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Liverpool Schoolboy: Terror of Raids, Blackout, Rationing, Horse-drawn Vehicles

Bombs also fell on the coal sidings at Knotty Ash....

Memories of the Battle of Britain

From early on in the hostilities we felt the impact of the war as the position of the village made us...

Voyage Home from Singapore - 1939. Part 1 "The convoy"

Singapore to Southampton via Port Said & Gibraltar. Dilwara had been patched up after the collision and...

An Eight Year Olds Memory of being Evacuated

Another memory of mine is the time of the Dieppe raid and army trucks pulled up in front of the houses and...

What Did You Do

Frequently, we were asked to be make believe casualties suffering from assumed bomb damage in an Air Raid,...

The Birch Family at War (Part 2) Evacuated to Devon and Dorset

I remember looking up at night and seeing the searchlights pick up a plane, it looked like a silver moth,...

Rev Richard W Stevens

The next two years we went to the new Hall belonging to the 10th Finchley Scottish Scout Group. The hall...

Goodbye Father, Hello Stranger

Also the butcher would sell or give away bones with quite a lot of meat on them... Lentil and meat bone...

Care of Bombed-Out Children

To this day, I cannot comprehend how the authorities felt that separating us, without warning on arrival,...

My Name is Lisa

The Steppes were all around us and the battle was raging, the thunder of cannons could be heard every...

Saturday, 7th Sept. 1940

But I was far more worried about the film than the air-raid. By this time air-raids were old hat: a film...

Evacuation to Dorset - September 1939

Although we did indeed go to Dorchester, and eventually shared Dorchester High School we actually lived in...

Philip's War Part 2

Eventually, a WVS woman came over and explained that Mrs Roberts only wanted two children; our hearts sank....

War Time on a Suffolk Farm

Blitz on Belfast

We spent holidays at the cottage and my grandmother used to take her children there after Easter each year...

More Wartime Schooling

There was always some lady who would get me up as I was tall for my age and I knew every dance...

Recollections

As a small boy, I tried to talk to my grandfather about what had happened to him when he was in France...

War Time Childhood: In Downham and Devon

My father, who had served in Ypres, France in the first World War refused to use it and when he was not...

My War at School and at Home

During a raid on Bromley on the 16/17th April 1941, I remember laying awake in my bunk and seeing the house...

Story - John Bevan

But there weren't many German aircraft over Combe Martin. Combe Martin was fairly safe because it is...

Memories of a Newcastle Child

My Mother, Father, Brother Bill and I lived at 185 Stanton Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. I remember on the...

Leaving Home

When we eventually arrived at Harrogate station we were taken thought the town, down Pier Hill to the Crown...

World War 2 Recollections

My Mother, Father, Brother Bill and I lived at 185 Stanton Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. I remember on the...

A Quiet War

One boy achieved hero status by going into the pulpit at church and shouting 'Heil Hitler'. He then...

What is a kid like me doing in a place like this: The Blitz in Hornchurch

I remember things that went bump in the night; the blackout; being evacuated to Glasgow on a train filled...

Interview with an Evacuee

Interview recorded on Saturday January 11th 2002 between Jennifer Parsons and Pauline Lavinia John,...