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A little girl's fears

We had a German girl to stay with us for a month and then my sister went to Hamburg with other girls...

Mostly Muck and Misery

No covers, but nobody moaned

My name is Mrs Doreen Hill, I was born in Durham, but our family including my Grandma all went down to...

SCHOOLBOY MEMORIES

Many ending up in the sea, We owned some land where we get kept chickens and over the hedge toward the...

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WW2 School Days

I remember the disappointment of Miss Welbank considering the sixth form study being too remote from the...

I Was The Only Child Of Lily and Albert Taylor

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

No More School

One in the Army, Uncle Fred who served in North Africa and Italy, and one in the Merchant Navy, Uncle Jim...

My childhood adventures in Yorkshireicon for Story with photo

After a month of being in Gateshead me my sister and brother got evacuated. My brother moved back home, and...

Double Whammy

A month later I was sitting in the living room of our two up two down terraced house on Back Hill, reading...

My War, through the eyes of an eight year old

I don't know if you have seen any world at war programs but there is one shot of a double Decker, but...

I walked out of the munitions factory on VJ Day.

We knew trouble was coming when Neville Chamberlain came back from Munich holding his piece of paper from...

A child in Birmingham and the air raid sheltersicon for Story with photo

We lived in Sheldon, Birmingham, during the war, although my Dad, Alfred Rudhall, was away for much of the...

A Child's War Story

Despite living in a safe area of Leeds, Peter witnessed many incendiary bombs... Peter's family was...

Childhood memories

Kettering was never bombed as it was fairly small to be a target but German planes did fly over on their...

It was totally different

We all sat there in rows clutching our gas masks, ready to go, when a friend of my Mother's who had a...

Looking after Children evacuated from Guernsey in Glasgow

Eventually all the children were either united with their parents or fostered by strangers and a number of...

My War (Aged 5-11)

During the worst period of air raids my mother and I slept in the Anderson shelter in the garden. To return...

Daphne Bradley's Story

This time we let lucky, there was this large mansion called The Cell, it was a fully staffed place with...

A Close Encounter and the Return to the Shelter

At the very start of the war aged 8 I was evacuated from Shepherd's Bush to Cowley in Oxfordshire, we...

There's Always Bloody Somethingicon for Story with photo

I later was in the 9th Squadron RAF in the Lancaster Bombers. Ruby's story I used to do spitfire...

Wartime in Holt

Holt was the birthplace of the Gresham Schools — schools for super-rich children run by the...

Gas Masks and Shelters

One night while my father was away in Southampton the sirens went for the first time in Salisbury, and my...

A Guernsey Student Nurse at Ascot

Well, I was eighteen, dying to get away from Guernsey, in those days you didn't just go off and get a...

School Days in Wartime.

My friend Margaret Lloyd and I stayed in Brailsford with my aunt and uncle on their farm for four weeks......

Sirhowy Valley bombings

So to find it they would follow the Sirhowy river but it was so well camouflaged that they passed it and...

Christmas Day in Changi, Singapore 1941

Our House was in Changi, Singapore, my father was an army officer and on Christmas day 1941 Hong Kong fell....

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