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From Bowness to Liverpool, Glasgow and Felixstowe

The war was nearing the end — perhaps about twelve months off — but the MTBs were down there,...

World War 2 through a child's eyes

My Grandparents left Islington and rented a house in Henley Avenue, North Cheam. A famous singer, I think...

Peakland Memories.

I also remember the sound of the German bombers over Sheffield.The explosions could be clearly heard.I was...

Canada for the Duration of the War

Thereafter, no other children, including my cousin Pamela, were allowed to go to Canada... We disembarked...

Growing Up in Wartime

Here we slept most nights in basic wooden bunk beds with hot drinks served from a thermos.When the interior...

My War

All my mom's family from Sparkhill arrived the next morning thinking Mom and I had died in the bombing....

Narrow Escape in Bombing Raid on Quedgeley

As the war went on the Army commandeered this big house to house German and Italian prisoners of war. The...

Being evacuated

I found that two of my school friends, Harry Lacey and Dennis Croston, lived within a short distance of our...

When I was evacuted from Dagenham to Somerset

Just before Christmas 1940 I came home from school and there was my mother and my sisters, Joyce and...

Growing Up in Wartime

Here we slept most nights in basic wooden bunk beds with hot drinks served from a thermos.When the interior...

A schoolgirl in Crewe

My first memories of the war started a few days before war was declared when I was sent home from Bedford...

Growing Up in Wartime

Here we slept most nights in basic wooden bunk beds with hot drinks served from a thermos.When the interior...

driver/operator

I got leave and I was in Alloa and we went to the dancing that night. Why do you march old man,...

A child's war

We stayed at a friend's house while dad made arrangements for us to go back to our house in Croydon...

Being an Evacuee Twice in the Second World War

We were then sent to the country, to Leighton Buzzard with my mum, Nanny Toms and my sister... I asked for...

Buses and Billets

Doris was married to Leslie, whose family owned the ‘Elite’ Bus Company, which was based at St...

Hosting the Americans in Wartime Stratford

And cousins from Birmingham came here, so the house must have been absolutely full, but the American police...

THE NIGHT OUR STREET WAS BOMBED

There was a story that Evelyn Murray, the eldest daughter and only survivor of the family, was at a dance,...

THE FORGOTTEN FIRE-CLAY MINERS OF THE LOXLEY VALLEY,

I spent most of my working life of nearly 50 years in the clay mines of the Loxley Valley, and that's...

"I was one of the Lucky ones"

Things like building aircraft hangers at the many Lincolnshire airfields, to accomodate the extra aircraft...

The Wartime Memories of Leslie Dobson : Unwanted evacuees from Peckham

At that time we were living at 75 Banstead Street, Nunhead, Peckham, in the borough of Camberwell, South...

Memories of a schoolboy

We were told later that two aircraft had crashed near Hailsham, one British and one German In term time I...

Memories of Jack Martin. 'Our Unsung Heroes-Lasting Impressions'

He was about to go out on a house-call when the sirens went off and as he was about to get into...

Sleeping at the Printing Works

One of my most vivid memories is the night they bombed Coventry when large numbers of planes flew over...

The Women’s Land Army 1943-48

When we needed extra help with potato picking etc, apart from the man's wives, we had help from hostel...

Life in Norwich

There were occasions when they bombed Norwich, and one landed in the road where my gran lived. On many...