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The Bombing of My School.

Should any one reading this wish to contact Mrs Coxhead, please do so through me at boxer.bryan@tesco.net...

'The Lost Years'

Aunt Greta as Mrs Bowie soon became known set to work with a will to remedy my appalling educational...

A Little Boys Memories

At the bottom of the street, where the fence was, is where we spent most of our time after school and...

Evacuee from Normanton, Derby

Introduction At the outbreak of the second World War, I was nine years of age and one of four children...

Growing up in WW2

On my first day I was stopped at the entrance by a factory policeman who asked me for Identification once...

Doing My Bit: In 'Normal' Wartime

I remember years after the war mending a puncture and discovering that the still serviceable inner tube...

Headcorn Airfield. Part One: Construction in 1942

This recollection of experiences and activities of the world war two Headcorn airfield is the result of...

The Street Shelter: Childhood Memories of Islington

The words were half shouted, half sung by Tommy Carroll, a six-year-old, standing atop a large heap of...

Life On The Farm At Ten: In Midlothian

Christmas was fantastic for we all went from one house to another and then end up at the Farmer's...

War Years in Collyhurst Manchester

Many a morning I and my brother Michael, have joined my mam queuing at Dennis`s which was a local cigarette...

Evacuated, Returned, Then Blitzed.

There we were with bombers flying over head, a bomb which may explode any minute and water getting higher...

The Twins - Our Life As Evacuees

So for whatever reason we were sent to Chichester where we joined what appeared to be children from a...

War Baby in Bolton

My Grandmother was Blind in her 50鈥檚, due to Glaucoma, but she could bake and cook , and she would...

Evacuation during WW2

Before being evacuated, I recall the first air-raid on the Firth of Forth...German bombers trying to bomb...

Cod Liver Oil and Malt and Horse Stew

Uncle Bernard, in Montreal, Dad's oldest brother, sent seeds, food parcels and bright red apples from...

What the War Gave and Took Away

My father volunteered for the Royal Air Force and that left me and Mom alone, and, as she suffered acute...

Early Years Part One

Cheltenham G.S. would have their lessons in the mornings, Moseley G.S. would have the afternoons....

Away from Home - an Evacuee's Story: Part One

Also, Mum managed finally to telephone Dad who agreed with her that David and I must go. We had been told...

Life as an Evacuee on a Cotswold Village Farm

On arrival from London I attended Laverton school but this was only for young children so after a while it...

Growing Up in War time: In Rotherham Part 1

Dad dug the hole for it into the clay ground of the garden and when it rained the water drained into the...

The Big Adventure: Evacuated from Wallasey

Then I was taken up the grand staircase to a large room that was the day nursery, and introduced to the...

Growing Up in WW2: Near the London Dockyards

The youngest of 8 surviving children living in a small Victorian terrace house in Silvertown, London E16...

How We Became Evacuees

Auntie made sure we were spotless by two o'clock, but we had to wait longer as Georgina and then Paddy...

A Wartime Experience: Childhood Memories of Clowne, Derbyshire

Soon five gas mask boxes were lined up to dry, with :- MUM, DAD, STAN, LIL and PEARL written in gleaming...

Michaels War

One reason for this was that with Canadian soldiers billeted all around the area where he lived, Michael...

Memories of the Second World War

All around Corby they were installing antiaircraft guns with a searchlight crew manned by soldiers and...