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Billeting and Re-housing

We evacuated first near to Southend but quickly were moved to Coleford in the Forest of Dean. From there I...

German Parachutist in Convent School Grotto

A nun appeared in the doorway and said "Children, it's quite all right, it's only the seniors...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Local Defences

Sand and blocks produced from the Goss Moor sand works were used on the many Second World War projects, two...

Hard Times and Good Times During the War

My dad was a miner in Stanley; he also did voluntary work for the ARP. Beamish Hall was the family home of...

Mino and the Radio

Local news spreads rapidly and she heard of people who had been caught with radios and been arrested and...

Memories of Wartime Coulsdon

I was living in Coulsdon, in between the Caterham Guards Barracks and the Kenley Aerodrome. My sister and I...

Fratenising with the enemy

As the war was drawing to a closethere were some german prisoners camped on Chingford plains that were...

VE Day

My contribution to the victory celebrations at the end of the war was decorating my bicycle with our...

'Teacher Miss Crump'

After returning to London I still kept in contact with Milly and she came to all our family weddings and my...

EVACUATION FROM BURMA

The reason why we were priveledged to fly out of Burma, was because my father had to serve as an essential...

Life on the Move

I was only three years old when the war started and lived with my family at Cherry Garden Lane in...

My Missing Brother

I was walking across Victoria Park in Leicester with my parents and brother... My brother was in the R.A.F....

MY WAR MEMORIES

My enrolment officer was a tall sturdy man who went by the name of Richard Collins. By Steven Gordon, Y9...

Staying fashionable on the coupons

At the end of the war I was having an English lesson — I'd left school at 14 — but I was...

Totnes at War

I lived on a council estate in Totnes, and at the bottom of the garden was the Plymouth to London railway...

King George VI Visits

Suddenly a German aircraft flew very low over a train standing at the station, there was a large explosion...

Eileen Lias' Story (nee Wharton)

I was at Burnley High School and we had three air raid shelters at school on each for the A,B,and C forms,...

The Soldier's Return

War was declared next day and that evening who should walk through the door but Chester, proudly showing...

My Evacuation

They had 3 children of their own - his son in Bath was a doctor, his daughter Pamela was in the WRENS...

How to Earn a Sixpence

My sister, who was six years older than me promised me sixpence if I didn't cry at the station and then...

Getting into Trouble

As a boy during the war I was always in trouble Each day before infant school two friends and I visited the...

My Evacuation as an Evacuee - David Tigwell

When we arrived at Penzance in Cornwall, I thought how nice it was to be beside the seaside, some evacuees...

Wartime life in Oxford

I was 11 when war broke out and lived in a 4 storey Victorian semi-detached house off the Banbury Road in...

Simple Memories

One night a bomb hit the school and destroyed it. there used to be lots of people going to the cemetary....

Maud Talbot'memorys'

Maud Talbot was born outside of Newcastle but moved to Darlington... Maud said that if she wasn't a...

Growing up in West Reading in wartime

Two Americans Captain Cappell and Jerry Hanse were billeted with my grandmother... We had an Anderson...