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Singing in the School Shelter

The air raid sirens went often in Appley Bridge as the German Bombers flew over in the direction of...

Wartime in quieter areas

It was usually me that had to go under the table.Three things that are printed on my mind are:Standing by...

Lost Childhood

I stayed in London until 1944 — when the ‘flying bombs’ started and was then taken to...

A Portsmouth wartime childhood

We would cross to Gosport by ferryboat to see Mum. Dad worked in the Dockyard taking incendiary bombs off...

V.E. DAY - Raising the Flag at Lanreath Church

There flew our flag, big as a postage stamp....

Wartime Memories

Occasionally at night there was the drone of German bombers approaching, aiming for Southampton, and the...

The Billeting Officer

Conesquently Mam had a visit from the Billeting Officer who looked over the house and as there was only two...

Churchill said "We'll Fight Them On The Beaches"

A neighbour in Ludgvan, Mr Samuel Reynolds had served in the Navy in the First World War and had contacts...

Wartime childhood

October 1940 - my brother and I were sent from Surrey to an uncle in Denshaw, near Oldham, because of the...

Middlesex Memories

My wife, Josephine, was born in 1938 in Enfield, Middlesex. One afternoon she went with her mother on the...

Countryside culture shock

I was born in 1940 in Chiswick, so my memories of war time London are vague, however I do remember the...

Evacuation

There were two children, a girl of six and a boy of three and a third child died the year before after...

Miss-spent youth

My mother's response was that "my daughter is not going to work in a factory". I went into the...

John Clough's Story

My two maiden aunts who lived nearby took three evacuee girls into their home and literally removed their...

The Road to Downing Street

That boy was me and the frequent errand for my Mother not only made me feel grown up but gave me the...

Invasion of Colwyn Bay

Colwyn Bay was a small quiet town where the war seemed very remote until one day it was overrun with...

War on the Farm

We had a 300 acre farm with milking cows, beef, growing oats, wheat and beans for cattle food too. Our two...

Not A Honeymoon But A Great Adventure

In 1940 I was 11 years old and I was evacuated with my school from Leytonstone, London to Tiverton. At the...

Ludlow in Wartime

We can remember as children collecting acorns to feed to the pigs, taking them down to a shop in Ludlow and...

Memories are made of this

The coverage of World War 2 memories - Spotlight 6th June involved memories of my visits by bicycle to the...

A Day in the life of a N.A.F.F.I. Girl

Another N.A.F.F.I. girl, called Peggy, and I were pleased when two German ladies, who worked at our Hostel...

Hiding in the Hedges - An Evacuees Story

I was born in 1938 in London and evacuated in 1941 to a residential nursery, in Tunbridge Wells, run by the...

Life as a teacher

Their sixth form girls were attached to the Oxford High School and Mrs Hanks taught them all physics while...

Evacuation in August 1939

In December the Wing Commander's wife could not manage us on her own as her two daughters had been...

Childhood Memories

My other brother was stationed in Rome and met a nice girl and brought her home after the wedding in...

Childhood Memories

I was born in March 1940, near Deal in Kent, where my father was a major in the Roayl Marines. when I...