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The Home Front - A Nottingham Family's Memories

As the bombs fell during the Nottingham blitz in 1941, my grandmother decided to move her young family to a...

The Coupon Dress

After she arrived in Liverpool and crossed the Mersey to Wallasey she went upstairs to change into this new...

An Unhappy Evacuee

So in fact we had what they called an 鈥渆arly war鈥� when the evacuees started going out, it...

Fetching the Fish and Chips

Looking out of my window one morning, I saw Army Lorries driving into a drive opposite where a Mrs...

Another Kind of War

United by Christmas

His name was Mr. Zarne and he was a German. Our family may have been the only one in London where the...

More stories from Bradford in Wartime

There were photos and silhouettes of British, German and Italian aircraft....

Walter Crouch - some memories of childhood

We lived in Ticehurst, a small village on the Kent/Surrey border, 17 miles from Hastings and 10 miles from...

A German Spy? And a crashed German Bomber

And a crashed German Bomber. A German bomber was shot down early one morning by a Spitfire during I think...

Constant alert

Food consisted of sausage meat patties, dried eggs and corned beef which was on ration and potatoes all of...

The Day War Broke Out.

We Wrens often raced to the Air Raid Shelter with our gasmasks, weraing stout boots, steel helmets and not...

HOME WAS A TRANSIT HOUSE

My name is Richard Davies and I was born in 1939 just prior to the War and obviously I was a young...

Wartime in South Shields

Further into the war we spent nights in our shelter having been woken up, told to hurry up and get the...

SIRENS AND BLACKOUTS

My father was an air raid warden and every time the siren went off, we had to leave the house and go...

I Named my Cat after Fieldmarshal Montgomery

Gwen Jones celebrated her eighth birthday on the ship taking her parents and elder sister Phyllis to...

Wartime in Sheffield

During the war she had put her furniture into storage as we fought the house might get attacked, as it...

A COMMONWEALTH MEMORY

My parents came back to Glasgow by boat with me as a new baby as he had worked for Yarrows on the...

My Ireland Home

We, the children of Charles Donald, who was in the Territorial Army as the war started and Gladys Elizabeth...

Mother's Wartime Garden, by Marguerite Patten

War-time gardening was hard work but very satisfying and productive....

Boyhood in Southampton

Father moved family from Southampton to Bishops Waltham due to night raids... Father cycled to work at...

I Was The Only Child Of Lily and Albert Taylor

I Was The Only Child Of Lily and Albert Taylor...

A Christmas Party with American Soldiers.

An invitation came from Sudbury Hospital, the American Air Force Hospital, just down the road, for us...

Wartime Footballer in Belfast

It was very interesting to read the Edddie Davis article "A FOOTBALLERS WARTIME STORY IN DERRY" It...

I was 10 years old at the outbreak of war

My younger sister and I were evacuated to Worksop where we lived at the Castleton Brewery initially before...

Hilary Halpern's Recollections of Being a Child During WW2

I recall being evacuated to Wales and staying in Tylers Town with my Aunt Molvern and Uncle Arthur who was...

Candles In The Dark

You had to light the candle, then turn it on its side to let the wax drip onto the saucer and then...