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HOLE IN THE PARLOUR

My Father was an ARP Warden and I remember him building our very own air-raid shelter in the house, in the...

"Signalling the Enemy !"

We saw the boys during the day and after they'd gone back to camp my friend and I went to bed in...

My Memories of War

My cousin and I waited and waited and we were the last two, left in the playground... Staying with us and...

Being married, during the war years

I lived at home with my mum and dad and sisters, my brothers were away at sea. Some of my younger brothers...

Hereson Road in Wartime

I was in the playground at Hereson Infants and my brother came up to me and told me that my father was...

Home on the Farm

Everything was amazingly different for me — for example, the turkey cock used to chase me around the...

Smelling the Gas!

In 1942, I was 16 years old and had become a member of the Girls' Training Corps in Tunbridge Wells,...

My family's memories

Uncle Maurice was killed at Monte Casino in the army and Geoffrey was a RAF pilot and journalist. My father...

Evacuee - to Blackpool.

Then we went to London and were 'living' in the Anderson shelter in the garden at Clapham.All us...

The Inside Story

If the siren went off, you'd run to an 'Anderson shelter' which was situated practically...

The Germans Occupy Guernsey

Transcribed and edited by John David 25-26/3/2005 from video recording of an interview with John Gaisford...

Dora’s Molotov Basket

One day when one of these wives was staying with me, the Germans dropped a Molotov Basket trying to hit the...

New Digs For Unhappy Evacuee

About this time my mother had left my father at home, to be with us and having found work in a munitions...

Wartime School Days

Our house in Windsor road Worcester Park received a direct hit from a doodle bug in June 1943... We were...

Childhood Memories of the War

One boy came to school crying because his Dad said that if the Germans ever got as far as Dover they would...

Children's Memories of Wistanstow, Shropshire

My mother, brother and I were evacuated to my grandparents, who lived in Grove Cottage. This was in the...

Green Bananas

I was 19, a first class stoker on HMS Colombo, pulling into Gibralter to refuel, returning from a two year...

Messages sent to the Forces

Emma Bell. Mrs. When she was seventeen or eighteen years old, Emma Molyneux, as she then was, started work...

Evacuee at the Mansion

We went to Coton Hall, Whixall, Whitchurch, Salop, with a Lord and Lady Hill... The Lord and Lady had a son...

Wartime Teacher

Oh yes, I was in charge of the children who were to be evacuated. We had to get all the children into...

The day Reading was bombed

I had gone to Oxford with my grandmother when the sirens went off and when we returned Reading had already...

A week with my Grandmother

I was aged 6 - 7 years staying with my grandparents,taking my ration book,having 1 egg,a small piece of...

THERE GOES THE PUDDEN!!!!

The bakery would help the hoppers with the Sunday lunch as they could provide the ovens for baking the...

Drinking Coke

A story went round the school thet Americans drank coke!.. The school boiler was coke fired, and a lorry...

When I Stared into the eyes of a German Pilot

The bomber was shot down over the brooks which were south of Lewes. My mother told me later that that...

Evacuation

I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...