Arriving on the village green of Wonersh in Surrey, my two younger sisters and I, along with nine other...
We had to move to West Ham to my Aunt Flo, mummy's sister. I remember being at the pictures when the...
I was evacuated privately, to North Wales — Dolgellau, Beddgellect, Llewing, Portmadoc and then to...
The three nearby beaches; the dunes, the rocky beach and sandy beach with swings became our playground. In...
Whilst there the aerodrome at Castle Donnington was built with squad's of Wellington Bombers stationed...
The schol was very big and accommodating both boys and girls,I would put the figure at approx 6-700...
Later in the war my father decided not to go down the garden to the shelter when the siren went saying he...
A German plane had dropped a bomb in the centre of the village, demolishing the Sunday School, and killing...
I was evacuated wihin a few days with my Croydon school to Eastbourne, but my mind has completely blanked...
The Turvey Special Constables used to be called into Bedford on a night to relieve the Bedford policemen,...
They were a bit unruly and decided to ride the steer on Wyrral, and climbed the monument in Glastonbury,...
I was stationed partly at Croydon, where there was a lot of bombing....
The main fleet — the battleships - had all gone to Scapa Flow out of the way but you used to get...
He had an interview with Anita Cochrane, at Bangor British Legion. I remember tracer bullets and lights,...
He was a schoolteacher evacuated to the nearby village of Hales with his school from Manston in Kent and...
Charles CarmichaelI was born in the USA because my mother was posted to the British Embassy in Washington....
We had a cellar below the house, which doubled up as a shelter,one day of bombing sent us all down there,...
My cousin had the same name as me — Christine Powell — but her mum and dad, my uncle and aunt,...
Another young girl had dinky metal hair curlers in her hair which she hadn't removed when the sirens...
This airfield was hard to get through as what had been left of the original road was transgressed by many...
I remember well 1941 seeing the glow of London burning from the blitz and then the dog fights in the skies...
Soon after we were sent away, from Eastbourne as evacuees with the school to Radlett in Hertfordshire;...
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