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At Mereworth Primary School and Out of School Leisure.

It always included German and British planes performing various battle or bombing actions amid orchards,...

Cornwall to London for most of WW2

When finally I stood waving to my Mother and Father on the train which puffed from Penryn Station London...

My Memories of War Years

I worked at Liptons in Freeman Street, one brother was a ship's plumber on the docks of Grimsby, one at...

HOME GUARD IN DUNGIVEN NORTHERN IRELAND

As a young boy I went to The National School which is now the Church of Ireland Church Hall beside the...

memories of Taunton Road, Kent

Our beloved step-father had died through an accident a few months earlier and my sister Kathleen was...

Childhood memories

Once a week we went to the school clinic for orange juice, milk tokens, Vairol malt and syrup of figs to...

Evacuation

I was five years old when the war broke out, living in Streatham, South London... Suddenly an air raid...

Bombs Over Barry

My mother is a teacher and once a month when she recieves her salary, she treats me to tea in "The...

No beer at the pub near Horstmann's in Bath

I have heard the "pint glass" part of this story in a slightly different form from someone else,...

A Child's War

We had to get a bus from Newcastle, sometimes change at Hexham and wait for the Wark bus... We moved into...

Alec's Narrow Escape

Along with his older sister, Pam, and many other neighbourhood friends including Raymond Reynolds and David...

Armoured Tanks and Other Things

Thora Kelly, Rose & Lily Kirby. Rose & Lily stayed at the Y.M.C.A. and several other girls helped...

My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 3

With Mrs Taylor lived her daughter and small granddaughter, as well as Edna and myself... Poor Edna stood...

Out of the frying pan …

When war broke out, we were living in County Durham near Billingham where my father worked — at a...

Hull to Heslington, an Evacuees Story.

I was nine years old when the War began and together with my eight year old brother we were avacuated to...

Long Day at School - lasting 4 years!

On arrival at St. George's Road School in Hull, we children were herded into the Hall by the teachers,...

The Clydebank Blitz by Kathryn McKerrall

Young girls and boys would dress up in their nicest outfits on Sundays and walk from Dalmuir West to Old...

Roy’s War

The park keeper at the turnstile was in fact a guard, we then walked across the ark to a bandstand, which...

Morwenstow Memories

I was born and brought up in the Parish of Morwenstow, north Cornwall... Somehow Miss Dutton persuaded...

Lorrie Jones' Memories of the Home Front in Oxford

Name Lorrie Jones Interview Date 20th April 2005 Subjects covered Home Guard, Evacuees, Digging for...

Peter Wood's Wartime Memories

We used to sit in the kitchen having our meals during the Battle of Britain and see the German Bombers...

A Wartime Paddle

After the fall of France in June 1940, Hastings was designated by the War Office as a probable landing site...

Early Memories

Clapham Junction railway and and goods yard was at the end of the road, a five minute walk away. One...

Days off from school

HMS Warwick had been torpedoed by a German U-boat off Trevose Head February 20th 1944 half the crew were...

Land Army Days

In the Land Army we all had a nickname and my nickname was Dimples, Smiler, Happy or Giggling Kate... The...

My Father's War, a poem reflecting army and civilian life.

Nightly, as they bombed your desert column, you took comfort from the tank's iron walls, emerging one...