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Ken McGuire-Wartime Memories

After a few weeks of severe bombing it was decided that we better go back to Fleetwood, what we didn't...

Rosemary's Tribute

I was born in 1935 in Mottingham SE9 into a family called Phillips, a happy extended family with...

War Memories of a Young Boy Living in East Sussex

Whilst there I have memories of taking a 'go-cart' up to Hastings Railway Station yard where we...

As a Young Boy during the War

Early on, when I was on holiday from school in Taunton, my guardian Uncle Arthur had arranged for me to...

Evacuation from Leeds Chapters 8, 9 & 10

Derek loved coming to his Aunt Lil's, I expect we three Leeds evacuees were exciting, strange and...

Delphine of the Dings War - Filton Bombing and The Blitz

We squeezed in a double bed for Mum and Dad, a double bed for my Aunt and Uncle, two camp beds for...

WAR TIME MEMORIES IN STANLEY

FATHER:COLLIERY MANAGER MOTHER:HOUSEWIFE BROTHER:ROYAL NAVY SISTER:PIT CANTEEN MYSELF:GRAMMAR SCHOOL...

Memories of a World War Two Evacuee (2): Life in Halesworth, Suffolk

School was organised soon after we arrived and since there were a large number of evacuee children in...

Clarendon Road Lives.

In 1931, my father Gilbert Taylor who was born in 1900 and my mother Violet House who was born in 1905...

A Childhood War

On one occassion when dad was working, mum had a nightmare, she was convinced an aircraft was on fire and...

A Boy's Wartime Memories of London and Dorset

An aunt of mine had a house in the village of Chideock in Dorset and I was sent out of London to...

Wartime Memories as a Child - WW2

Our larder would have seemed empty to my children and grandchildren because they would have seen nothing...

Please Send The Curlers

However, David did tell me that when he saw Lewis's Liverpool van parked outside a house in the...

A Young Boy's War: Chapter 1

There was a message from the Admiralty for my father that the three of us were to find our way to...

Some Wartime Reminiscences

SOME WARTIME REMINISCENCS by Keith Davidson, born 12 September 1932, then living at 111 The Avenue, West...

The War at Home

I cannot say rest easily or peacefully because the fear of a bomb dropping on us was always with us and the...

Through the eyes of a child: Memories of Portsmouth and Liverpool

I am wakened early - it's still dark as we catch the bus to Portsmouth Station -will the planes come...

Growing up in wartime in Tilehurst, Reading

I remember being in the garden on D-Day when the sky was droning with thousands of aircraft, flying in...

My War part 3.

it was there that i saw the first G.I.american soldiers to in this country 1000,s of them all lined up by...

Weymouth War Memories

Born in Weymouth Dorset, I was just a young boy at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, but it...

One of the Lucky Ones - Part 1

My dad took me from Lowestoft, where we lived, to the middle of Norfolk to stay with my auntie and uncle...

Evacuation September 1939: A London Child's Good Times, Bad Times, Lowestoft and Diss

As an aside Dad̓s nickname at work was Captain after the Merchant Navy Captain FRYATT of the SS...

Hitler Doesn't Want to Kill Children

In the raid of the previous night bombs had struck the area around Chadwell Heath railway station which was...

Aunty Barb's Story: Coventry Blitz

I ran ahead of Mom and Dad to greet them on the front lawn at Manor Farm near Coventry... They...

Memories of Evacuation in WW2

All boys and teachers of our South London Grammar School were packed into a special train whose destination...

A Wartime Memory - May 10th 1940

When i met Miss Blackadder she said the timing of my visit was fortuitous as it was expected to be a very...