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A time to remember

Our parents came to the school to wave goodbye and you can be sure there were lots of tears from the...

A Miraculous Escape

We followed our usual evening routine and went down the Anderson air-raid shelter at about 6 o'clock...

Edna Bickley's Story

To describe my personal experience of the Second World War as a child would be to recall the tormented...

Quiet Courage

We lived with Mum and Dad in our house in Portsmouth, near the seafront and docks. Mum took us all back to...

Teenage Years in Wartime Britain

My mother and I went in the Anderson shelter in the garden of No 9. As I write this at 1 High...

"DOUBLE DIGGING"

Having joined the Land Army, I was sent to work on the Lord Cowdray Estate in Midhurst, West Sussex. After...

Air-Raid Shelters on the Falls Road

The sirens going and us getting up and being taken over to Celtic Park. I remember that distinctly, in...

guilty blushes

Then my Dad leapt to the grate, stabbed his poker through the smouldering mat, and with equally foul curses...

An Evacuee

Operation Pied Piper

Along with 203 children from St. Benedict's Road School, my brother and I boarded a steam locomotive at...

The Exeter Blitz in the Eyes of a Child

Dad was on duty up and down our area and had just spoken to his friend just outside our house before coming...

Evacuee

My First Memory

At the end of the war, the night before VE day, my mother and I and her sister who was a very...

My View as a primary school child

I can still remember the taste of the orange juice which was issued to us, also Rosehip syrup,the older...

The People's War - A Schoolboy's Perspective

At the age of 14 I left the Army Cadets to join the Sea cadets and there I was to remain until...

Evacuation and Tragic News

My friend Margaret and I were sent to vicarage at East Stoke near Newark... We shared the school at Newark,...

Wartime Schooldays

At home, a low flying German plane in bad weather crashed in to the escarpment at ‘View Point’...

WW2 MEMORIES

The Women's Voluntary Service opened a canteen in what had always been the Conservative Club for the...

Grandad'sThumb - first war casualty in Abbotsley!

Grandfather had made a shelter in the cupboard under the stairs, quite a large space which was lined with...

Kiplin Hall - Life of an Historic Country House During the Second World War

During the Second World War, Kiplin Hall was requisitioned and initially used as army units....

First Audience

It was and still is, a beautiful building with a domed roof, a lovely ballroom floor for weekly dances and...

Lost Childhood

As they got older they were given Mickey Mouse gas masks.The older ones had black ones and I remember going...

Random Memories

* I lived in Bristol and recall my parents taking my brother and myself up onto Bedminster Down to watch...

Wheel Saved My Life!

I attended Samuel Southall School in Worcester though and I had to cycle daily from Droitwich. As we did...

Tonsils out when evacuated to More Place, Betchworth, Surrey

My dad died when I was very young and mum had been a nurse in Rangoon, India. When I lived at More...

'Busman's Holiday'

It was decided, after one of the heavy bombardments of Coventry, that my mother would take my brother and...