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Water Tanks in Trowbridge

One of these was in St. James Church Yard and was connected to other tanks by a large pipe running along...

Digging for victory

We had coupons to buy butter, tinned bacon and powdered eggs as well as other things like clothes. For...

New Zealand Pen Pals

My younger sister,Nancy, and I joined the brownies at Trinity Congregational church in High Wycombe where...

bombs and gasmasks in lincoln

I said I hadn't one, in the end I had to walk across Newport Cemetery to get one from the ARP Warden...

Wartime memories

We had an Anderson air-raid shelter in the back garden, complete with 5 bunks and straw mattresses. My...

Wales

In 1939, at the age of 8, I was evacuated, with Austin my brother, who was 18 months younger, to Rhuddlan,...

Prisoners of War in transit

My mother, Joan Endersby was the only female driver in the Baldock/Royston area enlisted to transport...

Malnutrition and diseases

One of the things that I remember was the time my brother and I caught impetigo — a very contagious...

EVACUATION

In the interim, my father, a Civil Servant in the Air Ministry, was evacuated with his job to Harrogate...

Wartime memory

I have quite vivid memories of my wartime childhood. For instance, as a repetitive 'flag' seller...

VE DAY - THE FIRST BONFIRE

As we knew the war in Europe was ending, we read in the papers that Churchill was going to announce when we...

Playing Host in South Africa

At that point there were five of us: my sister and brother, and the two evacuee children, Pamela and...

LUCKFLY THE MOAT WAS DRY

It was late 1942 and I was to be taught at the Sir John Cass technical insulate for 6 months before on...

Being an infant evacuee

The next time I was evacuated 'for real'. I was sent to The Lizard in Cornwall to stay with a...

A couple of childhood memories

Our house was only a stones throw from the Bidston Dock — part of Birkenhead Docks. Unfortunately,...

Early war years (1939-1940)

My dad dressed tobacconist's windows, lodging with a colleague in Clacton, while my mum was in service...

A Chair By the Fire

I don't remember a V.E. party at the end of the war, but I remember how cold it always seemed to be,...

Derby, the War and VJ Day

No record of us in Warwick so put back on coach and finished up in Chellaston, about three miles from...

"Ramsbottom and Enoch and Me"

I remember the first four lines of their opening song, “We three in Happidrome, working for the ´óÏó´«Ã½,...

Holidays during the war.

I was evacuated from London in September 1939 aged 10 years and 9mths with several hundred other disabled...

'Happy Times' Child's wartime memories

My dad was a ARP Wardenin Smedley,Collinhurst. My grandma used to run a brick built building in Blakeley,...

Going to School in the War

Unlike some children I was never evacuated, my two elder brothers were, but they were so unhappy that my...

"Put that light out!"

A Cul-De-SAC IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN - Mitcham 1944

A CUL-DE-SAC IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN — MITCHAM 1944....

I've Never Seen Anything Like It

Just as the war ended I went teaching at an all boys school.Some boys in a slip of the tongue called me...

No more Blackpool holidays

I was 9, my Sister's Jean 11 and June 7, when war broke out. My sister, Jean was very reluctant to get...