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Cheltenham College: The Bursar’s Tale

In 1939 Cheltenham College was evacuated to Shrewsbury School which meant the Bursar spent a great deal of...

evacuee camp

Funny, We Didn't Realise the Danger We Were In.

I joined the Birmingham Bus Company and conductress on the bus. At night there were no lights, the busses...

Portobello in War Time

When my eldest sister married the neighbours pooled their food coupons to provide the wedding cake and food...

Birthday Surprise 1942

My father worked on ship repairs during the war and became good friends with a sailor named 'Percy...

In A Stream In The Park

Father was on a motor torpedo boat, he became best friends with a Mr Cox who suggested that my mother and I...

Escape from Bethnal Green

I was three when the war broke out and I lived in Bethnal Green with my parents and younger sister. I...

EVACUATION

ON ONE OF MY REGULAR VISITS TO LONDON, I CALLED IN AT PADDINGTON STATION... SO WITH MY PACKET OF PASTE AND...

A day in the life of a child during WWII by Sarah Jones Year 9

Fred and the other children thought it was really hard being away from family anf friends, and maybe they...

The Woes and Wows of Childhood Memories

When France fell we packed up again to be moved on to Talybont-on-Usk in Wales, to be picked out again by...

Lupins Overhead

My father put soil on top of it and planted lupins, he said if Hitler flew over he would think it was...

Childhood memories

I was a pupil at the Crome School, Thorpe Hamlet which overlooked the city of Norwich. I happened to look...

A Happy War

I was five years old when war broke out and living twenty miles north of London — my father was...

Remembering The Bombs In Hanwell, London

It obviously was though, because on one occasion when the bombing was especially heavy we had a bomb...

My garden firework display

My father worked at the Southampton Echo during the war because he was invalided from World War One, the...

Childhood Memories of World War 2.

I saw my first flying boat in Portsmouth, a Short Sunderland which impressed me greatly. The end of the war...

Saved From Nutley Cherry Tree By Auxillary Fire Service

Nutley village, being on the southern part of the Ashdown Forest was alive with army units during the...

St. George's Dormitory - "D" Day.

I was in St. George's Dormitory and we were woken up by the sound of hundreds of aircraft going...

Pre world war two

The few that were left behind were treated to an hour's visit to school each weekday morning to collect...

Terry Cartlidge's Wartime Childhood

I was 9 years old at the beginning of the war and remember that the large munitions factory at Radway...

Life in the Farm

My chief work was to help out in the farm especially in the summer — running errands, carrying food...

TELEGRAM JUNE and TRAVELLING PICTURE SHOWS

A telegram for village houses and 1/- for outlying farms and cottages. The V.E. and V.J. Day Celebrations...

My Grandmother and our GP

My grandmother's GP was a doctor John J Bell well before the First World War... Dr. Morrissey was...

A Cage In The Kitchen

I can remember the bomb site at the Bedford Theatre and the Grafton hotel being hit but I don't think...

Village Esprit de Corps

In our village pub, the Miners Arms, we heard the tale of the Polish airman who bailed out over our...

Cathy's Story by Cathy Jones (nee Haseler)

Cathy's Story by Mrs Cathy Jones. My father's sister, Joyce, spent her war down in Kent on a Herb...