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Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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GAS INCIDENT

In order to get me away from the air raids that were happening in London, my parents had rented...

Two Sisters separated by Evacuation

It was three weeks before I located my sister in a village fifteen miles away, and by this time my parents...

Family and Food before Safety

Father was conducting a service in Shelton Church and my sister Joyce was immediately sent to tell him the...

Impressions of a War child (Part Three)

But now reaching the age of puberty, things quickly began to change, and a gang of Warwick Public School...

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German POW's in Love

Mr Hewitson's daughter Phyllis was a Land Army Girl and worked at home, there was also a young man by...

Is that you banging about Mary?

However we managed to get out of London and into Hertfordshire, thus being in the position of having...

Told to me and recollections

I was born June 10th 1941 so I really cannot recall anything bad happening, i.e. bombs falling etc. but...

The House Has Gone Anne

Rehoused again living in another part of Birmingham,a place called Lea Hall, the same thing happened... Due...

Life as an Evacuee

Strangers cane in and began picking out children that they would take and my older brothers and sisters...

Living in the Blitz

When the bombing was really bad we had to go down to the Anderson shelters in the garden — a bloke...

Evacuated to Liverpool with brother John

My brother and I ended up in a small village a few miles from Liverpool in the country....

Stan and Andy - Dunstable

People in Story: Stan and Andy Location of story: Dunstable Background to story — when they were...

Childhood memories of Gloria Furber

I had to giggle,’ mum said, ‘we were giggling our heads off behind the door and the Sergeant...

Another Evacuee

We were allocated to hosting families, and my sister and I were sent to a curate and his Portuguese wife......

A child's memories of WW2

Our Northern town of Accrington happily escaped the bombing - except for one miscalculated bomb which fell...

A Hot / Cold Wet Night

Dad was chucking a bucket of water against the back door, which was also beginning to burn. Mr Hughes, our...

Mixed Memories of World War 2

Of course, the saddest part of the war for our family was the death of our dear Father, George William...

Hitler and my Grandfather - Chapter 8

Hitler and my grandfather, why had both of them hated me so much, at a very vulnerable time of my life aged...

LOOKING BACK

The foreman pleaded with me to try and get some tea, so when I heard that the manager of a nearby camp...

Clock Back (Excerpt 2)

Another polite lady was working her way round with pencil and pad quietly asking everyone: "Hot meal or...

Anthony Knowles's War: From Evacuee to First Kiss!

I was very unhappy there, the headmaster was a brute so I asked my mother to take me back, but as I...

Girl cyclists touring Ireland

And Friday we were out, our meeting point, and our meeting point was up at Finaghy, and we all met there,...

My childhood in London

On her tenth birthday, she remembers three men arriving to build an air raid shelter in the garden and they...

Life, as Normal as Possible.

My husband was a young curate at St. Nicolas church, Guildford, early in the war. The rector, Father Lobb,...

My Memories of World War 2

A bomb blast meant that windows blew out, the ceilings fell down and tiles fell off the roof, we had lino...

Paper Drive

The ARP men patrolled the village to make sure everywhere was in darkness for when the planes came over on...

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