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The Headlamps of a Spy

Wartime in the tailoring trade

. I helped make flying suits for the RAF - these were wired to plug in when the lads were flying and...

G.I. bait!

In l944 while living at Poole, I looked like a miniature Shirley Temple, so my older sister and her friends...

While tha can 'ear it - we're all reight

Any Old Iron!!

I was 5 when War broke out, we were living in Aldershot and I was boarding at St Anthony's convent....

No Choice

Off I went to London, actually to Southall, Middlesex to stay with Arthur and Mary Henderson, distant...

Sheep Skin Slippers

Then we moved to Brighton in 1965, my husband died in 1966 I stayed on in Brighton and remarried in 1970, a...

Evacuation from Acton to Watlington and March

My Evacuation Days

There were 116 girls sent to Wallington Hall, home of Sir Charles and Lady Treveleyon... I remember...

Hurricane Over Withyham

Myself and two ladies went into the field next to the hop garden and saw the sky was black with German...

My War Memories

I remember the evacuees that came to Hadleigh, meaning to have some of them but as my mother owned a...

Under the stairs!

I was never evacuated, my mother wouldn't let me go, me and my sister used to sleep in the cupboard...

Kent Village 1941

During the last war in 1941, my father was in the Royal Artillery number 973320; he was stationed down in...

A child's understanding of barrage balloons

When I was a small child — a very small child I was - I saw the barrage balloons over London... Well,...

Yesterdays Child

Pat Watson is the author of a book called Yesterdays Child which is part fiction and part based on her...

Doreen Pearson's Memories of the Home Front in Oxford

Name Doreen Pearson Interview Date 20th April 2005 Subjects covered Childhood, Make do and Mend, V.E. Day...

Memories of a Flight Engineer

Having just completed operational flying with Halifax's 102 Squadron I was posted to RAF Calvely and...

From town to country

I was a ‘war evacuee’ in my early days, A child of the city, knowing naught of country ways;...

children's games, toys and schooldays

I was an avid reader and I remember having to go to Ruddocks to order an Enid Blyton book....

My memories of Timperley, 1939-45

She and my father had met during the First World War, and later we used to spend some time in France. There...

Safer in the Clinic?

I had been off school becuase I had been sick, and when I returned to the class, Mr Foggarty asked me to...

What did you do in the war Nan?

I was first evacuated to Guildford to a business lady who just left me to my own devices, so I was removed...

School walk

The bomb disposal army lads were on site, digging for all their worth. Unfortunately, the ground into which...

A Bright Spot

At the time, my family lived on a new estate off a winding road with ditches on either side called...

Peanut and Raisin Fudge

When they came in that evening she said, "I couldn't help noticing but you have butter, sugar,...

Doddle Bug

The boys were put on a rota to act as "firewatchers" to locate and, I suppose, deal with any...