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A DIFFERENT EVACUEE STORY

This offer was accepted so my Mum, my three brothers and I, and by now also a sister newly born in Egypt,...

A Child's View of the War

I lived in North London in a block of flats near to "The Angel" and "Chapel Market", with...

Fun Days During the Blitz in Birmingam

I topped beans, picked tomatoes, harvested plums, hoed rows and rows of salad, veg and help to catch sheep....

Catholic Schools evacuated from Guernsey to Cheshire.

Mr. Stoddard, the owner of Moseley Hall, was approached by Father Bleach about the possibility of using it...

Beggar-my-Neighbour and the Blackspot

Mam went to see Rita Hayworth or Ronald Colman but Dad went to watch Pathe News, that scrawny old cockeril....

Who did you think you were kidding Mr Churchill when you said old England's one?

Nicely protected from the air by the Barrow shipyards, which drew off German bombers like a magnet, the...

RANDOM JOTTINGS

I saw a land mine floating beneath its parachute across the houses in Princetown Road and luckily it went...

Interview with Hilda Wallwork

On the 22 December 1940 on the Sunday night of the Manchester blitz, my husband to be had to go to Chester...

A Wartime Remembrance

I in turn also became an evacuee and was sent to Bedford... When I was 15 I left Meltis and got an...

war Memories (1939-1945) of Dorothy Privett

We could not play there or go swimming in the sea as the beach was mined and cordoned off with barbed wire,...

Life in Guernsey during the German Occupation.

You felt in the end that the German army was so disciplined, particularly on the island I think, because it...

V.E. CELEBRATIONS

Now of course you couldn't buy salmon in England, but my cousins in Canada every now and again would...

Wartime in Cropwell Bishop

Throughout the War my mum, dad, brother and I lived in a small village in the Vale of Belvoir, named...

The fun fair was packing up as I heard that war was declared

There were two, lovely Showman Traction Engines with their trailers which were fascinating me when a lady...

Careless Talk Cost Lives

There was a land mine, which landed at the Hazelmere Royal Naval Establishment. She would get fine linen...

Lord Haw Haw

There was a time when Hitler had travelled so fast up Europe that he came right up to France, and he stood...

Living near Devizes in Wiltshire during the war

Joyce got married during the war; by a stroke of luck George, her intended, drew lots for leave and managed...

Wartime Events

To confuse the German bombers Dad boarded over the perimeter of the top, filled the space with soil and...

Growing up through the War

We were close to Bhatham, Dockyard, and the German bombers were bombing all the time. One night a German...

Women's Land Army at Headcorn

After a few weeks at Bearstead, I was moved down to a village called Headcorn and was with a friend from...

Women's Land Army

After a few weeks at Bearstead, I was moved down to a village called Headcorn and was with a friend from...

"The Al Capone of Barton Seagrove"

This demand, plus the fact that our family was split between Dad, Harry Simcock, living in a company...

The day Rushden was bombed.

We were very recent arrivals in the town; my mother, grandmother, young sister and me were evacuees from...

My Childhood Memories

I was born on 09-05-39, just before the start of World War II, and we lived in Elmdon Lane, Marston Green,...

Evacuation, A Naughty Boy and A Parachute Silk Wedding Dress

I was 10 years old when I was evacuated from Ipswich in Suffolk to Northampton with my friend from school,...

A scottish War Time

One of my most vivid memories is of standing on the pierside in Rothesay with other women and children as...