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A Child's Eye View Of The War — Catapults, Shepherds PIie, And A Lifetime's Respect For Raisins!

A Child's Eye View Of The War — Catapults, Shepherds PIie, And A Lifetime's Respect For...

Edinburgh to Inverness: Memories of an Evacuee

Then a nice gentleman came over and again offereed to take my sister and I, and again I said "no"...

Our Life-Saving Cat

My father was on duty at Fire Brigade HQ at Albert Embankment, where he was a fireman. My 16-year old...

Childhood in Cilfynydd

My uncle Wyndham was in the Home Guards,they all marched with sticks on their shoulders instead of guns,...

Organized into Crocodiles

On arrival in Ashby we were led to the hall of the local Girls Grammar school- where we were met by members...

Ken Billing's War

We had two that I remember; dad reckoned that under the stairs was the safest place in the house, so the...

Sylvia Lewis Chepstow Memories

Sylvia spent a fair bit of the war years with her widowed grandmother, who lived at West End, Earlswood....

A Country Life For Me

We arrived in Bellingham, where all the pupils were housed, except my brother and I. We were taken over the...

Childhood War in Ealing

On the site in Northfield Avenue a large round emergency water tank was erected and remained for the...

Rose Palmer's Story

Film stars like Vivien Leigh, Beatrice Lily, Kay Kendal, and Lily Palmer. When we were preparing for the...

World War 2 Reminiscences

I left my job in the city of London as the office was evacuated to Hampshire, and got a post in the...

John Cotton

I went to school in one of the huts in the old camp off Alpha Road until it moved to a new...

1939 - 45 War - Evacuation etc

Whilst at New Bradwell School I took and passed the scholarship exam. My parents had to select which school...

The Bombing of Norwich

One bomb must have fallen very close indeed when the shop window was blasted in, the cupboard door slammed...

Child to Cadet

On reaching home Curley discussed the telegraphist training with his father who said that at one time,...

My Life in a Nursery

After a few months I decided to take my training for the nursery nurse's diploma, which I was able to...

A Wartime Childhood in a Leicestershire Village

The village siren was on the roof of the King William pub and the one and only fire engine was based in...

Childhood

Sister Doreen, Brother Peter and myself Joy. Then grasping Peter, with me holding on to Mum's back we...

Memories

I failed the 11+, but, in 1943 as a pupil at Camberwell Greencoat School the headmaster told my mother that...

Graham's School Memories during Wartime

I started at local Grammar School in September 1939 where an enthusiastic master taught PE and sport and...

Evacuation to Bedford and Llansadwrn

Eventually, I found myself in Llansadwrn, and the evacuee co-ordinator, a Mrs Dineen, billeted me with the...

I Was a Teenager During the Second World War

8 May 1945: VE Day Mickie and I went with 'The China Boys' a local Wallington band to Battersea...

'War Years of George Family from Walton Village'

My father Frederick was just 16 yrs old when he became the manager of the local butchers shop called...

Evacuation: From London to Lincolnshire

He said to them that if there was going to be a war then "these kids will have to go away". I...

Evacuee Account

Eventually, I found myself in Llansadwrn, and the evacuee co-ordinator, a Mrs Dineen, billeted me with the...

Woodseats to Firth Park in the Blitz

After the battle of Britain, when the Germans started to bomb cities at night, there were sometimes as many...