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Snippets of Life In Thornbury

I was born in the local pub called The Barrel in Thornbury during September 1938. I can also remember my...

'Queen Bee'

I was learning German at Hymers College, in Hull and was very pleased to be told by the Hotel Manageress,...

Machine-gunned by a Spitfire

I was coming home to lunch at the same time and this aircraft then passed over us, being machine-gunned by...

Innocent Minds

Evelynn Mc laughlyn moved to london from Balana co Mayo during World War 2 Evelynn was a young teacher and...

Boyhood in Toddington

My mother worked at Commer Cars, Biscot Road in Luton and I spent my days at St George's Church School...

Wartime Memories in Cornwall

I remember as a boy the food rationing and the tiny piece of butter allowed per person for a whole week. It...

1939-45 early memories as an evacuee

My aunt and her two children slept in the back bedroom and we had the box room and the bed filled the...

Early Memories of the War.

My mother was in hospital having my younger sister, and my father, who worked for the British Oil Co., was...

Broken Biscuits for German POWs

We used to visit our grandparents in Scotland - one set in Glasgow the other in Greenock....

A Toddler's Tale

My father was in the RAMC and sometime in 1941, when I must have been aged just over a year, my mother,...

Outens experiences

George went to a secondary modern school and Doreen went to grammar school. George had 3 brothers &...

One Very Big Bang

By 1943 I had a place at S.E.L Technology College and had to travel each day on two buses or a bus...

Life in Norfolk

Fortunately I went to stay at my Granny Norfolk's cottage in Helhoughton with my twin brother, mother...

Elsie Aldcroft's Story

I started work in private service at Brantwood Hall, which years later became Cheadle Town Hall... There...

Gas Masks and Souvenirs

I was mostly evacuated to diiferent places,Kent ,Sussex before the blitz where I watched German Dogfighters...

return to Guernsey - a song

God bless those kindly priests and nuns, With all who came to aid, Those Fathers, true Don Bosco's...

The Voice of Chamberlain in the Wilderness

We got to know the Native Commissioner of the Inyati area, a man called Floris Johnson. The Native...

Reg & Hylda Mutten -Part 3 the conclusion !!!!

Hylda had joined up in 1943 at the age of 20 and had been based at Dollar in Scotland and Glenarm in...

For my Mother — The Lost Years

I didn't know a lot about the war as Polgeath was another world, and Auntie and Uncle Oliver were so...

Re: Alexander's story

I remember once a German aircraft swooped in a bombed my house while I was in the Anderson shelter, it was...

A very lucky evacuee

Grown ups busy, children play among the tables, standing there in roads bedecked with myriad flags and...

An Evacuee to Derbyshire.

June 2nd, 1940 I was evacuated with my brother to the cottage of Amy and Stan Dean in Bradbourne near...

Memories of Radcliffe

The V2 rocket was dropped in Radcliffe in 1941 and it landed on a chicken farm, which supplied the local...

War Education

Trevena, Treven, Tregatta, Treknow, Trewarmett, Becom, Trebarwith and Beslow were pretty villages all in a...

Bouncing Bombs

It lined itself up with Rockbeare straight, on the A30, too low for bombing really. We went down to...

The Live Round

Mom's second brother, Uncle Len, was in a reserved occupation, working in the foundry at the Birmid,...