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From the Battleship Nelson.

Denley was on the Battleship Nelson... If you walked along behind them they had a rolling gait from years...

Bananas, tomaytoes , custard and Christmas cake

Mum ran a small general shop in Epsom, called The Cabin in Lower Court Road. . Many of the boys from the...

Farmers Friend (Reminiscences of an Evacuee)

I woke up one morning to find my fellow evacuee had been taken away during the night, there had been...

My Life Through The War

It was these stories that encouraged my decision to join the forces but I was only 15 when World War II...

Inspired to Loving Duty Part 1

Sanderstead Village church and pond area is over 300 feet above sea level so being there the second week in...

A Memory of South Africa

Buses took us to a school on the outskirts of the town, where we lived until finally being evacuated to...

Longstone Local History Group - Make do and mend

Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...

V.E. Day at Sidcot School

After the Assembly we had to go out on the boys' playground and watch the Union Jack hoisted by the two...

Let loose in London

I was working at Courtaulds silk factory in the office when the alarm/siren went off for us to get in the...

KEEPING THE COWS MILKED IN CAMBRIDGE: Women's Land Army

You used to pile the hay into ricks but when you took the hay away to use it, the rats would be...

Sights and Scenes of a Wartime Schoolboy!

In the evenings we would draw back the curtains, with all the lights out so that the air raid warden...

Remembering the War Years as a Child

All five of us, my mom and me, Auntie Addie and her baby Norman and my brother Royston used the shelter....

War in the eyes of an evacuee

Edited by Amy Carss and Claire Scott Person in Story: Wishes to remain anonymous. By Claire Scott and Amy...

Terror From The Sky

Salisbury was a green and pleasant place in which to be a child and often we were taken to our favourite...

Dig for Victory

Potatoes were a staple crop along with cabbage and peas, rhubarb, celery, lettuce, runner beans, black...

Nell Chappelle's Story

Mum and Dad had a sweet and tobacco shop but we were bombed out in the May Blitz of 1940. There were...

A childhood introduction to War.

Shortly after my birth, my father joined the London Fire Brigade and mother and I moved from London to my...

Two Little Boys Sitting on a Hedge

I was 2 years old at the start of the war and lived in Chestnut Cottage near Aveton Gifford, Devon with my...

Evacuation to America

That evening I was told I was being evacuated to live with relatives in America and had to be in London the...

Evacuation from Islington

Because Mum hated the thought of me going away with no-one she knew well, she got a neighbour's...

A Young Mother and Housewife in Lode Village during the Second World War

A Young Mother and Housewife in the village of Lode during the Second World War....

Patricia's Early War Memories

Then one night back in London we were in a brick air raid shelter, and a doodlebug came down the road and...

Poor little lamb and other memories!

Senator C. Wilson was the first lady senator in Canada. Food had been plentiful in Canada, so it was...

Snapshots of a wartime childhood

Nighttimes in the cellar next door were fun for me because the neighbour's parrot came too! Our...

Wartime Childhood in Leicester

My father had been conscripted into the army and was serving as a bandsman in the RAOC based in Leicester....

Wartime memories of a 15-year-old in Riding Mill, Northumberland

At the beginning of the war, I was fifteen, and my younger sister Greta was eleven. We were told we were to...