Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
I remember sitting on the floor in the dining room of our rented house in Winton with my two brothers...
One unexploded bomb landed in Christionedd and the Army - with hundreds of villagers watching —...
Peckham is only a few seconds flying time from the East End of London, so any pilot who was a split second...
The other girl was Sylvia- Mrs Hockeridge's daughter. Roy Marshall had returned to London early so I...
There was a lot of troop activity in the bombed houses around the harbour, especially in Dover Street, and...
Encouraged by her sister, Hilda, whose son, Anthony, was a pupil at Belmont Abbey School, Hereford, Mother...
Jack and his sister Chana travelled with a group of children that left by train in March 1939. Jack's...
German aeroplanes dropped thousands of bombs on London and major cities destroying homes, factories and...
Looking back I realise it was not easy for mum and dad, they were only in their mid forties and had no...
The army lorry stopped beside the bus leaving me nowhere to go except between the army lorry and a lamp...
At the time he hated it; he was homesick even though Mum knitted him socks and sent him food parcels, but I...
His materials were also crucial to the success of the bouncing bombs, designed by Barnes Wallis and used by...
This white man, whom I later learnt to be the D.O from Nnewi, the headquarters of Nnewi district in the...
By the time I started at the Commonweal my brother and I were the only child evacuees from our group still...
They sang their hearts out with many of the war songs particularly the Vera Lynn favourites and London was...
He knew that the soldiers stationed in Merriott were various companies of 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th...
My parents were Dave and Millie Harris and we lived in Mayola Road, Lower Clapton, London E5. My Sister,...
The town of Redruth, where I lived, was not a target but, not that I knew at the time, it was once...
My father regularly acquired bundles of softwood off cuts from a factory situated on Slough trading estate...
Although I very well remember the German air raid on Croydon airport during the early evening of 15th...
The bombing in Bristol had finished by then....
Nanny's dad didn't go and fight during the war because he was too important to Poplar, one of the...
Apparently the reason Britain moved so quickly to occupy Iceland was that some information had come out of...
I told her 'yes' and informed her that during the war I had lived two hundred yards away from the...
There would still ba a Royal Ascot week in June the Hoy-Paloy in their Taxis, Limos and Landeurs would turn...
I am ashamed today to recall that I laughed on learning that a large bomb, on which we encouraged to stick...
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