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LEFT BEHIND

We used to hear the German planes flying overhead and we knew they were German because of the droning noise...

Mr D OLD Story

Hamworthy now called Shapwich Rd that is Step-mum and Dad, brother Tony, sister Betty and myself. Mum and...

The amazing view of the faces, by a child of the 1943 Reading bombers

It clipped the top of the conker tree and this was thought later that it was because they were flying so...

WAR TIME MEMORIES

I was born 17.02.1937 in Oldham Lancs, and moved to Marston Green, Birmingham the same year. We lived quite...

When I was evacuated

I think I was about 3 or 4 when he arranged for us to stay with his aunt and uncle at Playford....

A child in World War 2

Things like butter,sugar meat and bananas disappaered of the market... We got wale meat sausages,these...

Marriage marks the end

I knew that air raids were dangerous so I was evacuated with other kids to a small village named...

'The Yanks are Here'

One of my mum's girl friends started courting one of the soldiers... We were sad for days afterwards.My...

Remembering the Night Nottingham was Bombed

I remember the night Nottingham was bombed....

The Germans requisition Guernsey housing

Within the first year the house at Croute Havilland was commandeered and we moved into the Castel in a...

Defending Upper Langford - my father and the Germans

One night a German plane, returning from a bombing run over Bristol crashed in fields belonging to the...

A childhood memory of American troops.

Sometimes the G.I.s would cut a stick out of the hedge and thread about six do-nuts for us children, not...

Brenda’s Memory 1

Playtime we all went into the playground for our very first taste of freedom from the classroom... Mrs...

My evacuation experiences

We were ‘bombed out’ one night and whilst sleeping in our Anderson shelter in the back garden a...

Memories of Village School Girl

Bombs dropped in the village, some on houses, also killing cows in the field....

BRIXHAM AND THE ATS.

Brixham and the ATS. My name is Dot Steer, the only daughter of Walter and Eva Pook of Babacombe, Torquay,...

'Let him go and let him tarry'

How she got on was the ‘Aida Foster School of Dance’ was closely linked to the film industry,...

How I Escaped the Rationing

I was 8 when the war started and we lived in Exmouth in Devon on the seafront and when they started...

Stephen - the little English evacuee

During WW2, a young boy called Stephen Senator was sent from London to Clogher, Co Tyrone as an evacuee. He...

War and coke

As we got older, my brother and I had to push a home-made cart to the coke yard which was about a...

From Barking to Cambridgeshire During The War

We also lived near a park and some spare bits of land. I remember enjoying listening to Winston...

Evacuated to North Devon

Rationing and Queing

I then went on army anti aircraft Cockshutt Hill Sheldon... We checked the nearby property Lyons tea room...

A Day Out in 1944

I remember my mother pushing the pram, my father held our dog , a black labrador called Jess on a lead......

Eight weeks' evacuation

My own school, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Edgbaston, was to go to Cheltenham to share the...

A child's war

The memory of rationing and wartime cooking is very clear, with dried potato and eggs, and coupons for...