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MEMORIES OF A CHILD IN E.SUSSEX

One evening, at about 6 p.m., in July 1943, I was walking to attend the choir at Guestling Church when a...

Deja Vu

My parents had turned down my request to stay in Holland until the possible war between Britain and Germany...

Childhood memories from Bristol

We slept in the cupboard under the stairs for 4 years, It was the best protection in case a bomb fell....

A Teenager At War

Eventually my boyfriend, whom I met at the Church Youth Club, was conscripted into the RAF, it was then...

War is Declared and how My Life was Affected.

In October 1941, the Regiment sailed for the Far East and I remember saying goodbye to my Dad on Cambridge...

Anecdotes of WW2 by a Very Ordinary Person

But to return to the dancing, sometimes we danced with boys home on leave and it was truly awful when...

Eary experiences of War Time Prior to Call Up for National Service

I had just had my 14th birthday on the 30th August and within 3 days I was evacuated from my Primary School...

The New Neighbours

Scouting in the war years

It was based at the local Church of England and the church warden was very much affronted that I was doing...

Dancing in the Street

My mum used to come and shout: 鈥淐ome on kids, Dick Barton's on! Jim Bell and Margaret Bell were...

Farming and war

SUMMER - 1940 WOLDINGHAM - SURREY

It was the home of my friend, Anne, end we were playing tennis on a brilliant summer day. During the next...

WARTIME MEMORIES OF A TYNESIDE TEENAGER

It was flying from the coast over the railway by Walkergate station then I saw it more clearly and...

German aircraft Firing at My Aunt and I

A Sitting with mother, father and my 4 brothers, listening to the wireless as Neville Chamberlain, Prime...

Memories of Daphne Smithers nee Baptist

Childhood Memories of Daphne Smithers nee Baptist, Forest Green, Surrey....

Backward Glances of a 'Junior Miss'

We lived in the suburbs of Birmingham, and Dad built our Anderson shelter in the garden which he named...

Land Girls in the Field (Part One)

Easter 1943, a lull in the London Blitz, with my parents we went to Richmond Park where we saw two healthy...

A Hampshire Farmer Remembers

I was 10 years old at the start of the war and lived at Week Green Farm, Froxfield in Hampshire, with my...

A Teenager's Encounters with the Luftwaffe

At about 10pm, a number of German aircraft dropped incendiary bombs as well as machine gunning the town...

Flying Glass and Butterfly Bombs

Flying Glass and Butterfly Bombs...

From Guernsey to Glasgow and St Helen's

One of our teachers threw a note out of the window at one of the stations to let people know that Vauvert...

Wartime in Woking

One day a friend was riding her bicycle along Woking High Street when she heard a doodlebug coming up...

Farming in Hell Fire Corner 1939-1945

They asked if they could see my kitchen and then announced they were requisitioning, the barn; outbuildings...

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Ministry of Food

Her story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. Early...

Memories of When I Was Evacuated During WW2

I remember incendiary bombs dropping in the field behind the house and near the house, a lucky miss. I...