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Exodus from London

His employers were sending him to Nash Mills in Hertfordshire to open an emergency wartime branch in case...

The Blitz in Moston by "Porridge"

On the other side the ground fell away to the bottom of Moston Brook nd then rose up to the...

Holidays in the country and a special trip to London

As a methodist minister, he had three weeks away from the chapel in Sheffield and we always went to his old...

Keith Warrens' War

My father was a billeting officer in Salford, which was bombed heavily during the Manchester Blitz. The RAF...

Evacuation - Sent from pillar to post

The farm worker's sister Betty married Jackie, the younger brother of Randolph Turpin the boxer... My...

Bernard Houser - Growing up in war time London (Part 5 of 5)

We still see them of course up there on the screen at the pictures: parachuting down over France; their...

"THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD", "IT WASN'T ALL BAD".

I used to go fire-watching with my father; he worked in a warehouse in Manchester and the staff took it in...

Evacuation from London to Torquay via Cornwall

During the year I had become friendly with a girl from Torquay Girls’ Grammar School and was asked if...

WW2 Memories of Marjorie Watson Part 1 Primitive Privy

My name is Marjorie Watson and I was born at Haddlesey, which is near Selby, in the West Riding of...

V2 0n Newington Green School

I couldn't find them in the Dark could I “ “Well I'll get them for you and some clothes...

WAR IS DECLARED

During daylight we could see the barrage balloons over Crewe from our area, and one day we saw a bomb...

Railings and Railways

I was at a Ceilidh at the Ulster Hall that night... A bomb went off, and the whole Hall shook....

Evacuee 1

Prior to evacuation we had had a couple of ‘dummy’ runs — all the pupils at my school who...

My Childhood Memories of the Girl Guide Movement during WW2

We took this money to Miss Dymock-Green who sent it to London towards bricks for B.P. House. In 1941 an...

Life in the Minsterworth Girls Training Corps

The Girls Training Corps began in November 1943 and we all met up at the village memorial hall in...

Church bombing and a letter to Canada

There were coupons in these books for food, meats, eggs, fats, cheese, bacon, sugar and milk. In the...

Benson School on the Move

A visit to the Palace of Varieties in Leeds was enjoyed quite often, and we watched Old Mother Riley and...

He thought we were hiding Hitler in our attic

My parents, Adolf and Luise Herzig, had come to England from Austria in 1929. Each year my parents took us...

Mary Tesh's War Time Memories

I used to go to Derrick's house and my mum and dad welcomed him to our house; they thought the world of...

Childhood in War Time London

Apparently German agents captured in London were turned and they relayed to Germany that the V-1s were...

Gibraltarian Evacuees at Warbleshinney

The children of the camp attended Greerstown Public Elementary School where Doris’ mother, Mrs Jessie...

Memories of an Officer's Batman Part Two - Batman for Officers of Beds. & Herts. Regiment

Memories of an Officer's Batman Part Two - Batman for Officers of Beds. & Herts. Memories of an...

'Neddo' - a War Story for the Archives

Neddo’ Grandma Roberts had a large number of children of whom my Mum ‘Margaret May Knibb’...

Torpedoed on SS City of Simla

My father who was a regular soldier in the Indian Army was recalled and sailed for India from Liverpool on...

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

I slept in there when dad was fire watching and mum and the baby would join me if the sirens went... We...

Growing up at Amble

When a convoy in the North Sea off Amble was attacked by a U-Boat, field hospitals were set up in the...