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The Big Bang

Each round was 20 cm long, 20 mm in diameter and comprised a cannon shell in a case, the shell having a...

Memories of Stoneleigh Abbey

My memories of the first day in September 1939 were being taken from Coventry to the Abbey in someones car...

Coke Works Bombed: Cow Killed

Many of Collin's relatives were involved in the war effort, and many of them were involved in the army,...

My Childhood During 1939-1945 From 7-12 Years Old

My mum and dad, my two brothers, my sister Hazel, and an Aunt Mary plus myself were all in the kitchen,...

Pearl Pearce's Childhood Memories of Shelters and VE Day

Although Peterborough didn't have a great deal of bombing, we always had the air raid warnings when the...

My Early Life

One German aircraft trying to escape Jettisons its bombs aiming for a school and church missed but hit some...

My Grandma's evacuation story

On the other hand, Hilda Price, my Grandma's sister writes of how she disliked the evacuation...

Schooldays

I was born in Chesterfield in 1936 and started school in 1940 at Brampton Infants and Junior Mixed School...

Life in London - Managing on Coupons

I lived in Downham, Kent, and worked as a secretary in a big office in London....

Evacuees in Lancaster 1944

He showed me how to imitate speedway riders on my bike over a cinder track in Ryelands Park, how to climb...

Schooldays

I was born in Chesterfield in 1936 and started school in 1940 at Brampton Infants and Junior Mixed School...

LEAVING THE CITY TO ESCAPE THE BOMBS

When we eventually reached our destination in Coronation Road we found a crater from an incendiary bomb in...

Reg and Hylda Mutten - 1

Reg, then a nursing orderly; at RAF Rauceby hospital in Lincolnshire, was allowed seven days compassionate...

Lucky Me

Well I was then told that I had to leave Sheepy and go to the grammar school that the George Dixon boys...

Cowslips early june1944?

I had to stay with the Wagstaff family, who worked on the same aerodrome at Little Staughton, near St....

Romance at Ransomes, Ipswich

My mother was on her own and didn't want me to leave home so I went to Footmans factory where the car...

A Child in Surrey during the War

When I was 6 we went by bus to see an aunt and uncle at Capel near Dorking, Surrey... When we got...

Val Potter's Wartime Memories

When, in 1941, invasion was feared, my mother left my second brother at boarding school and took us two...

FAILED EVACUEE

He used to park his lorry in the yard next door and one night an incendiary bomb fell beside his lorry and...

Help For The Deaf

When the siren sounded, our neighbour had pulled on the rope until the young man came to the window. The...

Evacuation

The girls Pam & Jean had an aunt Mary & uncle Maurice thay came home weekends,on Sunday morning...

A School Evacuee in Penzance, 1940-1941

We were housed in the Royal Hotel, which is still there, though it is now apartments, and our classrooms...

A Railway Story - Part 3

I also heard it when I went to live in Caerphilly and went to Vann Road Congregational Church, joined Vann...

Evacuated from Portsmouth To Bemerton — and in The End I Stayed!

Mr and Mrs Davis attended Church at St. Michael's in Roman Road And we went to morning, afternoon and...

My Wartime Experiences

This time I was going somewhere in Leicestershire, but also told of Pipewood Camp, a school near Rugeley,...

The war for a teacher in Manchester

At the time Gerry & I were visiting his aunt in Staleybridge and we couldn't get back because...