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The Evacuees

However, on returning from church I left the book on the table and my sister Margaret fed the pages to the...

Bombs and Knitting needles

We had a very large garden and as my Dad was an Engine Driver he was in a "reseved occupation" and...

An Evacuee Story

We were all marched to Heathway station to go by train to Paddington, and then onto Hungerford where we...

Rene Recalls

However, my friends started to leave for hom as the bombing of London hadn't materialised. I decided to...

Evacuated Brothers

It was a cold morning in August 1939 my brother Les and I were waiting for the train to pull into platform...

Memories of a Disabled Evacuee

Because I was lame due to Polio I caught in 1937, I was not allowed to accompany them, but sent instead to...

Guests of the Bishop

We travelled very slowly with frequent stops, and arrived at Chichester Station at about 3.00 pm. The...

Childhood Memories

When we got to Lancashire a large building had been requisitioned to take the school, but it wasn‘t...

Why Hatfield

THE WHITE CART HORSE

He rented the meadow behind Palmer's Garage in Tollesbury, Mr George Brand, who was in charge of the...

Return of the Dunkirk soldiers at Ampthill

There was a landing strip there in the middle of the park, and when bombers got shot up so badly they...

WHICH BOMB WILL FALL ON ME?

PEOPLE IN STORY: Ken Bolton, aged 3 in 1939 LOCATION OF STORY: London MAIN AREA OF INTEREST: Childhood...

Childhood in Dunley

There was an American hospital at Burlish and the soldiers used to be transported through Dunley to Shobden...

The War Injuries of a Baby

My mother, Frances, was not three months pregnant when the first doodlebugs started falling and I well...

Helping On My Father's Farm

We lived in the house, my father and stepmother, two sisters and four evacuees — two of these were...

John Rowlett's War

I was fed up with the job.Our next door neighbour was a gentleman named Mr McKay and he was the Personnel...

The Survivor

Roy said that at the time of the bombing he had been out on deck with a friend, telling him, "I...

A child in Chelmsford

There were also our soldiers on the rec., manning the barrage balloons and the very noisy anti aircraft...

EVACUEE RETURNS TO BOMBING

I never did return to Kewstoke, and remained in Birmingham throughout the air raids, and until the end of...

PLAYING WITH RADAR CHAFF

PLAYING WITH CHAFF I remember playing on Skegness beach next to a dismantled pillbox, where one day I was...

A Young Girl’s War

My mum and I were together, I was lying on a little bed and mother went into the entrance of the shelter,...

Moving to Hereford

There were three boys and three girls, but all, except the youngest girl, Freda, were much older than us......

From "Gofer" to Gonner!

THEY HAVE BEEN TRANSCRIBED LARGELY AS WRITTEN FROM HIS DOCUMENT, "FROM GOFER TO GONNER" BY JOHN...

From a Castle to a College

My school, Newcastle Church High School was evacuated to Alnwick where we were billeted with families for...

Memories from Gwen Hayton (Bayley)

Whitchurch was a town where the German planes used to fly over regularly to get to London to drop the...

Ladies of the Land

I must have been in my early twenties when my friend and I decided to join the Land Army. I didn't go...