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An Evacuee’s Tale

The 1st September 1939 was watershed date in my life, when Invicta Road Junior Mixed School was transported...

When The Americans Came

At the Tavistock Hotel in the car park a field kitchen was set up and the soldiers mess room was above the...

SILENT RECEPTION OF 1940

The black-out, the presence of Jack Frost in his most severe mood and wartime restrictions on noise, were...

A young woman's encounters with German PoWs in Derby

Eventually, when the war was drawing to a close, the authorities decided to allow German prisoners out on...

Poem - The Shelters

Half bricks lay in a hollow crater that soon became a lake - A great big puddle really — to jump in...

"Ta ta mam...Hello Auntie."

My dad decided we should go to Wales as evacuees. I had never heard of Wales... During my time in Wales...

How I met the Emperor of Ethiopia

The next day he took us to the station and booked us on the first train leaving the city and this was...

A Very Different War

This is the story of a transatlantic evacuation of two little girls Louise, aged 8 and my elder sister,...

I remember 1939-45

Dad went to the bottom of the garden, my sister went next door, my brother was out working in the AFSbut...

My Wartime Schools by Ken Roberts

The parents of the Sutton High School boys were offered the choice of either taking or sending their sons...

A Wartime Cave Dweller

Because of the bombing we went to lived in Chislehurst Caves in Kent for a year or more. The stories told...

"EVACUATION" (FROM LONDON TO LONDONDERRY)

Dad still spoke with an Irish brogue and was overheard by a lady traveller... She insisted in travelling...

Part 2 WORLD WAR MEMORIES OF PAULINE HUSBAND

It was while Mr. Conway was with us that we experienced our worst night of bombing. Another friend of mine...

First Bombs I remember over Birmigham

We were in a house in Oxford Road in Moseley, Birmingham and abut 2pm there was an air raid warning and...

THREE MEMORIES OF A FOUR YEAR OLD

There was a coincidental link with my father's army service, on which my mother commented, so at a...

My uncle marched with Russian Women soldiers

The school was chilly in winter because of shortage of heating fuel and although wearing our scarves and...

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As we gathered outside the hall, it was decided that the younger ones should go home and a group of us with...

Sutton Oak CDE, St helens

Put on cape & goggles & filtered S. dimer washed with ether forgot to weigh filter. left to dry....

Many Memories, Eight of us in a Shelter

It was such a wonderful time, and people were so different, we were all dancing, and they grabbed hold of...

KENT EVACUEE

I lived in a flat with my mum and dad in the Dock area of the East End — convenient for my...

A New Life in the Countryside

Mums and dads were crying and so were the children. Lots of people were waiting and they walked along the...

Barr and Strouds and VE DAy

When I left school and started work in Barr and Stroud's on range finders and binoculars and I remained...

The War Years Remembered 50 Years on. Part 4

At the age of 14 I had left school to work at the Docks Office which had now for reasons of safety...

Riding to school

The local men, to help with the expected food shortage, decided to keep pigs, but the food allocated to...

Evacuation ease

I left Sunderland's train station with my brother and two cousins... I told the lady repeatedly that I...

Childhood recollections

Our family, Mum, Dad, elder sister, me and baby brother, lived in Pym Street, a stone's throw from the...