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Born in wartime

Then when I was about six years old one Christmas Eve when Santa had called I received a copy of the ABC...

Childhood Memories

My father, Thomas Amos Hollingworth, Shipping Manager, acted as interpreter whenever a foreign ship, often...

Sidcup - A Child's War

Children living 2 miles away in London were evacuated to the country, but we stayed home although the two...

Tales from the Wood

Beer was rationed during the war, so we were only open three days a week We opened 11am-2.30pm and 5.30pm...

That little canary was Denmark

There wasn't any Jews left for the Germans, the Danes had moved them all the way over to Sweden and...

Memories of war as a child in Llay

And mum used to swap our sweet coupons with a lady down the road, and anything she had that she didn't...

Beryl's story

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

Wartime Memories of Keighley

That was scary, but after a while when the air raid went we used to stay in bed because there was no...

Beryl's story

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

Walter's Memories

As I came out of a shop, I bumped into an old school friend, Stan Wilson and his girlfriend Bella. We...

Bootle Evacuee

Following the Appeal Instructions, our mother took my youngest brother Eric, who was seven and myself aged...

Intelligence work in the ATS

Since then she has taught English at Jarrow Grammar School ~ teaching Alan Price who sang ‘Simon...

There's No Place Like Home?

That afternoon a lady came and collected me and my brother and we went to a hotel and stayed the night but...

A BOY MAKES A FEW QUID

The reason, I think, we were chosen in Derry was because we're much nearer the Atlantic than any other...

6) We had our fair share of attention from the Luftwaffe

In fact I can vividly recall kneeling, with Gerry, on the windowsill of our small south facing bedroom to...

A young child's war experience.

In 1940 in Baytree Road, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead where we lived they took all the iron railings off the...

A Kid's View of the War

When hostilities began we used to watch the dog fights going on, and close at hand was Croydon airport, and...

'My War Time'

He then took my mum and brother to the Children's Hospital as Brian had pneumonia. Mum came home at 8...

A Little Boy's War

During the summer holidays, my dad would take me with him in his bread van to deliver bread & cakes to...

Spam Corner

I still live in Frenchay near to 'Spam Corner' but now the bus stop is called 'Frenchay...

One Exciting Day

I turned round and called to Mum to tell her what I had seen and when I turned back there was only...

The War Years

childhood evacuation to Stafford

Arthur remembers well the day war broke out - he and his brother were in the Boy Scouts and they had been...

Childhood Memories Of The War

Dad was out in the garden shaking his fork at the planes and he too came rushing in, only to find that...

Shropshire Wartime Memories - extracts from Chris Magner's book

The book Shropshire Wartime Memories, by Christopher Magner from Bridgnorth, is a collection of real life...

'Dancing, Dancing, Dancing' - An Irish nurse in East Sussex, Part 2

One fundraising dance was called ‘Put the Lid on Hitler's Coffin’ It was held to raise...