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Malvern Girls' College

I was a schoolgirl during the war and my mother was told that German planes couldn't bomb Great...

Don鈥檛 touch things you know nothing about

This day five young boys, the eldest being 13 years of age had gone out on the hills and the 13 year...

Working on the Land in Wartime

The day war broke out

During the singing of one hymn the verger walked down the centre isle and approached the vicar and...

The war in the eyes of a five year old

One day I can remember when an aeroplane crashed right near to our house, me and my brother went over to it...

My Grandas war

Our house was in a place near a lot of factories, mills and the shipyard so the Germans tried to drop thier...

A childs story in the war

My home was an East Coast seaside town of Cleethorpes For the defence of an expected German invation,the...

The Life Saving Corner Stone

My Mum and Dad lived at Hilders Bungalow, Redding Street on the Appledore Road out of Tenterden. Dad was in...

It was a bomb

When I got into the village there was a big space where six houses stood, next door to a shopping parade -...

In Care we Trust

I was evacated from Birmingham to Stroud in Gloucestershire in 1941... My father came down to...

In the country near Liverpool

We had school children from Liverpool evacuated to us as we live in the country, we had a boy and a girl....

The Bread still gets delivered!

Whilst delivering bread in Canterbury Road, West Worthing, the air raid siren sounded and I heard a German...

Lewis's Evacuation

We watched the first air battle and Tommy Parker's father was a travelling salesman. He brought home...

Maid's story

At Christmas 1940 Marjorie was working in Whalley in service in a big house... The house had to be branded...

The Air Raids.

My brother and I each had a cot in our shelter and everyday my Mother put hot water bottles in our cots...

Berlin April 1945

During the day by the American airforce, during the night by the RAF and day and night by the Russian...

Hurtle Hill Farm

My father ran Hurtle Hill Farm and as a small boy I can remember Austrians, Italians and Germans coming to...

Childhood evacuation Wartime memory

Mr Attoe has many childhood memories at the time of the war and focused a lot on the evacuation at the...

missed school, shrapnel and american tastes

Sometimes we'd be walking up to school and there'd been a bomb dropped in a particular road and one...

A "spy" and a prison escape

At one time the police in Porthcawl thought my sister was a German spy! So I opened the door, recognised...

Fired at by a German fighter plane

German planes flying up through the valleys to Pontypridd and firing away at people... I saw the Heinkel...

The Smell of Fish and Chips

My husband lived in Gleave Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham. He was evacuated twice, for a short time to Wythall...

Knocking Nails into 'Hitler's Coffin'

As we turned out of the gate to walk along by the canal on our way home he shouted, 'Five nails for...

Memories of the 40's

I was living on the outskirts of Birmingham boards of Worcestershire. From the distance, as a 12 year old...

I remember

Newspapers in the garden, the 'propaganda' An american aircraft crashed near our house in...

Farm Bombings

One raid on Ashford was carried out by 12 Fokker Wolf's of the Luftwaffe, each carrying two bombs. We...