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"Sugar in your tea or home made cake!"

We three girls loved her Farmhouse cake, so we opted for ‘cake’, but dad said he could not give...

First Casualty of the Sheffield Blitz

As for the rationing, there was no sugar, no sweets or bananas and I remember having a cake made with...

Mother’s Sideboard.

I was very young when the war started and living in the parish of Aymestry in North Hereford. Her sideboard...

Friendly fire almost killed me.

The closest I came to death was due to friendly fire, which is funny because it wasn't the Americans...

What my granma did

My granma wasnt particlurly young when the second world war started - she was around six when the first one...

Living with the Germans - Russian and Polish Slave workers

One nasty memory I have as a child was walking home, back from the Grande Maison classroom past a Prisoner...

Thank you!

This is not a story but a thank you to a lovely family, who took my brother, Antony Charles Douglas Forster...

From Bananas to Boots

What this lady had told my mom was that there was a man selling bananas. When we got home my mom mashed...

A WARTIME CHRISTMAS MEMORY

What we looked forward to most was waking up on Christmas morning to our stockings hanging from the...

unexpected bombs

It was during what became known as the "Phony War" period that my wife and I were relaxing after a...

School in Folkestone during the War

My brother and two sisters and I were evacuated to Wales, but when our father died we returned to...

A wartime memory of a ten year old

I cycled to the town of Neath, about a mile from home It was a sunny Saturday morn, but I felt so...

War Memories: Returning Home From Africa

One evening when we out visiting friends, we were told that Wallasey was alight! Whilst my war effort was...

Flying Bomb V1 (Doodlebug) disrupts delivery

I was on my way from the outskirts of Biggin Hill to Tatsfield, which is about 3 miles out of Biggin Hill,...

Dukinfield

My father took me into a pub called the Lamb Inn in Dukenfield for shelter and probably a pint for him......

My Memories

Windows were blown in, ceilings falling down and lots of china being broken... Although it was a terrible...

A CHILD LIVING THROUGH WORLD WAR 2

Susan Dale remembers her family and other families’ starting to set up bomb shelters which she...

Wartime Memories Pt2

Her daughter did not play with us and I remember thinking her spoilt and envying her the toys she had. I...

Bexleyheath, Kent

He drove for the Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society picking up milk from the depot in Mitcham and delivering...

Dangerous curiosity... and luxury shelters

We found out one day that a German plane had been shot down at West Drayton. Me and my brothers and sisters...

School Trilogy 1: Unfit

So, they closed us down and we went instead To smaller groups in the dining rooms Of some of the posher...

UPROOTING

It was a big disruption for me and my brother Tom, as he was at Dunmurry Public elementary school, and I...

Evacuation from Middlesbrough

The 'Evacuees' were recieved at such places as Bridlington, Malton, Helmsley, Pickering and...

The Anderson Shelter

If I had a video of my Family, Father Frank, Mother Mercedes ,Brother Ken and myself following the...

Just like the prisoners of war!

I was still at school when news of victory came in the May of 1945, and my family and i travelled to...

My life after 3.

My big sister took me but we met a teacher called Miss Williams. I had two brothers and two sisters who...