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My uncle and aunt were evacuated to live with us during the war and at one point my uncle mentioned he saw...

Barrage Balloon Noise and Garden Delights

When I saw the air-raid shelter in the 大象传媒's war garden at Hampton Court, I remembered we had one in...

Trip to Pictures saved my life

One day when I came home, I was six at the time, my Aunt said she was going to take my cousin...

I wasn't evacuated

I can remember getting up in the middle of the night when the bomb siren went off and moving to the...

Alf's Wartime Milk Round

His milk round took him round the Meadow Lawn area of Tonbridge....

Longstone Local History Group - Heather Reeves' War Memories

Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...

Childhood Memories of World War II

One landed about 200 yards away on Sheen Common... The next day I went across Sheen Common like all little...

Life as a young boy

He would even ignore the sirens when he was delivering the coal... People would shout to him 鈥楨ddie,...

An Only Child in Newcastle

My father was in the army and was at Dunkirk and North Africa where he was taken prisoner of war....

My Story

My father had joined the Merchant Service in 1916when he was 15 years old and continued in the Merchant...

Fishing for Tiddlers and Dodging the Bullets! by Donald Greaves.

Fishing for Tiddlers and Dodging the Bullets! by Donald Greaves. I was one of three schoolboys fishing for...

Working in My Fathers Shop

My father bred pigs, which were for use by the Ministry of Food. We had some boys from the Canadian Army...

My Experience With A Watering Can

and Mum said 鈥渢o the Co-op鈥� and as she said this, she realised the Co-op had disappeared. So...

My Story

My father had joined the Merchant Service in 1916when he was 15 years old and continued in the Merchant...

Joan Coleman's Hertfordshire war

I lived in Hertfordshire, a quiet county town, we only realised there was a war on because of the rationing...

pows

WHAT HAS BROUGHT ALL THIS BACK TO ME IS THAT I WAS ATTENDING A 65TH BIRTHDAY PARTY OF A FRIEND RECENTLY AND...

memories in lincoln

Despite all our parents鈥� worries, the sad news we were always hearing like the death of a...

1940 - Evacuees from Acton, London sent to Totnes, Devon until the end of the War.

1940 - Evacuees from Acton, London sent to Totnes, Devon until the end of the War. This little girl was...

Air raids on Guernsey

The chap from across the road from us used to come and fetch his water from this well in a tin bucket,...

An Observer's Soliloquy

I can tell a Jerry Heinkel from a Junkers 88; His back is curvy on the top, a Junkers goes back straight....

A Lift In Queen Mary's Rolls Royce

We had visits from the Duchess of Gloucester and Queen Mary who would occasionally give lifts in her Rolls...

If you can't stand the heat

Ronald instantly rose to the challenge, running to the towns anti-aircraft gun, he mounted it and started...

Toothless - An Air Raid Precaution!

The Easter raid was bad, it was Good Friday when Bristol was heavily blitzed and we were taken into the...

ww2

To get vivid descriptions from your interviewee, use the five senses in your questions: 'What did...

Wartime Heanor

When war broke out I was 11 years old living with my mother and father, 3 sisters and 1 brother in Heanor...

I Spy

Back in Newcastle, aged 14, I took the exams for the Northern Commercial College off Claremont Road. Later,...