大象传媒

Preparing for war

I lived in London in Highgate... My father had an offer to send my brother and me to America with a work...

War is not a game

Even the bombing seemed exciting and we all used to collect bits of shrapnel. I saw a civil defence man...

Wellington Crash October 1942

Wellington Crash NORTHOLT, October 1942 Record of a WW2 family tragedy From a Street family relative Street...

London Evacuee

With my older sister and brother we filed on to the caoch, clutching my carrier bag of worldly goods,...

Victory street party

Childhood memories

On my tenth birthday, there were no luxuries available but mother had "fixed" half a special cake,...

Hunted by the Luftwaffe

My family had moved from Upper Norwood to Ramsgate in 1939 because my mother had wanted us to live in a...

Wartime in Brackley

I was one of nine children on a farm in Brackley Northants. We were surrounded by aerodromes; Turweston,...

Seeing a mattress hanging out of a window

I was coming up to 11 when the war broke out and I'd just passed the scholarship and I was supposed to...

Good News

Another memorable occasion was when we heard on the Lord HawHaw programme that my uncle, a Major in the...

The story of a shirt

Martha Martel interviewed by Lynne Ashton of the Guernsey Museum. She had two young children, and they were...

Memories of Watford

He saw an incendiary bomb outside our front door and he rushed out and picked up a sandbag to put it out...

A Wartime Childhood

Jean used to cycle to the Halle Orchestra when it was based at Belle Vue after the Free Trade Hall was...

'TIMPERLEY BOY' Extacts covering the War Years

All rights belong to the author and the publisher Churnet Valley Books This is the story about a boy born...

VE Day in Staplehill, Bristol

On VE day we had a great party and the Powels, the Punters, the Bells the Roseveres, the Stranges and the...

MERRICANS

My Grandmother used to tell us stories of the First World War and she mentioned how they used to place the...

dorothy cook

I can remember a German parachutist landing in Saxmundham, he was soon surrounded by members of the public...

School Days

Later on several of the senior girls went potato picking to help the farmers, and at one stage we had a...

Home life as a little girl 2

I attended a small village school at Helpston surrounded by several airfields the nearest being...

Waiting to Volunteer

It was a very strict life and towards the end of the war I was preparing vouchers from units requestiong MT...

Toys and war

This meant that new toys were in short supply and the lead up to Christmas could could be very stressful...

大象传媒 'Home & Forces Programme'

One morning, a doodlebug was shot down by two Spitfires trying to catch it before it could reach London and...

John and Jean Harris. Part two: John's story.

He knocked at the door and told the fella who lived there about the light and the man looked at the door...

Evacuees

I was 9 when the war began, my sister Audrey was 11 and Winnie 7... Audrey was chosen by Mr and Mrs...

Pat Crank's War Memories

I was 9 years old when war started and living in Ilford, Essex on the edge of London. After two years I...

jeffy archer

Many many great games were played on this make-shift football park. Some of the men had discovered that the...