Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Mr. & Mrs. Williams soon became Uncle Ken and Auntie Mair. They had a baby girl, who was aged one, and...
We played outside the vicarage while she went in to talk with Mrs Lumley who told her she would like to...
The Germans had been the occupying force in the Netherlands for four years, but since June 1944 we knew...
At home word got round that a twin enngined Messerschmitt 110 had belly flopped in a playing field near us...
But far worse were the compulsory Olde English dancing classes for boys. According to rumour, she took her...
Other houses had shelters in the gardens, called Anderson shelters, but my Dad said his garden was far too...
It said 'Surname' followed by a written 'Atkins', then First Name followed by...
His long career in the Air Force included flying in both wars and being posted abroad so we had no settled...
When the time came, when I was sixteen, I joined the Royal Navy as a boy, training for boys in the Royal...
Mum and I were travelling home on the bus from grandmother's house in Oldland Common. An air raid alert...
When the bombing was severe in London, my mother's sister, Ivy, who lived there, brought my cousins...
Lancaster Bomber Crash on Thurnby Lodge, Leicester. Our legs came back to life, and with childish visions...
However it started to get dangerous in Liverpool - enemy air attacks were frequent and as we lived near a...
I pleaded with my parents to be allowed back home, and as there had been more air raid warnings in...
My primary school in Bootle, near Liverpool, evacuated their children to Southport on 1 September 1939......
The first months of the War were relatively quiet, with just a few German planes making sorties over...
I often went with my friend who lived over the road, to visit her Aunt in Fisher Street, and one day when...
I lived in Eden Crescent, Leeds, West Yorkshire, near Headingley Cricket Ground with my parents Colin and...
It was at this time, I believe, that many Polish officers were executed in a camp called Katyn. General...
Sandbags started to be neatly piled around strategic buildings, such as the Town Hall, which in those days...
The radio was all-important especially ‘Children's Hour’ and ‘Toy-town’ and...
I lived in London at Canning Town, London E.16 and Plaistow E.13 during WW2, going to Beckton Road Junior...
Rudolf Hess in Abergavenny The arrival of the deputy Reich fuhrer in Abergavenny was made known to us by...
We heard the shouting from the U-boat and the machine gun firing and the Chief Mate who was in charge of...
The Japanese army, now not only controlled their own little sector, but the whole of Shanghai except for...
Many a dawn we emerged from the cellar after the raids to see our golden cornfields ablaze with incendiary...
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