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Growing up in Wooler Avenue, North Shields

There was a bad thunder storm that day; my Mum was doing the ironing so she turned the iron off and closed...

Three Generations in the War

I was born in early 1941 in the Midlands between Birmingham and Coventry where both cities were badly...

Helping Dad do repairs

Later in the War we had to go to shelters on Epsom Downs, they were dug into the chalk, it was always...

MEMORIES OF WW11: Things that stay in a child's mind forever.

4 Toys were sent over from the Australian people for the British children and we had to go to the Town Hall...

After The Screaming Noise Stopped

When the aerodrome started getting bombed by Germans we spent alot of time down in the air raid shelters....

4) Thrown in the gutter

We went to stay with my Grandmother in Fareham who lived in a little cottage in the High Street. My Mother...

Strange Dream

Gran said 'Yes, that's right: when the sirens went off, during the blackout, we used to tuck you up...

YMCA Aberdeen

Dad was Flight Sergeant 1/c Workshops, eventually with the Dam Busters. When I'd finished my schooling...

Disruption in Education

I was evacuated to Scotland to my grandparents' when they bombed the docks but the dishonesty meant...

Evacuated with Chocolate and Condensed Milk.

We were sent off with a bar of chocolate and a tin of condensed milk... I never found out what happenned to...

From shelters to bananans

During the war I lived in a small village near Durham called West Kyo. I was at school at the time, and...

The Two Soldiers

Boys from the Modern School and Bedford School, and girls from the High School and Dame Alice Harpur......

At Home during the war

We were very lucky, we lived in a big house on Woodland Road, Darlington, my father had been a farmer and...

I`ll take that one

I was to be sent to Kendall as an evacuee... The hall was full of people who lived in Kendall, the system...

A German machine-gunner waved at me!

Well, our delivery arrived and as well as 200cwt of potatoes, a box of onions there was a box of oranges. I...

Early War Memories of Joan Ward

One night I was fire-watching in a Church and started to play the organ... On another night, with an...

The Childhood of John Sharp

For fun John collected and played with pieces of shrapnel which are bits of bombs, also John and his...

A Difficult Evacuation

I was sent to Brighton as an evacuee, then on to Twyford hoping for accommodation but there was none... My...

Nana and Grandad's World War Two Story

After a wile all the children got sent to a new family my Nan went to a lady called Mrs Tibbles, she...

Scrubbing at the Docks

Having just returned to Rainham from a hard evacuation experience in South Wales, I started my working life...

Mushrooms and Doodle Bugs

I love mushrooms and after a while the Doodle Bugs arrived with flames coming from the rear of the bugs....

Grandma's POW necklace

I remember being at home in Gedney Dyke, Lincolnshire, with grandma when I answered a knock at the door....

Cyril's story

We were evacuated to Whittlesea in Cambridgeshire... From north London we were taken to Whittlesea in...

WAR MEMORIES FROM J BAIN

I came down to Kent in 1940 and I was in the Anti-aircraft First Light Division and was in charge of the...

Ray's memory of VE night

People played squeeze boxes and piano accordions, slate and clapperboards... As lads we had bombsites to...

Sunday roast

I was evacuated in 1939 with my family moving to Bearsted in Kent and myself going with the school to...