I was sent to the local school where there was only one other evacuee, another Pat from London....
There was a large hospital built at Black Notley by the Americans — all in rows of single story Army...
This ‘chain mail’ was made of knitted string sprayed with silver paint: it must have been in...
During this time we saw a few German Bombers heading for Pembroke dock where quite a lot of damage was...
The mystery of why the village was targeted was solved when a German pilot was shot down and he asked if...
When war broke out in September 1939, I had been about to return to my grammar school in Nottingham to...
Because I was on the coast in Suffolk, at Lowestoft you couldn't get on to the beaches or onto the sand...
Later he worked for the Ministry of Food distributing orange juice, cod liver oil and National Dried Egg to...
It caught fire to the side of the bungalow, on the apex. We managed to find some buckets and I remember a...
I remember sitting on the bottom stair in the hall listening to my Mum talking to the lady next door. Mum...
The Terminus Hotel, close to Templemead station, was chosen as our base and we proceeded to explore Bristol...
My sister, who was 12 years older than me, was a domestic servant working for Captain Paget and his family...
We lived at Leslie rd, we had an Anderson bomb shelter in the garden, which my father corked out and put...
At the outbreak of the Second World War I was 9 years old and living with my parents and younger brother on...
The first thing I remember is for volunteers who were asked to take evacuee children off the trains at...
My Mum decided to stay in Newcastle with my Dad, who worked in the hospital. I was to become a ‘sort...
Late in 1942 women who's husbands were at war and only had one child had to find a minder and get a...
Incidently, Churchill was made a Freeman of Derry at the end of the war. Another Derry casualty of this...
When a raid took place we could hear the sound of artillery, ack ack guns firing continually at the enemy...
I wanted to be a cook but they did some tests and sent me to Mixed Heavy Ack Ack, Royal Artillery. After...
Growing up in wartime Colmworth, Bedfordshire Part Three - A schoolboys memories of entertainments laid on...
GN- A lot of that was to subsidise Germany, so they didn't end up having some Communist revolution. But...
Recommended story
Story with photo
