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From Dover to Wales - An Evacuee's Memories

I remember one Christmas when Auntie and Uncle had tried everywhere to buy a chicken for Christmas Day...

Helen’s Story

Helen was born, eleven years before the outbreak of war, in an isolated village near Hull where her father...

A Cockney Evacuee

We lived in Edmonton N/London Mum Dad Me two brothers & two Sisters my other two brothers were in the...

The Handy Andy

Although we lived within a mile or two, of important military targets - the Caterham Guards Barracks and...

Wailing sirens over Welling

One night a bomber jettisoned its load of incendiary bombs over the immediate area — and next...

The Urchin at War

The journey was very long, stopping for other children The train gathered many on its way The urchin stood...

Evacuated to Newark

I had been at grammar school at home and now had to go to Newark grammar school we were not welcomed -...

A London Evacuee in Somerset

Three months later mum, dad and my younger sister and brother came to visit. Bombs started dropping nearby...

Bombings in Cannock,Daventry and Coventry

The Bomb Squad came and defused it but the authorities told us we had to move so Mum & I went to...

Marie Wells: My Life during the War

I went on duty every Sunday voluntary at Manchester Royal Infirmary - we also took our collection boxes...

Colin Thompson-Things I remember

Fortunately, we went for a few days holiday to the North Devon coast.Whilst we were there the farmhouse was...

Symondsbury, Eton and the Navy

I can remember September 3rd 1939 at eleven o'clock, there was matins in Symondsbury Church, and I went...

Buzz Bombs in Crouch End

In we would go, dog first, me second, Roger, Shirley, Mum and finally Aunt Peg, the brick of the family and...

Memories Buried In Their Minds, For Ever and Ever.

Liverpool: Meols: Farndon- North Wales: Tripoli- Libya and Marsa Matruh- Egypt. Liverpool: Meols: Farndon-...

The Lancaster Family: Evacuation to Nottingham, Loss of a Father, Work as a Clippie

The Lancaster Family: Evacuation to Nottingham, Loss of a Father, Work as a Clippie. When the blitz started...

Evacuation and escape from Northampton!

She saw I was upset and after a meal and a nice cup of tea she took me to the Police Station...

Bad and Good! Childhood Memories of Wartime Croydon

In those days we kids who lived in Croydon did not consider ourselves to be Londoners, since Trafalgar...

My Memories of Evacuation: From Liverpool to North Wales

Brynffinon was about 1½ miles from the village of Sarn and every Wednesday, when Mr. and Mrs. Roberts...

Memories of Evacuee Life

By this time we had started our schoolwork at the old village school situated at the top of the High...

Memories of when the bombs passed over.

My home town is Buxton in Derbyshire were I spent my formative years living with my Mum, Dad and sister...

Growing up in wartime Birminham

The ringers had heard the news from the vicarage; so with Ringing Captain, Billy Cartwright, Dad had...

Joyce’s journey — From London to Wolverhampton

We children didn't quite know what it meant but Mum always said “No!...

Those Evacuees

The policeman helped Mum out of the back of the lorry then lifted me out. So without further ado Mum...

Six Years in the Country

On 1st September 1939 I was evacuated from Albert Road School, Aston to Sandhurst near Gloucester, not...

Don't You Know There's A War On, Young Man?

At that time the village Local Defence Volunteers had a dug-out under construction in the school grounds,...

The East End of London

We never went to the shelter every night sometimes the bombing eased off and we would all have partys and...