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Mid-Bedfordshire - my family at war on the Home Front

My father-in-law was by day a lorry driver taking vegetables produce to Covent Garden London... There was a...

Wartime Memories

My siblings & I experienced one bad bombing in Derby we went to next doors airaid shelter we could hear...

North Cumbrian Farms - PoWs, Hiring Days and Stray Bombs

Ronnie's work at Irthington Farm was helped by about a dozen or so German POWs who were transported...

Diana Bolton's Evacuation from Poplar to Norfolk

My sister, Betty Tremain and I went to a village in Norfolk....

A real display of flying skill!

He pointed out an area of the sky which was known as bomb alley — as every night there would be the...

Our Evacuee

We were lucky as our Londoner was Connie from a nice clean family. Some older children cried but Connie...

Evacuated to Dawlish

My earliest memory is of being met by my eldest brother John at Shepherd's Bush Station, and taken from...

Happy Evacuees

Maureen Miller, a girl the same age as me, was standing next to me, with her arm around me, comforting me...

WITH THE WAR IMMINENT

I had family so it was difficult for me to join the women's armed services, so I decided to apply for...

The Need For Coal (a ghost story)

Robin Hood Colliery owned by J&J Charlesworths Leeds Rd. I was managing Robin Hood Colliery and decided...

The Experiences of a Wartime Evacuee

I was with another evacuee, called Yvonne, and the family had two boys and a girl so we all had lots of...

Anudder View of the War

The Land Army, I think, was never given the recognition it deserved, and somewhow felt that as we were...

Evacuated to Great Bedwin

At the evacuation Daddy insisted that we went away and he found a good friend to have us, a young man who...

The Joys of Wartime Travel

Nevertheless, during 1941 when I was serving as a nurse at St. George's Hospital in London I needed to...

Mary Saunder's war

Eventually, my father made us move to Surrey, to a great aunt and uncle at Earlswood, near Redhill; my...

Christal's wartime childhood memories

I remember the soldiers — English and German — marching through the streets of our town. I...

Kathleen Green's Wartime Childhood

I had a little cardboard box with a gas mask and I left on the train with our schoolteacher.The whole...

Christmas under Canvas

Memories of World war Two.

In May 1941, my mother decided to take us all to visit our Grandma and Aunty who lived in Huyton, on the...

Abercromby Square

I had this house, in Heath Street off Myrtle Street and it was a big four bedroomed house with a cellar, a...

Damson Jam Sandwiches and Cod Liver Oil.

Damson Jam Sandwiches and Cod Liver Oil. Because we were on a farm in Gnosall, we had plenty of Geese eggs...

War Diary

I remember having to go the Cavell School where residents of that area were assembled in order to be...

My memories of the bombing raids

One of my sisters was in the A. R. P. tlaking to PC William and PC Millburn, she had just walked away...

Working on a farm in 1940

I was sent, with my school friend Joan to Burloes Farm, just outside Royston also in Hertforshire. The...

A POSH HOUSE

For me it was from Fulham to Woking. Oh yes and a Pekinese Ching-Ching and on top of all that at the...

Memories of VE Day