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Blitz Kids - Mitcham

Blitz Kids — Mitcham....

Two small boys

Sadly, he lost his life at Arnham, never to be a train driver, or go to Blackpool, Morecambe, or Fleetwood...

Mount Tamar School 8th May 1945

Teachers — Miss Powell, Miss Gibbs, Mrs McKenzie, Miss Lobb. Additional Item Popular dances at the...

Growing Up in Wartime

We were issued with ration books for food and clothing coupons. food was scarce and dad grew lots of...

School days by Natalie Lyon

Because we hadn't had one before i was confused and didn't know what to do, but my mother led me...

Lake of Murray

What Did You Do In The War Grandma?

I was due to go into the Military Nursing Home but it was bombed and it was a heap of rubble when...

A Bomb in our Garden?

My parents belonged to the Salvation Army and we lived at 5 Kirby Road in Dunstable. My brother was 19 and...

EVACUATION OF MY SCHOOL FROM LONDON TO HOVE AND CHERTSEY

My school, St Saviours and St Olave's Grammar School for Girls in the New Kent Road, was evacuated to...

Manchester boy's memory of the war

One particular teacher was showing us an experiment in Science, but she did something wrong & it...

The Phoney War At Weymouth

On the evening of 9th August 1939 when living in Wyke Regis, my Dad took Mum and me to the end of...

Childhood Memories

There was a large American camp at Southstoke, convoys of jeeps containing military personnel would...

Evacuation - 1940-45

Children's medical problems were chilblains, thigh sores from short trousers and Wellingtons, Scabies...

The Pain of Separation

I was born in 1934 and aged 8 was evacuated with her brother John 7 and sister Rosemary 6 from Greenwich to...

Booby Trap

We lived in Horley, Surrey amidst lovely countryside and I remember the barrage balloons at the end of...

Some thoughts of a wartime childhood

I can't remember very much but I do vividly remember being woken up some nights at Putteridge Park when...

Farming Camp School

On Saturday, June 10, 1944, four days after the Allies landed in France, I left inner city Birmingham for...

Wartime childhood

I grew up in South East London, where my father was a draughtsman in the Woolwich Arsenal and my mother was...

THE WHITE CART HORSE

He rented the meadow behind Palmer's Garage in Tollesbury, Mr George Brand, who was in charge of the...

Working to Keep the Planes in the Air.

There were constant dog-fights between the RAF and the German planes... Day after day German fighters were...

Childhood Memories

I learned that Hitler released prisoners of war and sent all soldiers home as an act of mercy... When the...

Bananas and cucumber sandwiches!

Bananas and cucumber sandwiches. Things like cucumber snadwiches fro tea on mum's half day off were...

The Farmhouse Cellar

The Farmhouse Cellar...

My childhood memories of the war in North Devon

I came across a lot of bombed areas in London and I stayed there for a couple of years before I went...

Bombed in the School Clinic

We were dragged from our beds and taken to the air-raid shelter at Pelham Square. It was very dark, and I...

Aunt Dolly's Bananas and the banana Queue

Aunt Dolly is well over 90 now and is no way “bananas....