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Childhood Memoirs

When a raid took place we could hear the sound of artillery, ack ack guns firing continually at the enemy...

WW2 MEMORIES OF DONALD KING part 4

Towards the end of the war in early 1945, we went to Hyde Park to see a Lancaster bomber and a Spitfire...

MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2

We were living in the Antrim Road area and, as I learned many years later, the German bombers mistook the...

More memories of a timber lass 1945-1947

The Germans were brilliantly clever, and used to carve the most intricate and delicate models made from...

WHERE ARE THE COPPARDS NOW?

Mum and Jessie became good friends and kept in touch for a while after the war, but all trace of the family...

The Rainham Doodlebug

I remember that she asked my mother if she would lend some of my knickers to Barbara as the doodlebug,...

Memories of growing up during the war

Memories of my Uncle and my childhood

My dad, Horace Morley, was in a reserved occupation, in engineering, working for Baker Burkins in...

Blankets, D-Day and War Rationing

This house had been previously owned by the Turnbull Shipping Family, hence the name of Whitehall Shipyard....

Evacuation in World War II

Well it did happen again and once again I went over to my sisters where they looked after me until the...

Memories of the war as a child

My father was in the London police force and they helped to evacuate us and our furniture to my...

War in the wilds at Wikey

We used to cut thistles for one farmer, well me Dad did with the scythe and the farmer used to let us...

WARTIME IN CORNWALL

I only saw the bombing of Plymouth when we were at Delaware School, which was above the Tamar Valley. We...

Living without dad

At the time we lived in Alexander Rd., Heeley and our cellar was the main air-raid shelter in the yard of...

Stan Grosvenor, the Early Days in Downside Road, Middlesbrough; Part 1 — Intrepid Flycatcher.

Stan Grosvenor, the Early Days in Downside Road, Middlesbrough; Part 1 — Intrepid Flycatcher. I was...

Evacuated from Folkestone to a Welsh farm

The girls from Eltham High School in London were evacuated to Folkestone and we had to share our school...

Back Ache and Stupidity

The sandbags were to be placed around the Priory and Staff Quarters as it was now to be used as a Military...

Evacuation and the German arrival in Guernsey

German planes bombed the growers lorries on the White Rock and strafed St. Peter Port with machine gun...

Had the Germans Landed?

I lived at 12 Albert Road, Chaddesden, with my mum Lily who ran the grocery shop at the corner of Olive...

A Child’s eye view of Primrose Road, Southampton

I remember my friend Elsie Smith's mum made her front room into a school for children from 6 years of...

War Years Through Tiny Eyes

Although I was only a little girl when the war was in full swing, I can remember clearly the sadness and...

Community Spirit

In the war years, coal and coke was delivered by horse and cart to all parts of Willesden and surrounding...

I became a telephonist and plotter!

Margaret was brought up in a little Cheshire village, along with a brother and a sister. My Mother cried...

A Childhood During the War.

We lived in East Sheen, SW14, and I went to the Sacred Heart Convent, in Church Road, Barnes. This...

A SLUM CHILDS WAR .

Great Francis Street Saltley was a warren of back to back houses and courtyards ,a feature of our...

Got any gum chum

I was six years old when Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany and eleven years old when Winston...