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Pansy and the Lion

As I lived out at Defford my first job was in Worcester at W & F Webb — which was a carpet...

WAS HE REALLY CRYING?

So a friend of mine, Douglas Brandsbury and I were all gathered at our school, Warren Farm in Woodingdean...

Fired on in rural Hampshire

One afternoon my cousin and I were walking down this tiny country lane, and in Hampshire there was lots of...

Part One - The ‘Start’ (in more ways than one!) by Jorama

It was August, and Mum and I went to Camborne in Cornwall, staying with Auntie Jamie — Mother's...

Evacuation to Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury School agreed that the College could share its premises temporarily and in the autumn some 350...

Memories of an Evacuee

There were too many evacuees to mix in with St Matthew's so we had no school to go to at first, then...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Leicester

My parents owned a Commercial Hotel in Leicester called the Belgravia... The night of the Leicester blitz I...

The Bombing of John Cave's Factory

Those of us who were able followed the coffins to the cemetery for the funerals of our four workmates,...

War Being Declared

When Mum calmed down alittle she picked up my sister out of the pram and sitting on an easy chair held us...

Our Six Evacuees

My father had been appointed the area billeting officer, a task totally unsuited to his background and...

Cleeve School

As early as 1st september, 1939, the effects of the second world war were being felt at the school, for on...

Digging For Victory In Southend On Sea

I stayed for some years in Yorkshire as an evacuee and then in Mansfield, and returned to our house in...

Sore throats and evacuation

I was born in Hertfordshire in Welwyn Garden City, actually in Brocket Hall which is a stately home near...

Country life at Menith Wood (The Gossy)

We saw droves of planes coming over, and we all went up onto ‘The Hill’ at Menith Wood, from...

War Life

The war life of Mr Cyril Selby and Mrs Betty Selby from Northfleet. Betty Selby My maiden name is Betty...

Memories of the war in Grimsby. Evacuation and the bombing of South Parade school.

My mother could not stand the conditions and soon, she and my brother returned to Grimsby. I was left with...

Betty Hughes' War

There was a lot of bombing at Christmas 1940 - we worked on the top flooor and I remember peeping through...

BOMBERS MOON

We eventually arrived at Rotherham and as no air raid warning had been given there, when the train left it...

The Laindon V2

My father's family, the Joys, lived down an unmade road, running parallel to the Southend Arterial...

How I spent my war time years

I remember after the Easter blitz my brother who was 3 years older than me and myself moved to live with my...

A Horrific Experience

I went out into the back lane which separated Mutley Road from the house on the lower side of Thorn Park....

Evacuee memories of Dorset

En route - the train stopped at a station and we got up to get off but were stopped by ladies on...

Wartime Memories of an Eight Year Old

When I was of an age to attend the Grammar School, when the sirens sounded we went to the shelters and...

A Wartime Coincidence

E.H. Badrick It was the 14th October 1939; I was just 6 years old and sitting in a tin bath in front...

Poachers and Bikes

As well as his sideline of selling rabbits from his garage, Dad would repair and build bikes to sell on to...

Crossing Canada by Train

Whenever travelling by train I always remember my first proper train journey — all across Canada from...