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Shot at in Sutton

I was thirteen years old and was studying shorthand and typing at Greggs Shorthand College in Croydon, in...

The Three Angels of Wharfdale

Several of the P.O.W.s were allowed to attend the games club and at Christmas my grandfather asked my...

Keith Moody (aged 11 on VE Day)

One particular memory of VE Day I recollect very well is that of a group of grubby urchins living in or...

Clothes

Being the youngest of three boys, I was always last in line for that which my elder brothers outgrew... If...

Pop and chocolate

As a 7 year old boy in 1939, during the war I greatly missed Shredded Wheat, chocolate and fizzy drinks.I...

Dad’s New Painting Trick

She kept pumping but nothing came out – dad kept saying ‘harder harder’... Dad dashed...

How Times Change

When I was 7 years old I was evacuated to a place called Welsh Hampton in Shropshire we were all in a...

Digging Up Bombs

There were dead cattle everywhere and we found where the unexploded bombs were. This was no obstacle for...

Shoe shopping with gas masks

Rose, about 20, was a Ward Orderly in All Saints Convalescent Hospital, Eastbourne. Being on the coast...

Evacuation to Wales and a disguised plane factory

I was evacuated and went to stay with a lady in Rogerston, Newport, Gwent, South Wales... But I got...

Forgotten Family

Luckily for everyone the bombs didn't explode. After they had discovered that the bombs had been...

Mr Raymond Weeks who was evacuated.

Raymond originally lived at 57 Barnfield Road in Plumstead in South East London, he lived with his parents...

Memories of the War in a Country Town

The first was lying in bed at night and hearing the German planes overhead on their way to bomb Manchester...

Very Early War Memories

Liverpool of course was heavily bombed during the war, but according to the older people in the area not a...

Battle of Britain like a live video

Then immediately after the Battle of Britain started and it was marvellous for a youngster of ten or so, it...

Cutting Across Kendal Street

It was a very dark Friday night, there was a blackout as usual and I was on my way to work the...

Blown out of bed

The explosion was so big that all the windows in our house smashed and the doors came off and I was...

Four Fighter Fund

I was just 16 years of age when the Borough of Hendon established its 'Four Fighter Fund'. It aimed...

narrow escape

During the Blitz, my mum, Freda Olive Gammon, was sitting, reading a newspaper, during her lunch break, at...

My evacuation

I cannot remember how my brothers came to us from Cornwall, but my brother said my father brought them down...

Childhood

For the first 2 years we had a succession of evacuees, first relatives then a schoolgirl from Kilburn......

A Civilians Story

My eldest sister went into the WAAFS during the war and was stationed at Morecambe working for the G.P.O....

Underground tunnels

We lived next door to my Aunt and instead of having individual shelters we built them through — we...

My Fitzjohn Aunts

My Aunts, Phyllis and Vera nee Fitzjohn were young married women at the outbreak of war. They kept their...

Of course we'll win the war!

My family were fine — my brother slept right through it — although my hair was burnt off! We...

Spoils of War

One day a plane was shot down in a field nearby and we found out that it was an English plane that...