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A Child's Eye View of the Birmingham Blitz: Part 3

A mile away, on the Birmingham Road out of Stratford, Dad was helping to establish Alvis's repair shop...

Childhood Memories of a Family at War (Part 1)

His name was Christopher Baden Powell. Mother was a nursing sister at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford......

Memories of a Wartime Childhood, part 2

A small beach had formed near the railway bridge where the river came through from Ewell village......

Child of the Blitz:London

It was our first sight of what we later found out to be a barrage balloon, which was going to be a...

A Child’s Memories of 1939-1945

They flew over Burton Bradstock, having crossed the channel en route to bomb Bristol, Bath and Yeovil......

Evacuation

At the end of the Banbury Road there were four of us left and we knocked at a door and a very...

The War Years (Part 1) 1939 - 1941 : extract from a personal history

For the time being I continued at Holy Trinity School, and was more or less an onlooker of the war at that...

An Incredible Departure

Because we didn't own a car, Mum and us four children all piled into the front cab alongside the sole...

Evacuated: From East London to Ashby Magna

The farmer and his wife were going to get a land girl but agreed to take us instead, once again there was...

The Queen Mary's Hospital for Children - Carshalton

The following photographs of the Second World War and Post War years were kindly contributed by: Miss J F...

A Bury Boys War

In June 1943, the 94th USAAF bomb groups B17 Flying Fortresses arrived at Rougham Airfield. Eight and nine...

To Die For Musolini -Part 4

Polyphemus is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the sea-king Phorcys; therefore though he...

Childhood: Elsie's Story September 1939: Evacuated from London to Bath

I was getting very used to this new life when my mother came down to Bath for a visit and then told...

Early Childhood during WW2

Further up the street, on the same side, was one particular house that had been bombed, looking in the...

Any Volunteers Out There?? Childhood Memories of Chaldon, Surrey

The German 'push' into Holland and Belgium after 'doing' Norway and the stepping stone...

Bury Boys' War

In June 1943, the 94th USAAF bomb groups B17 Flying Fortresses arrived at Rougham Airfield... Eight and...

A Child's View of the 39-45 War

At the outbreak of war, the owners of Tilegate decided to move further away from the southwest corner of...

London to Lakeland

The train journey I recall very clearly mainly because the carriages were so full mostly by soldiers and...

More memories of WW2

It was in 1943 that I had my first trial for Newcastle United and I signed on amateur books Stan Seymour...

Excitements and Fear as a Young Boy in Wartime: In Northampton

Once a week at Stimpson Avenue School they had what was called the ‘Penny Pictures’, where...

The Second Time Round

Once an escaping enemy bomber jettisoned his bombs after being chased by RAF fighters; they landed in the...

War with Germany as viewed by a 5-9 year-old.

Every home and business had black paper stuck over their windows, which were kept tight shut to keep any...

A TEENAGER`S WAR:In London

I was 12 years old when war was declared on 3rd September 1939 and living in a Victorian tenement estate in...

Memories of a country boy: In Gloucestershire

My elder relatives have told me that the Germans were not allowed to roam freely or go into the nearest...

Post-War Memories of a German Child in the Russian Occupied Zone

Overnight Russian was made a compulsary language, but there were no competent teachers; they were still...

Fly Away Peter, Come Back Paul

As he now swiftly worked his way around windows, the News reader was revealing first the tale of the...