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Memories of Audrey Staniforth

Soon after these young men went to Kingsbridge, the younger children evacuated from London arrived, and...

My War!

When we arrived at North Molton, Devon it was like heaven, all peaceful and calm, and we were taken into a...

Time in Glasgow

There were 2 blitzes in Glasgow, no shelters were in Glasgow and it was so cold, lucky there were no bombs...

Beating the bloomin' doodlebugs

A lot of our work was in the fields and I can remember vividly the chug-chug of the doodlebugs high above...

Memories of VE Day

I was living in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales when I heard that the war in Europe was over. I was...

Milking the Cows

Here is some of the food that was rationed: Butter, margarine, cheese, sugar, dried fruit, chocolate, hard...

Evacuation to Penzance

Auntie Doris’ took us home to ‘Uncle Ron’... Victor then came to Auntie Doris because he...

Childhood Memories of the War - Catshill & Oldbury

My parents had moved out of Ladywood with my two sisters because of the bombing but my Nan, Amy Turner,...

Kilquhanity School

Moira were allowed to start up and run his own boarding school at Kilquhanity House near Douglas...

Children in the WW2

It is now 1943/4 and the child is a pupil of Duncombe Road Infants School, and it was here that her...

Childhood Memories

I started at 9yrs of age in Rutherford Church Halls then went on to Trinity and finished up at Parish... A...

My teenage years

One night a bomb dropped on the house next door to us, meanwhile my Dad went in the air raid shelter to...

The fruitless war

Another example of this was my father's garden and poultry, such as our pig which we had to kill for...

WAR TIME DAYS PART 3

The Coventry Evening Telegraph and The Evening News referred to Harry's visit to London in February...

First Time

When a siren sounded, personnel had to descend into a bunker under the parade ground... When she left...

Chickens and War

On September 3rd 1939 I was evacuated to Caernarfonshire, Wales, along with Marjorie, my older brother...

OUR LITTLE BOMB

As she did so there was a tremendous whizz bang and an incendiary bomb shot through the angle of the roof...

Guernsey evacuees arrive in Weymouth. ´óÏó´«Ã½ broadcast 25th/26th April 1944.

M……..: First, after the evacuation of Dunkirk we were sent to one port — then another - -...

BRIAN THOMPSON - WE KNEW THE INVASION WAS IMMINENT

As a young lad growing up during the war in the Cheshire town of Congleton my main recollections, apart...

Memories are made of this

In 1940 I'd only just started at the local infant school in the suburbs of London and was having to...

Valley Road Memories

In 1938 at the age of 5, I remember walking through Sudbourne Park, near Orford in Suffolk and seeing lots...

Operation Manna - a note of thanks

And then he discoverd that we were Dutch, and before we knew it he regaled us with stories about that last...

'Bearly' survived!

My parents, older sister and baby brother stayed at home in Broughton Road, W Ealing... My sister and her...

WAR TIME DAYS PART 3

The Coventry Evening Telegraph and The Evening News referred to Harry's visit to London in February...

School Days Remembered.

Came that day in September 1939 and our world turned upside down, barrage balloons and airmen on the front...

Evacuation experience

When we arrived at the train station at North Allerton all the children were taken to the Town Hall where...