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Doodle-bugs in Walthamstow; where did the pretty glass bird go?

Sometimes the men in the dairies gave him bacon, butter, eggs, Ovaltine or Rose-hip syrup. My auntie, my...

An Escape at Dunkirk

My Wartime Memory by Mrs. J B Hawkins of Bodmin, Cornwall Imagine my surprise to return home from school at...

A Broken Heart

I was evacuated from city life in Liverpool all the way down the country to the train station of Cornwall,...

Anita's unfinished doll's house - Little Staughton Aerodrome , Nr. St.Neots Beds. and Rushden Northants

Anita's unfinished doll's house - Little Staughton Aerodrome , Nr. My father Ronald W. Sackett...

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The Outbreak of War

Whilst Neville Chamberlain was addressing the nation that Sunday morning- probably designated a National...

Fate Was Kind

They booked an evening meal at the Marples Hotel, followed by a show at the theatre. They left the car at a...

JUST WAITING

Sadie and Susie were just children, so they didn't have to worry about raids, coupons, rations, points,...

From Hull to School in a Scawby Mill Pub

We were put onto trains at Paragon Station in Hull by the schoolteachers and we were sent to Scarborough......

Bombs over Bristol

The incendiary bomb had landed in the lap of my large teddy bear sitting in my doll's pram....

Out of the frying pan!

I was suddenly aware of a loud droning sound,and looking up was astounded to see lots of planes, looking...

Don't Scream!

We children had to make tea and sandwiches for the homeless. Fortunately, we ten children and parents...

It wasn't all bad if you were young

My father had lost an eye in the First World War and was a railwayman at Goring-By-Sea Station for 58...

While Dad Was Away

She also used to read to me which was probably very useful because the large number of evacuees in...

Evacuated to Atworth Wilts at 9 years old

Another occasion was with two of our teachers, Mr Winston and Mrs Walker who were billeted in a farm in...

Peashooters and Perspex

Then when a plane was shot down near us we used to collect the parts, aluminium parts, hydraulic piping,...

Childhood Snippets

I remember travelling to my grandparents in West Wales, travelling overnight by train, being hemmed in by...

The Night They Thought I was the Enemy

Lo and behold, in my money bag she found a cigarette lighter, it was a tiny souvenir made by a friend...

Flo鈥檚 escape from the Blitz

It was 1940 and Christmas, they had closed the Theatres, but Manchester Palace Theatre was still open and...

The Day I Grew Up

They were going up the Mounts from Castle Station walking slowly in the road going to St Crispin's Hall...

Battle of Britain from Underneath

In December 1945, I found myself on a train with my Dad on the way to Blackburn in Lancashire, I was to...

Troops in Seskinore

The only accommodation suitable for troops was at Seskinore, one mile from where I lived and also in...

Homeless

The last time I had been home was in September 1942 to get married to my sweetheart Doris at Strete Village...

War on the Shankill

Mrs Jean Wilson comes from Monks town in Newtownabbey, as a child Jean lived in Riga St. the heart of the...

A wounded Dad's reunion with his daughters

The lady told me that she and her twin sister had been evacuated to Launceston and had stayed with a Miss...

Saffron Walden on Alert

When I was about 9 years old I was evacuated to Saffron Walden at the time when the doodle bugs were flying...

Polish troops in Bridlingtonicon for Story with photo

As a child I lived on a Council estate in Bridlington and, the alleyway between the houses was blocked up...

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