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Thin Evacuees

My brother said someone was taking it, so we hid one day and saw the eldest boy of the family helping...

War Memories Of Jean

It was 3rd of September 1939, I was 7, and it was the day Hyde Wakes. On VE day we went down...

Hard Memories of Evacuation

The journey from Rainham, Kent to South Wales was an exciting one because most of us children had never...

Evacuated to Weston Super Mare

My parents sent me privately, and I was in with a family of six , which was very nice because there were...

Margaret’s story.

There were houses and a police station over the road, they could see the light coming through the window,...

The Scattering of My Family Due to the War

I was born in Iceland in 1942; Dad was stationed there during the war and met my mum, Octavia Ost. One of...

Parting love one's

We all met at our school as instructed with our gas masks and kit bags, i was one of four children leaving...

Christmas 1940

Just before Christmas 1940,my nursery school was bombed.I had taken my Christmas tree to school with all...

"A Luxurious Evacuation!"

Arriving at Wroxham, Norfolk to the village Hall, where all the hosts and evacuees were taken... I remember...

A Grandstand View

We lived on a steep road on Portsdown Hill which had a panoramic view of Portsmouth Harbour and docks. We...

Roger the dog

One day, Roger somehow managed to work out how to open the door to the meat safe and stole the joint of...

A Family of Performers

We'd perform Peter Rabbit, 'King John is not a Bad Man' and nursery rhymes. I also remember...

Local archives best?

My story is set in 1943/44 when I was seven or eight years old in small former fishing town of Buckhaven on...

Our Back Garden Air Raid Shelter

The Anderson shelter, as I remember it, had a sill all the way round - the concrete sealed the dome shape...

Child's memories

We had an Anderson shelter in the garden of our house, & I can clearly remember when I was about 4...

Evacuation of Denham

I distinctly remember queing to go down to Liverpool Street tube station every night. This was in 1943 and...

Evacuation to Suffolk and Midsomer Norton, Somerset

My step-sister, Pamela, and I were then evacuated together to Midsomer Norton, near Bath....

V.E.Day Memories

I was 13 years old when my mother died from T>B> I was the eldest in the family with two younger...

Evacuee

I was in East Acton, W12 in London aged 9 or 10 when we left our parents in London... We stayed there...

A Very Fortunate Life

Weighing out small — sometimes just ounces of sugar, tea, butter and bacon. One afternoon we...

Billitted Soldiers Dunkirk

Having soldiers billitted on us after Dunkirk....

MY LOVELY, LOVELY BROTHER

My brother and I lived on Aylsham Road, Norwich... We saw a plane on fire coming towards us and my brother...

Butcher boy's mistake

I was a schoolboy during the war at St Illtyd's in Cardiff but I worked part time before going to...

John Phillips' canary

Childhood memories

Luton is a town in a hollow of the Chiltern Hills... All around the town there were burners which burnt old...

Horsey Adventures

In 1943 I was 22 years old, living at 28 Bentswood Road in Haywards Heath with my parents, brother and...