大象传媒

Memories of Woking in the War

My father was chauffeur to Ralph Reed, and I attended Goldsworth School where Surrey History Centre is now...

Polly's Gasmask Battle in Slough

Blood spurted from his nose, he yelled with astonishment and pain-then, as I advanced on him, swinging the...

Dad's delicate cargo from Dunkirk

He served in France, Italy, Sicily and North Africa and I only saw him once in all that time when he came...

First Pupils at Harry Cheshire School

In September 1940 I was one of the first pupils to go to the Harry Cheshire School in Kidderminster a very...

Aberdeen Barrage Balloon Operator

We put the detonators in the balloons which were sent up in the air against the German bombers. Rockets had...

Under Fire At The Age Of Seven

In the event of an air raid we children had to take shelter in the village hall... I was nearly home,...

VE Day street party in Alma Road, Enfield

It would be held in the Alma Street part of Beaconsfield Road near the bomb damaged area... A fancy dress...

鈥渉as god sent a thunderstorm?鈥�

My other brother was invalided out, and my father had been invalided out of the Army in the First World...

Wartime Memories of Hyde Park, South Brent and Buckfastleigh

My best friend in Buckfastleigh was Sylvia Tillyer, now Topper, she was my bridesmaid in 1955 and we are...

Wartime Memories

We soon got used to hearing the sirens and began to pick out the sound of German Bomber engines. Because of...

Childhood & Evacuation

We really didn't want to go, all we wanted was to be with our parents. After many hours we arrived at...

A Hard Landing on Richmond Bridge

Story Title : A Hard Landing on Richmond Bridge. Your name in the story and full names of other people:...

Evacuation Memories

In July 1940 my Father William who was blind and gassed from the first world war, my mother and my sister...

Air raid life near the Gloster Aircraft Company

Oil bombs were dropped on GAC's car park and also on Hucclecote, and other bombs landed in the fields...

My story-Doris Cosgreave nee Ellis.

As a almost 4 year old child I lived at 76 Church Rd Willesden with my widowed mother and my grandmother.We...

Hot pork Pies!

When the sirens went we were in a cupboard under the stairs, but we were safe, not like the WAAF's down...

Crops and Love bloom at Ombersley

During The Second World War we lived at Sarah House, Boreley, near Ombersley. Father also had a German...

Memories of Erdington

Following the start of the war we had no school as most of the children were evacuated from Ryland Road...

BUTTONS

PRIOR TO JOINING THE A.T.S.IN 1941, IN WHICH I SERVED AS A STAFF DRIVER UNTIL DECEMBER 1945, I WORKED IN...

Bomb explosion in Soham.

Well I can well remember the truck load of bombs blown up in Soham station on 4th June 1944... The Train...

Wartime childhood in Manchester

Parents wouldn't allow so evacuated to Sonnerford Hall, Corgleton Cheshire... I had an initiation...

Three Doodlebugs

Once we were in the passage of the house and all the windows came in at the back and the front door...

ALAN CAUDWELL'S STORY

My husband was a Craftsman in the R.E.M.E. He went straight from the U.K. to Sicily - where he got sandfly...

One of my experiences of WWII (1939-1945)

We were pleased to see them, but our mother pointed out that we did not have enough bred for sandwiches for...

A war time childhood

Maureen had two older sisters, Ilene and Peggy, aged ten and twelve. Her sisters had bunk beds in their air...

A Boy's adventures in wartime Thetford

Sitting on the bridge over the railway line at Thetford station I watched tanks being loaded onto the...