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Memories of War

In Totley my brother Paddy and I used to wander around quite a bit. We were told not to accept sweets from...

My Secret War

UNDAUNTED, Walter and myself roller-skated the three miles to the airport at Dyce, occupied by RAF Fighter...

On Being An Evacuee

In my case this meant being put on a bus for Beaumont, on Beacon Hill, where, having lugged our trunks...

WW2 Childhood Memories as an Evacuee

Gorse Farm鈥� was a cosy, homely place, 鈥淎untie鈥� and 鈥淯ncle鈥� as we called our...

Wonderful Memories of Tarleton

Gorse Farm鈥� was a cosy, homely place, 鈥淎untie鈥� and 鈥淯ncle鈥� as we called our...

The War Through the Eyes of a Child

I loved being there but mother hated it and arranged for her brother to take us to her own parents in Sale,...

Memories of Tarleton

Gorse Farm鈥� was a cosy, homely place, 鈥淎untie鈥� and 鈥淯ncle鈥� as we called our...

Memories

Wherever we were billeted we were expected to go out all day whatever the weather, so Mum used to go down...

Air raids in Cheltenham

Smoke pots, used to create smoke to protect factories in Gloucester and Cheltenham from bombing, they being...

Personal Memories of World War 2

Margaret and I were the last two in the crocodile and when Mrs Read, the lady who had said she would take...

School Days in Trowbridge: More Memories

Back to the shelters - obviously these were not adequate and so it was arranged that during an air raid...

Memories of the Peoples War.

Not far away from where I lived was Carpenters Road, which had lot of factories which had been bombed out...

War in Cheltenham

Now she rode everywhere on a bicycle, father bought one for each of us, mine a little large to last, then...

Memories of the Evacuees

A gentleman who lives in Lostwithiel also an evacuee, who settled back in Cornwall, approached Josie and...

Village Life - from Evacuees to the Americans

We had a new, talking about evacuees, the next schoolmaster that came, Mr Rose, he came from Gravesend with...

A Child in Wartime Skegness

We also bought sticky tape for our windows to prevent flying glass in the event of bomb blast. Brick bomb...

A Kid's War

We moved yet again, this time far away up north to Buxton in Derbyshire, and there we survived the rest of...

Eve's (Evacuee's) War

As told to a class of secondary school pupils. I was four years old when, after the Dunkirk rescue in May...

A Teenager's Memory

The noise became almost unbearably loud until at last I saw from my bedroom window the flying bomb with...

Burma before the Japanese Invasion

This went on for a few weeks until Dad attended a high level meeting in Rangoon one day and came home to...

Chickens!Childhood Memories

Chickens" I exclaimed in disgust, "there isn't 2 pennorth of meat on them". "There not...

Red Beads for Remembrance

My eldest sister, Elsie, joined the WRNS, and before she left she gave me a necklace of red glass beads to...

Grandmama's War

My younger sister and I were lucky, because our mother came with us as an escort, but lots of children and...

WW2 Memories

I cannot remember how much longer I stayed as an evacuee in Rushden but I know I returned home to Chiswick...

A War Time Memory

At the same time a theatre nurse began to remove the towel from my leg... I feel indebted to the skill of...

A Child's Eye View of Wartime

Although Heaton Park housed hundreds of young RAF lads, there were times when so many were sent there that...