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A Schoolgirl's Memories

Aunt Net, Pop, Kathleen, Bernard, my parents, brothers’ sisters and me. Rushden was raided again on...

Max Brown's Memories

When I was six years old, we lived in Sunbury-on-Thames, just west of London, and I attended Kenyngton...

A Bradford Teenagers War

As a police woman at Eccleshill Police Station I just answered the phone, and sent messages out to the...

WW2 MEMORIES OF MICHAEL FERGUSON Part 1 - FROM PILLAR TO POST

A child's war in the countryside

I lived in a small village called Rawcliffe in West Riding, about 30 miles up river from Hull. We had quite...

My Six Years of Life as an Evacuee

Soon after that I and my brother Bob were sent to Bourne in Lincolnshire as Evacuees. In all the six years...

Evacuation - My story.

The day my sister Marlene and I were transported by bus from Victoria Road School to North Road Station...

WW2 Memories of Marjorie Watson Part 2 Stalking the Hare and Shooting the Swan

One time, I heard about this rather than saw it, because, again, it was totally illegal, poor Brunet not...

A TEENAGE ARP MESSENGER

Wartime memories of a young Essex Girl

I was a young girl of 3 at the start of World War 2, living some 20 miles east of London, so...

Was That Rabbit or Chicken?

Sadly he had a fatal motor cycle accident shortly afterwards on the Oxford Road so Mum had no one to help...

God Bless them All

On returning to Hull my Mam worked at Robinson's Tin Works on munitions, whilst my brother, who was 5...

Evacuated to Polegate

Mr. and Mrs Cobb had no children of their own and he made a fuss of me calling me Li'le Gel.He was...

anglo-dutch memories

A Teachers' Evacuation Story

Children, teachers and pregnant mothers. After a while the children began to return and the married lady...

Memories of V.E Day

We then stood there in anticipation, as Mr Fletcher, the headmaster, told us that Winston Churchill would...

MERVYN MILLER - STORIES FROM BRISTOL

I lived with my family on the Ridgeway Estate in Fishponds, I remember the local factories i.e. Parnalls,...

Three boyhood memories

The only German aircraft to drop bombs on Gloucester seemed to be those which had had one or two in their...

RAINDROPS OVER AUSCHWITZ (Poem)

The hatred of the prisoners, no mercy to be found, Just like a little raindrop, to be trodden in the...

WW2 Memories of Marjorie Watson Part 3 Poor Gertrude

I was showing her to the Italians in the cottage next door and I dropped her headfirst on the tiled floor...

a wartime childhood

Well my dad worked in the shipyard, it was classed as war service, he didn't go in the army but it was...

Chocolate bar

One day, we were down in the air raid shelter at school for about two hours and the teacher said we could...

Memories of a war-time mother

My mother Emily Bray three eldest children attended Grange Park throughout the war years and I asked her to...

Brighton Evacuation

My welfare officer, Miss Roberts took me to two spinster ladies at Hutton-Le-Hole where I would spend the...

Memories of a Young Child During the War

We moved in with my mother's parents Kate and Robert Adamson, who lived in a village called Bromborough...

Evacuated from London to the country and back

Luckily my friends and classmates were all kept together and brother Peter was in the next village with his...