILDHOOD TRIPS TO AIR RAID SHELTER

My Dad went down to a knees full-bend position and had me on one knee and a firm grip on our dog's...

Salvage Collecting in Shrewsbury

I later learned that the Army were able to bend the radar beams so that the German planes thought they were...

Cows

Getting up early in the morning and walking at the side of a field of blue linseed with dew glistening on...

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR

Just before the evacuation of school children from London in late August 1939, I remember going to my...

Memories of a War Baby

The walls of the brewery seemed to a young child walking up Cape Hill to reach the sky and to touch the...

Is that the butcher boy?

Eventually though, the Worcester kiddies went to the school in the morning and the Birmingham children went...

Watching dogfights over Kent and being machine-gunned at Dover: family days out in 1940

We saw fantastic aerobatics as our fighters engaged the German fighter planes escorting the bombers on...

2) Life in the shelters

I remember Dad boiling a vile smelling mix on the kitchen gas stove in an unsuccessful attempt at soap...

A Short Evacuation

I lived in a terraced house which backed onto Railway Sheds at Tyseley which fed the main and suburban...

An Evacuee in Drinkston Green

After a short while at Mildenhall we were sent to a cottage in Drinkston Green near Bury St. Edmunds. When...

DAYS OF EVACUATION

In the village school two rooms were seen, for children of ages four to fourteen. One cottage, my children...

War memories - ML

Because he was the Incident Officer for the Oldham Police, he would have to report for duty as soon as the...

Interview with Harry Lees

I came back home to Salford and went to work for William Eagles, which was near Percy St. I working on a...

Some School Wartime Memories 3

With my garish air-modelling paints I immediately camouflaged it to a standard worthy of the Fuhrerbunker...

A teenager's experience of the war in Carlisle

James McHugh talks to Elaine Taylor about his memories of World War II at the Tullie House 60th WWII...

Childhood memories in Newcastle

Dad changed his job and we went to live in Newcastle upon Tyne... During the next year, 1945, Dad got a new...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part ten)

Mr & Mrs Sharp came and were kind enough to take Edwin & I to Barking Stn then bring me right back...

Childhood memories of WWII

One of my earliest memories is of me losing my bowl of cereal when my Dad dived inside suddenly as a German...

Gosport 's WW 2 as seen by a teenager.

There was a brick Air Raid Shelter opposite the cottage, and we told him we were going over to that, but as...

My Childhood in Nottingham

We had quite a spate of bombings because of Boots, the Royal Ordinance Factory and Raleigh. During the...

Life in Wartime Hove

On the previous Friday – September 1st, the train had arrived at Hove Station from London, brining...

War comes to a village in Essex

I felt safe in our little village, and was lulled to sleep each night by the pulsing beat of the German...