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Anne Lee's wartime memories

I then travelled down from Scotland with my brother, sisters and my mum on a night train. One of the...

The Voices of Whinfield

Rhode Island reds scrathed for seeds Aylesbury ducks for maize and kitchen scraps. At Eastertime, we boiled...

A Civilian's Story: Hair Raising Memory.

I remember the bombing had stopped for awhile about 1941 so my eleven year old sister and I at 15 persuaded...

Dornier 217 bombs miss Ewell East Station

Dornier 217 bombs miss Ewell East Station...

58 raids in 49 days.

Dodging Dartmoor mists and Shorpiter Radar mast brought 2 flying Forts’ emergency landings, both by...

Why Does My Mother Cry?

The three of us arrived at Weston-Super-Mare railway station in Somerset, to find that the train was...

Elsie's Childhood Recollections

My Dad who was in the Civil Defence was recalled for duty because of a big raid in Manchester... When the...

A child's war

It was exciting too eating breakfast with unthawed snow on the carpet round our feet, a heavy snowstorm...

A close run thing

Underneath the lantern, By the barrack gate Darling I remember The way you used to wait T'was there...

SOME SMALL MEMORIES

There were many Government posters about giving good advice such as 'is your journey really...

The Houseless Window

My elder brother, Roy, used to go to the Palace Theatre and one night, as he and his friends were coming...

fall out

I was the eldest one at home at the time as my eldest sister was in service in the village and my...

Some Reflections of Army Life

These varied from the smell of German barracks to the smell of rotting carcasses, horses, cattle etc. to...

School Days

Sometimes we'd find ourselves in huge classrooms because of the shortage of teachers. We had desks and...

My Time Without dad

After Dad left we moved home several times because Mum had to go where the work was i.e. on the land. My...

My Life As A young Woman In The War Years

I lived at home with my father Frank, brother Freddie and sister Sylvia... Your brother Freddie was a miner...

Wartime Childhood

There was no electricity installed, lighting was parafin lamps and candles, Dad had a tilley lamp for the...

Evacuated to Redhill

I was evacuated twenty five miles outside London to Redhill in Surrey. The school was in the flight path...

Schoolday Horror

My brothers were sent to the Duke of York army school in Braunton in Devon. The rest of us moved to a...

Women's Work !

I drove Lorries full of tarmac or concrete to build Alfold by-pass and then Dunsfold Aerodrome with the...

Childhood Memories

I lived at Glebe Farm, Glentham with my mother, uncle, Grandma and Grandad and my sister Joan who was 16...

Evacuation to England and Scotland before the German Occupation of Guernsey

Roy and Angela Bougourd interviewed by John Gaisford 12/3/05. My name is Roy Bougourd, born in Guernsey in...

Peggy Allen's War

Born in London Evacuated to Puckley, Kent A few weeks prior to war starting children were sent to Canada...

A Guernsey Evacuee family in Linclonshire

My Father on arrival in England was separated from his Wife, and as all men were submitted for Military...

Wartime Memories

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

Evacuated from London

My dad found a job in Hatfield and my parents rented a place in Luton but we used to go back to...