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Quaker Relief Service - Evacuation

The children came from London, Coventry, Bristol and Exeter. Some of the children have kept in touch over...

Memories of the Aftermath of the War

As the war and rationing were all in place when I was born,I don't remember much about them,but a very...

Air-raid Practice in Chicago

A lasting impression was made by his account of an 鈥淎ir-Raid鈥� Practice run in Chicago. My...

Wartime Memories

Worked at Luke Turners in Deacon St Infirmary making garters and suspenders. Germany during the war, POW in...

School days.

There was a shortage of books and paper... One strange aspect of experience was that we had very close...

Misplaced account

I remember, in the late evening when the London blitz had started, kneeling on my bed with my brother, aged...

War Life for an 8 year old in 1939, East Hull

During the air raids, Barbara's mum would've packed a "Buzzer Bag". It would be full of...

Sleeping in a Buick in Epping Forest

We went to my aunty's house because there was a big cellar under the house so it was safe to be there...

Yorkshire life

In Ripon where I went to school there were two army camps, the Royal Engineers and the Royal Signals, which...

Wartime School

War impacted on all areas of life, I remember how it changed childhood for those of us at Salisbury Grammar...

A Guernsey two-year-old remembers D-Day

Suddenly, there was a roaring noise from outside the house and Mum and Dad rushed to the window to open...

My VE Day Birthday Fireworks

During the war I lived in a little village in Mid Sussex called Fletching, I attended the local village...

A Sad Story

There was a German bomber, a Dornier, closely followed by a Spitfire... A German land mine had dropped on...

The Cliff

In 1942, a company of black soldiers, I think I should have said African American soldiers, were quartered...

British Fortitude

A wartime experience

We were taken to a London Railway Station by my dad who worked in Windsor making glasses for soldiers as he...

Memories

I was living in a villge called Danbury and one night we were woken by a hugh explosion and it was only...

A Country Girl鈥檚 Experience

The evacuees were outcasts at school. Lots of the evacuees didn't stay....

Memories

I was living in a villge called Danbury and one night we were woken by a hugh explosion and it was only...

A few memories of a 5 year old

My father throwing me to the pavement and covering me with his body when a doodle bug fell silent and...

Pam Speedy's encounter with a German bomber

Pamela Speedy's encounter with a German Bomber. Pamela Speedy was 11 years old when war broke out in...

A Big Interuption at Church

The day war broke out it was a lovely sunny, Sunday morning and I was singing in Bedworth Parish Church...

A Child's Memories of German POWs in rural South Dorset

I was born just at the start of the war in September 1939 and we lived at Puddletown in Dorset....

Home Life as a Little Girl

When mum paid, the lady would put the bill and money into a little box and press a button it would then...

May 1940

On the train from London to the Midlands, about a dozen or so soldiers walked through the carriages and...

At the 'Pictures'

So, my mother decided that in future we would remain in the hall and see the film through... At this, my...