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Nightly Visits to the shelter - Childhood memories of Mrs Madeline Pressly

Beacuse of the interrupted sleep, my aunt always let me sleep on in the mornings, so that I was always,...

Felixstowe Road story

To get just a tin of jam, I would walk and push the kids in the pram from Felixstowe Road to town....

Silly boy

I was sitting in my Gran's kitchen, sometime in 1943, peeling an apple with one of the old flexible...

Schooldays in London from 1943

The London's school gym was bombed, and later, when I was older and cycled to school, I left my bike in...

Surprised by a mine

One of the nastiest experiences I had was when I had been away from the unit for a couple of days with...

Plane crash in Ruxley Lane, Ewell

1 February 1945 at 14 Ruxley Lane — the house where an unpiloted plane crashed and demolished and...

I can't find my shoes

When I was about 4 or 5 I remember the Doodlebugs which used to come over our village in Biggen Hill in...

Mustard Wedding

Dad was in a reserved occupation during the war as he worked for the railway at Kings Cross Station... One...

My school in Birmingham hit by a landmine just after my evacuation to Wales

The first time I was evacuated was with my brother and sister to Raglan near Monmouth... When we came back,...

My Poor Thumb

I was born in 1934 and when war broke out I was living in Paignton, Devon with my mother, father, my sister...

A Wing and Some Prayers

When we got to Repository Road in Woolwich, home to the Royal Artillery Depot, we were stopped by a...

A Child’s War from Hull to North Yorkshire and Back

My sister and my brother went too, we were split up at Grosmont, but I think the woman who fostered us...

The Hesketh Park Plane Crash

One day I was playing in Hesketh Park when a dogfight took place above us which littered the sky with...

Jennifer Tilbee - Evacuated to Oxford

After that I was evacuated by train to Oxford to escape the bombs that the Germans had been dropping on and...

Wearing clogs to school and the Doodlebugs

"Mickey Mouse" Gas Masks.

They moved to Preston and when heavily pregnant with me, one of the jobs she was assigned to as a civilian,...

Wartime Memories

Blazey, Cornwall, on behalf of Mrs L. Pearce and has been added to the site with her permission. After that...

A Frightning Childhood

I remember the horror of everyone in the street at the sight of the telegram boy, the sudden stillness, the...

Twins in Birmingham

Well,n either of them was in munitions... wasn't in the war.... mother... was working in a grocers...

JEANNE FEENEY - SOME WAR TIME MEMORIES

I was born in Nottingham on the 3rd April 1936, my earliest memory of the war was living with my Aunt in...

Under the Stairs

No silly cupboard under Grandma's stairs Prevented us that night from snuggling down On the mattress...

NO MOD CONS.

On the 21st July 1940 I was evacuated from Hastings with my 6 year old brother to Aston in Hertfordshire. I...

Sugar Sandwiches in Langport

One memory I have of those days was of being put to bed at 6.30 after a glass of hot milk and...

The Day War Broke Out

Dad and I, dressed in our 'Sunday best', turned right out of our masionette in Regent Road,...

War Poetry

I stood on the sward on my small bare feet and that playful Earth would tickle my toes with the finest...

WW2 - Evacuation

We returned to Woodford when the war ended, although I was late in returning because I was seriously ill in...