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Travelling Light

I was the only child of Lily and Albert Taylor, and I must have been 6 or 7, when I used to...

THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

In 1941, whilst staying in Suffolk with my brother and sister, we were out for a walk when we saw a very...

I was only six when the war broke out

I didn't see or hear any bombs, although they were dropped on Leeds, Wakefield and Sheffield, we were...

My first visit to Weston

My aunt and two cousins from Leominster were going for a holiday in Weston. It took 24 hours to get us out...

Mikes Evacuation

Michael Evans was aged 8 in 1944, he remembers living in Carshalton, Surrey, South London... Around the...

Crossing the Atlantic as an evacuee

My mother was taking me away from England and the war on the ship 鈥淎ntonia鈥� from Liverpool to...

A Sunderland Teenager in World War 2

There was a bomb shelter at the bottom of my street so when a bomb was dropped me, my mum and my...

Memories of two World Wars

Everyone in the family had to help, including my mother, a land girl, the German prisoners and me, and we...

The Naughty Boyscout

What i saw, to this day still can't believe - pete was stretched out over a unexploded bomb... The...

Air battle on August 15th 1940 - an excerpt from a diary

On August 15th 1940, the day Hitler said he was going to march through London, Mummy, Daddy and I were...

Details that affect a whole life

My mother was a qualified nurse working at Bethnal Green Hospital and my father was and Instructor in the...

The Women's Land Army Part 1: Starting Out 1943

So off we trooped around the hall to see what was on and we saw the Land Army so we signed up...

Manchester girl's memory of the war

We dug an air-raid shelter in our back garden... I used to work with someone didn't like cheese &...

A Market Shoot Up

Mum was a Haberdasher for Elliston & Caver where Debenhams is now in Oxford and she used to take me...

A child in the war years

My parents had a hotel and pub in a village in the Yorkshire Dales... We didn't get many bombs as there...

Home Guard

Jack Millington was my Grandad... His one memory was of being on duty, at night, protecting the pits and...

Evacuees tale

Having just adjusted to my new situation, war was declared and on the 1st September the school was...

How the War Changed The Outlook For Women

We had an Anderson shelter given to us by the government in the garden it filled up with water and the...

One of ten

I had a wooden doll one Christmas and my brother one up from me in age had a railway engine complete with...

Julie Allen's War Memories of an Infant

I lived with my Mum, Dad, and older brother in a 3rd Floor flat above Lennards the shoe shop, which was on...

Tales of an Evacuee

The second billet was in the small village of Cemmaes with a younger couple, Mr & Mrs Davis, who had...

A Long Evacuation

Again technically I stopped being an evacuee when I reached my 18th birthday but socially there was no...

Queuing and caring

One of the things I did a lot of during the war, was queuing... In Liverpool I was housed with the...

鈥� Childhood in Manchester during the War鈥�

We lived in suburban Manchester, near the searchlights and flashlights that lit up the sky which were...

Mr Calow the teacher

The smokers were Mr Calow's main targets, he always ran out of money mid-week, so he would borrow money...

Memories of Epsom

There was a very strong Boys Brigade and Girls Brigade in Epsom, and it was horrible to hear the ones who...