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I Didn't Go Home

I was given a choice — I could either stay with ‘Nanny’ Tong — or go home to London...

Harry Devey's life in Birmingham 1939 - 1944

I was 13 when the war broke out and living in Clifton Road in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. There was a science...

Vera:The Evacuee

Evacuation meant us children would be sent into parts of the country where bombing was unlikely My family...

mysterious arousal and tight trousers

Because of the Blackout and the lack of car and streetlights the nights were very dark,even torch batteries...

Evacuation — A Lesson for Life

On arrival we were sorted out and I went with two younger girls to a large Edwardian house, still decorated...

D day

THE EVACUEES

Mamie, the eldest, at thirteen, was in charge of us - Joanne, Willie, Amy and Jenny. Such excitement. He...

The Evening two Mines Dropped by German Aircraft

My brother John had been in the garden with my Granddad at my home when they saw a parachute coming down,...

Hospital memories

Sister Baron was my Supervisor under Matron Sutherland who was in charge of all the wards in Cherry Knowle...

Wartime stories 1 and 2

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own name on the list1 To say I was excited would be an...

Memories of a Bevin-Boy, My First Days in the Mines.

The father, and our landlord, Dick, who had worked down the mines all his life, decided to help us...

A Teenager's War

The fireman then pulled us into a large coal cellar, which was full of firemen... My mind drifted to one of...

Wartime childhood

There was also activity in Richmond Park and on Wimbledon Common and obviously many more areas. My mother...

A Child’s Perspective of the Air Raids

I slept on a blue metal camp bed, and the adults slept in hammocks which were slung from bolts in the wall....

Airaids on Goodmays railway goods yard.

At one particular time dad and I were in Suffolk and mum was in Goodmays preparing to join us... The first...

Evacutation from London to Frome

Before the war began he encountered a health problem and was diagnosed by doctors with having: Rheumatic...

Tear Gas and Chewing Gum

Merle came from Salt Lake City and Carlo from Chicago. James Simpson via Dundee Central Library....

Singing in St Pauls

During the war the choir school of St Paul's Cathedral in London were evacuated and to fill the gap and...

Holidays in Wartime

For holidays we had got in the habit, my grandmother, mother and I, of going to Llandudno each summer,...

Ice Cream

I would be out in the fields in the morning and dozens of American Flying Fortress Bombers would circle...

The Schooner Ada

Hundreds of people would come on board the Ada to see Dad's museum....

Difficult Times

I kept a large map on the wall at home pinning flags in to indicate where the British and German forces...

Working with the farm horses as an evacuee

Every now and again the farmer Mr Gower work with us in the wood yard where there was a great pile of...

Shelters, Smoke Screens and Soldiers

The nearest bombs to us were the ones that hit the Baseball ground and in Shaftsbury and Columbo Streets, I...

Childhood Memories

Sometimes there were bombs around and the buses had to go to Plymouth via the Embankment. I had another...

My War in North Birmingham

I was seven when the war started and was living with my Mother, Grandmother, Aunt and two uncles in the...