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Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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A Memorable Poem

My Mam and I left our home in Thurmaston to stay with my maternal Grandparents in Barsby — a hamlet...

Youthful Memories

We used to get parcels from Canada, dried milk and coca powder. We had pigs and chickens, the pig being the...

Peter Sarah’s Memories of Evacuation to Hendra Farm in Stithians, Cornwall

My name is Peter Sarah and my story begins at 10.30 a.m. at Paddington Station where my mother put me, aged...

Sea Grave for Smashed Planes

When I was fifteen I was an apprentice fitter for Hubert Scott Paine at the British Power boat Company...

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Shoe Shops and Gas Masks

Before we were married my husband joined the Territorial Army; he also belonged to the Home Guard in...

Life as an Evacuee

My mother, her sister and my cousins boarded the wrong train and ended up in Lancashire in a little known...

Dining out on D-Dayicon for Story with photo

My grandparents owned a hotel, The Haven, on Falmouth seafront. After the war, my grandparents returned to...

One Over the Eight

When we left Birdingbury a year later some friends took Maggie in a covered cage to Marton, some miles...

Memories of London

At the age of sixteen Lily and her friends decided to attend dance lessons, as there was very little to...

Nursing days of the War.

In the war there was lots of air raids, me and my family used to hide in the cupboard under the stairs...

Childhood memories of WW2

The unsynchronised throbbing of the German bombers engines. As she passes the cups and saucers and prepares...

Victory

DINING CAR Having moved from my first job in Fleet Street to right near my home, the office I worked at was...

A goat called Glamour Girl

But you can see the character she is, was, and she won a goat in a whist drive, a pedigree goat called...

Twins' Memories of the War Years

When we were evacuated to our aunt and uncle's in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, I remember the G.Is, we used...

The roast potato at the end of my fork

First, Dad was not allowed to stay overnight when he came up from London to visit us. So Mum phoned Dad and...

Marcel Waves and the Jitterbug

My father was in the First World War; he was in India and was a Quarter Master Sergeant and then came out...

Burning Barrage Ballons

There was a war on and on our village green had appeared steel pots with chimneys called smokescreen...

Evacuees to Herefordshireicon for Story with photo

At the outbreak of war our family, mother father and we two children, were living at 67 Lansdown Road in...

William Hayhurst - Wartime Memories

I lived in Southest Street, Stockwell with Dad, Mum and sister Maureen. When the raids became heavy, Dad...

Flying Bombs Over Twickenham

Later that morning I went into Twickenham town centre where the bomb had fallen, next to a small hotel by...

Wartime Memory

My Mother and I shared a room with another of her sisters, then Uncle George and Auntie Winnie whose house...

Seraching for Arms and Legs!

I lived in Cardiff with my parents and 2 older brothers, and we were quite heavily bombed. Then the Germans...

Some Memories of the War Years

I remember my father had been at home the night of the Clydebank Blitz and he came up to my bedroom and...

Country Living

As there wasn't a bathroom in our house we used a long tin bath that was usually put in front of the...

Village Life in Rural Hampshire

The village had evacuees from Portsmouth and Southampton who found it difficult to fit into village life....

Recycling

The silver paper was sorted on a conveyor belt into different types e.g. aluminium, lead etc with the...

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