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Early School Days in Bishop Auckland

There was a world war on, when at the age of five in 1942 I started my education at Cockton Hill...

WW2 in Mid Kent

A German aircraft, a Heinkel 111 if I remember correctly was shot down one night- probably in 1941, and the...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 1 - evacuation

My sister Beryl going to one home and Len and myself being sent to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hooker at the...

From the Eyes of a Young Boy in Horsham

On one occasion, during early morning there appeared, without any warning, flying at tree level, a German...

A Child's View of WW2 in Portsmouth and Cirencester

My Wifes Story At the begining of the war my wife Joan who was 2 and her brother Bill 4, cousins and...

My Recollection Of The War As Seen Thrrough The Eyes Of A Child

Whenever I took that car outside to ride it all the kids would pile on it as I was the only child...

A Baby's War

But many things changed after September 1939: the car, a lovely black Standard 10 with a rear boot door...

Evacuees and Americans - A Child's View of War in Ipswich

Imagine my father's horror following an incendiary raid in the road next to ours, when he came off...

Constance Benjamin Chepstow Memories

It was sensible to do, and Spence Thomas, of course his wife and children were in North Wales, but his...

Wartime Memories (1939-45) of Frederick Davies

Met at Lewes station by helpers and given my first car ride to the then Cinema-De-Luxe, School Hill, High...

My War

Not before he had seen the Tate and Lyle factory go up in flames the night the bombing was very heavy on...

Maggie Fink Childhood Memories -Part 1

Transcript of an interview with Maggie Fink nee Jones, by her grandson Luke Mottershead as part of a school...

Childhood In Wartime Yate

My father was a bricklayer, he worked for Rangers, which was a building firm in Yate and my mother worked...

Child of War

When teacher said take of your Mickey Mouse, there was a distinct racket of rubbery thuds as we all threw...

My First Evacuation - Conclusion.

As it happened the ‘normal course of events’ was overtaken by the activities of Adolph Hitler...

An Evacuee Remembers

The prettiest and most appealing children were chosen first, of course, rather like choosing a pet from a...

An Evacuee's experiences:London to East Anglia

From North London we were evacuated to East Anglia, and we took the train from Liverpool Street with the...

Digging for Victory/Fire Watching while a Pupil at Dunstable Grammar School

Before the war my father had as a hobby, a smallholding at the back of our house in Luton Road, Dunstable,...

My War and Evacuation Memories

Beryl and I were chosen by a Mr. & Mrs. Davis who had two older children, Alan who was in the Royal...

Air Raid Shelters

About 1.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 3 September, an enemy bomber jettisoned his load clear of London and the stick...

Childhood in Ryton, Part 1

He opened the front door and it blew my Dad back up the stairs. And we used to come from Nana's back...

WWII Evacuee: From Hounslow to Wales

In the cinema we lapped up Lesley Mitchell and others yelling the latest filmed News; Alvar Lidell, Stuart...

Nazis on the Playing Field

So I found myself posted to the 1st Battalion of King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles, which together with...

The Blitz According to Jean Anderson

There, Joyce,May, Lilian, Jack, baby David and I all piled on and went to sleep... At home we feasted on...

My War by Peter G Moody. Childhood Experiences 2 - An Evacuee in Headcorn, and the Battle of Britain

Eileen Austin and her sister Jean, who came from Chatham, were staying in the village with their aunt....

My father's call up.

He brought presents, a white silk parachute that he was hoping to use in some way, a beautifully carved...