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Invasion of Singapore

I asked intrigued I didn't want to miss anything but when towards dawn the bombs started falling on...

Memories of WW2

One night bomb fell very near to my school at Park Street. They fell in the lanes behind the baron of beef,...

THE BEST PIECE

Picture the scene, wartime Britain, a London suburb, and a 13-year-old lad setting off at 7am to go to do...

Child's View of the War

On day, Saturday I suppose, my father came home for lunch and said that the heath had been set on fire by...

A Peaceful Home Front

We were very lucky and were virtually unscathed by the war living in S. W. Lancashire; Billinge Hill is...

Looking Back at My Wartime Diaries

February 4th Russians 40 miles from Berlin May 1st News Flash 10.30 German Radio announced that Hitler is...

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR I HAD! Part 1

Anyway, Chadwell Heath was then a leafy suburb between Ilford and Romford, on the Roman road to Colchester,...

Rural Life in Wartime Shropshire

Many of the farmers had comforted themselves at the local Inns and the aroma of not just hops, in such a...

We Didn't Believe it Would Happen

The moon and stars were brilliant, and we danced the polka up and down Holland St. trying to keep warm,...

Lancashire Lass

I was sent, along with many other Lancashire girls, down to Corsham in Wiltshire, where there was a great...

Broad Green, Liverpool

A little girl from London evacuated to the country

My Dad was a Merlin fitter

Rather than deliver new aircraft to front line stations, RAF Dumfries was deliberately out of the way and...

The Experiences of a 6 year old London Evacuee

I was born James Paul John Robinson on 30th April 1933 in London. In the early 1941's my mum, gran and...

Wartime Wireless shows

But 3 days into the war, Tommy Handley appeared in a live programme called “Who is that man who looks...

MY WAR MEMORIES

Correct me if I am wrong but I understand that if a farmer had a load of potatoes for market and he...

Bombs and Gas Masks — The Guernsey Children’s home at Bury

But I'm wondering about the effectiveness of these, because they were never really tested, because we...

We could feel the house shake

My mother's family who lived in Oxford fetched me to stay with them at Headington giving up their own...

The Air Raid Shelters

I was dissappointed to have the ordinary black mask like my parents when some children had Mickey Mouse and...

Memories of my childhood during the war

They were easy targets as the river could be seen clearly in a plane. some incendary bombs we dropped in...

New Places - Strange Faces (Part One).

This was my experience as a young boy during 1940 and 1941 when my younger brother and I were evacuated...

1939

My name is Hildah Newell, age 82 and living in Cardigan, but in 1939 I was Hildah Jenkins, The Laurels,...

O Dear, Dolly!

She arrived home late on Christmas Eve and quietly lifted my sister from her bed in the little box room and...

A Guernsey evacuee teenager in Lincolnshire

This led to my father talking to Mr Jubb, who besides his hardware shop in Saxilby Village ,had quite An...

Home Front in Wolverhampton

We lived on the outskirts of Wolverhampton on the edge of wide open countryside, and were 12 miles from...

Food Rationing in Beverley

We went in taxis to the villages where schoolrooms or village halls were turned into temporary offices for...