I lived in Birkfield Cottages on the High Street at London Colney just south of St Albans, with my mother...
We used to eat cattle cake sometimes if we were hungry - it looked and felt llke hard toffee and was quite...
Joan was evacuated with her two sisters, Elizabeth and Patricia... After a while one of Joan's sisters,...
The next group had what we called a Mickey Mouse mask with a red floppy nose that the children played...
Fires broke out in New Bridge Street, a big warehouse that was 4 or 5 stories high, a German plane had...
We lived in Ellington Thorpe, which was a tiny hamlet after my mother had to leave Cambridge when my father...
My grandmother decided that we would be safer out of London, so we moved to Hove. Then my grandmother...
1, 1939, the secondary school my young brother and I attended was evacuated to Bedfordshire class by class,...
I was almost 14 years old and staying at my family's villa at Wesola, just outside Warsaw. When I got...
These shelters were long tunnels with slatted wooden benches on either side, and us youngsters at the given...
My mum and I were visiting friends in Headley....
It was in early Autumn l944 when the V2 rockets began and my mother said if you are frightened, I was 8...
The one incident I do recall was when the Grove we lived in Broadyates Grove was bombed with an incedery...
I can remember quite a few of the girls there, especially Kath Malpass and Sybil Hort, with whom I walked...
During our stay at the farm, we used to wander the fields, picking up ‘window’ which I later...
When the siren had to be blown for a air-raid the police got a phone call and they had to go the...
These men got really nasty, the village bobby arrived bicycling very slowly, by this time my mother had got...
Tom was so hungry and more than a little scared that he did eat the tripe as best he could... My ordeal...
We were the five oldest, and then the two youngest which was my brother and my sister, they were evacuated...
The silver foil was dropped to confuse the German radar aboard the Bombers into thinking that they were...
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Baffa walls were erected in front of our tenement buildings in which we lived, to protect us from German...
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