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Memories of the war

, so, back we went on the train to New Holland, then on the big steamer to the pier in Hull and...

Kingswood at War - A boyhood memory

Bicycles were essential items in our family, for the car was laid up in the garage for the duration, and...

My Memories

In 1939 - start of war I lived in a village called Burgh, my father was unable to join the army due...

From Brazil to Scotland

During this time Brazil joined Britain at war 鈥� this lead to some ships being bombed along the...

memories

There is a walled-in garden of memory at Agecrof Cemetery to the people of Salford who lost there lives,...

Schooldays in wartime Plymouth

One day, probably about 1940 our gang of five lads were going home from school when a German bomber swooped...

A very lucky evacuee part 2

I together with my sister Eileen were evacuated to Reading from London on the first of September 1939... We...

Housing evacuees from Tyneside in a country house in Northumberland, 1939

I well remember the hard work of making them habitable, scrubbing the dusty floorboards before putting down...

Evacuated To Hertfordshire And Wales

I can remember sleeping in a cellar with my family in Islington the night before I was evacuated again,...

The yellow convoy

They sing the songs of Ulster, with all their lusty might... They need sing songs of Ulster, these...

Suspicious Packages and Morrison shelters

For some time my father, mother and I slept in this shelter every night because we lived in quite a...

My War Memories and Thoughts

And later when we saw German troops invading Russia I thought Hitler and Germany could not possibly win....

May 1941

Alan, three years my senior, sat tall leaning against the garden wall behind the seat, looking out over the...

Reading could have damaged our health !

Barbara and I were evacuated to Rushden in Northampton, when she was 3 to give us a break from the bombs,...

Wedgebury Childhood memories

I lived with my parents, Rose and Alfred Wedgbury, and my older brother, David, near Borstal Heath. I have...

Wartime recollections when I was a child

They were evacuated to Stoney Stratford and then to New Bradwell both adjoining Wolverton in Bucks, now all...

My War Years 鈥� 1939/45

An Evacuee's Story

In May 1940 my brother and I arrived at Waterloo to start our journey to Bridgewater in Somerset. Mrs...

Wartime in Simmons Brewery, Reading

I was too young to go in the forces so when I left school I went to work as a clerk in...

Jennifer Amos' Memories of the Home Front in Oxford

Name Mrs Jennifer Amos Interview Date 6th May 2005 Subjects covered Morrison Shelters, Evacuation, Make do...

Hitler Hated My Family

With what we could save from the bombing, We moved in with my auntie Nell, My gran and grandpa, mum and me,...

Patriotic immigrant families

Nat was invalided out of the RAF Jack was a Cpl in the RAF Philip was a Major in the RAMC Benjamin...

The Home Front

His 鈥渇ight on the beaches鈥� speech to Parliament at about that time made a great impression on...

My Childhood Memories of World war Two

I stayed with my Mum and my sister Betty, but my older sisters were sent to private homes in Wales. I went...

Capel Curig during World War 2

I was only a small child during world war, and the small village where I lived was not exactly a target for...

Close Encounter with a Doodlebug

It had landed about a mile and a half away on the other side of Watling Street on a avenue of houses...