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Emily Cathcart's Wartime Memories

She and her husband George Cathcart ran a small country general store and post office in Bellanaleck, Co....

My war memories 1939-45: Blitz in London and Birmingham

We wore them at night, and during a raid my sister and I were put under the piano in the drawing room...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 7

9 THE SUMMARY OF JUDY'S STORY 鈥� opens with her early thoughts of when she first moved from her...

Fleeting Images

I had no memories of Dad; he was a photo Mam kept showing me, along with photos of other men in the...

Memories of a Dartmouth Youngster

Dartmouth was a balloon station for ships proceeding up or down the English Channel, When not in use these...

Life on the Farm and Tutbury School continued

On these occasions we took the three boys - always on a Saturday - and if funds ran to it Pat would...

Poppy's Wartime Memories - Part 2, 1941-1945

In those days there was no television and no big shows in this area to compare us with so we performed at...

Childhood Memories of War. Life in Cosham, Portsmouth.

I was 18 months old at the outbreak of war and lived in Freshwater Road at Cosham on what was known as...

The First Day of the Doodlebug Raids

Working in the kitchen, Mother had seen the doodlebug coming low between the wide gap in the avenue of elm...

Life in Britain During the Second World War - Year 9 Project (2)

One night during an air raid, we were sat in the cellar and my Dad got us singing "There'll Always...

A Brighton Boy's War Story, December 1940

The siren went tonight and the bombers have started to fly over. Norman was a pupil at Whitehawk Primary...

Second Evacuation to Kettering

So we packed up once again and went to my Auntie Lily and cousins in Colchester to escape from the London...

Evacuation from Bethnal Green,London, 1940

It was not until we reached Cardiff that we finally, after many questions, were told we were heading for...

World War 2 Through the Eyes of a Child in London

I attended Sydenham High School in South East London with my sister who was fifteen and it was decided...

Transport in Wartime

FH Wilson Transport: the Depot Our family business, which was owned by Uncle Fred and Daddy, was a small...

Friends Reunited with Memories of Air Raids on Norwich

Edna Gray and Sheila Rayner were old school friends in Norwich. For Christmas both Sheila and Edna recalled...

A Bermondsey Boys War. Part 9 - V2s then Victory at last.

There hadn't been any false alarms for a while, and the Girls were getting jittery in case the Officer...

Memories of the Second World War and the effect it had on my Family

My very early memories were when I was just four years old, I was living with my mother Mabel Jarvis and my...

A Leicestershire Schoolgirl's War

I was still at the Church of England Junior School in Wigston Magna and walked approximately four miles...

The Waiting Months: In Chaldon, Surrey

With so many good fields and wild countryside in and around Chaldon it wasn't difficult to imagine that...

Blitz and V Weapons continued: A Child in London

None of them had -very strange then later in the day we were all made to go down to the cloakrooms which...

Memories of the Second World War: Childhood Memories in Benenden, Kent

When the war started Dad's job with the Canadian Government ended and he brought us down to Broadstairs...

Incendiary Bombs Fall on River Street, Stockport by Marian Ryan (nee Arrowsmith)

Mum pushed my brother into my arms and said 鈥淕et to the shelter鈥�, then she grabbed her two...

Childhood Memories of War.

The other side of the Station was a Bomb Site 鈥� it used to be a Picture House said Mum, but the...

Wartime Schooling in Stockton-on-Tees

Getting there we were all in the assembly when the Head master said some bombs dropped on Northcote and...

A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 2-Prelude to the Blitz.

Dad's Shop was in Galleywall Road, which joined Southwark Park Road at the part which was the main...