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Eleanor and Clementine

In the porch, they were greeted by Mrs Murphy, Barham W.I. President, who was also landlady of the...

East London Child

This was only a temporary arrangment and a further move had to be made to old Grampa Mayo for both Jean and...

How I survived a North Wales Boarding School.

When I was nearly 10 I had measles, mumps, German measles, chicken pox and whooping cough all in a year......

Growing up in Scarborough

There was New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Rhodesia, South Africa Czekoslovakia, Poland, from everywhere...

Sonia's wartime memories

We lived on the river Dee side of the Wirral and remember the night Liverpool had the very heavy raids and...

Farnborough in Kent

Mr Derek Williams Born 1935 During the war I was in Farnborough Kent and I lived near Biggin Hill...

Una Bracey Remembers

The three Hitchin batteries I knew were at Bedford Road, Chapel Foot on the London Road, and Whitwell. I...

The Guernsey Children’s Home evacuated to Bury, Lancs

The Guernsey Children's Home evacuated to Bury, Lancs...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MILKMAN DURING THE WAR APRIl 1940

Micky was mine until teatime unless the windows were blown in again. Olive and Reg cuddled up and Micky...

Ruth's Story

Most food was rationed Ruth felt as though she was living on toast, foods like sugar, meat, eggs, and...

Child's wartime in Lancashire

At one time he was stationed in Scotland, and I remember train journeys when I was very young. Another...

Written After One Year In Captivity

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Ronald Parker and Father Major Maurice Albert...

Beaver Rd school

Long Ago

I passed so it looked as if I would survive a gas attack and then there was a small chore of getting...

Evacuation

It was Sunday, I was going for a walk with my friends when the air raid siren sounded, we all ran home...

Evacuation to Devon and life in Chislehurst, Kent

We could not go back to Cornwall as our friends had already taken on some evacuees, so my mother, my...

An Air Raid Warden's Memories of the War

I was an air raid warden, i had to go around the village checking that all windows were blacked out. It was...

The story of Mrs Phyllis Stableford (nee Spackman) who was evacuated

We were sent to a village to Essex called Wothenho with Alma, Margaret went to Brentwood with her nursery...

Sounds we remember from World War 2

ITMA, Children's Hour . Workers’ playtime from a factory ‘somewhere in England’...

Hedge-hopping in Sussex

Such was the case one morning while Gran and Win were cooking in the kitchen and the baby, Pat, was in her...

WAR MEMORIES OF A TEENAGER

The time came for me to go to work, not to the best of jobs, working in the ammunition factory and then...

Living In Manchester Was Not That Bad

When war was declared our family was on holiday in North Wales, so my sister and I returned as an evacuee...

Brighton Blarney

So, in June 1935 a 44-year-old Irishman arrived at Brighton station with his wife and 5 young sons; myself...

Air raids

Dad had dug a hole for the shelter big enough for a swimming pool almost, then my sister & I wheeled...

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD

PEOPLE IN STORY: Joyce Dee, nee Blackledge, a child in the war LOCATION OF STORY: Lancashire MAIN AREA OF...

Grandma's Childhood memories No. 2

My Uncle Bob was always about doing the work using a horse called 'Diamond'. We children loved to...