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Eva Shrewsbury (nee Goldschmidt)- Kindertransport

A group of pupils from Rothesay Academy, Isle of Bute, Kerr Slaven, David Hanschell, Graham Crawford, and...

Back of the Sheds Social Committee

In order to send them regular food parcels, sweets, cigarettes and money, it was decided to start the Back...

Rumours of War

There was, however, a change in the summer, High School examination candidates stayed in their own School,...

War Memories from Residents of Crowborough - My wartime memories and contribution 1942-1945.

I joined the NAAFI during 1942 as a 'trainer cook,' first billeted at Eastbourne, then Seaford,...

Clapham Common, Battersea 1940...

Mum, Dad and I lived in Battersea, between Clapham Common and Lavender hill, about a mile from Clapham...

'39-'45 (Sixteen schools!) - Part 1 - A "Sheltered" Existence.

When war broke out in 1939 I was living with my parents and aunt in Eltham, London but I was sent to...

A Year on the Front Line

We used to watch the 鈥渄og fights鈥� overhead between the Spitfires and the German fighter planes,...

Life in the Women鈥檚 Timber Corps

He saw us on the train and we puffed out of the station on the way to Hereford, then changed to a...

My Childhood Days

I had two sisters and three brothers, Jack (18), Michael (16), Doreen (15), Molly (13), Brian (11), me (8)...

Childhood in Horley

Sometimes, as a treat, we would take a bus from Horley into Reigate when the 'grapevine' informed...

A Very Young Child's War Memories...Few, but Vivid!

I think Tim used to have too much to drink on some occasions as he used to have a motorised bicycle which...

Dress material off ration in Northampton Market Square

This is a story told me by my paternal grandmother, Annie Brooks, and later verified as to the central...

3) 'Our Gang'

It was Cameron, desperate for a loan of my ancient roller skates, offered in exchange a swap with a 9mm...

Wartime Memories of Mary Parsons

The condensation ran down the windows and we couldn't open a window because of the blackout. Reverend...

Wartime in Belfast

And I don't know what was in the Ormeau Park, because most of it was closed off, probably AA guns or...

Eric Midgley's Story

I was 8 years old living with my mum, dad and sister at 6 Branch Rd Burnley. As war was declared on...

My Sanctuary, The Farm

Mr and Mrs Moss owned the farm and their two sons, Tom and Charlie, helped to run it... Eventually both the...

The Forgotten War Widows and their Children

Mother took us to have our photos taken in the back garden of a house on Stanley Street, at the bottom of...

The Evacuees

The stream of children wound their way along the High Street to the railway station; the mothers were...

A child refugee from Jersey

In July 1940 it became clear that the Channel Islands were going to be occupied by the Germans and my...

A Christmas Carol

Lunch time on 20th December, 1940 with carol singers outside the door. There is a cine film of my learning...

How good is your memory?

The three Gates' children, thirteen year old Ronnie, Lily at eleven and Joe who was just seven, along...

When war broke out

In 1939 I was 12 years old, living with my parents and younger sister in a very rural community in...

Schoolgirl's memories

My family was on holiday at St. Anne's on Sea at the outbreak of war on Sunday 3rd Sept. but my parents...

Memories both tragic and humorous

There was little in the way of other distractions, only the tea dance at Wolverhampton Civic Hall which was...

Unofficial Evacuation

My mother's eldest sister had two schoolboy sons so at the outbreak of war they moved out of London and...