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Evacuation Horrors and Bomb on the Stairs in London by Betty Sutton

I lived with my parents and younger sister at 9, Montrose Place, near Halkin Street, Hyde Park Corner. Life...

Early WW2 Days in Salford

Another story was that of a man who was caught signalling to the German bombers with a torch from behind...

Home & School on the Front Line:Childhood memories in Kent

In the summer of 1940 the ‘real’ war started with the fall of France followed by the Battle of...

Being a Paper Boy

Having struggled home with the weight of two Sunday papers under my arm, I started to consider the...

3 September 1939: Sunday Morning 11 O’Clock

But when it came to it Mum couldn't bear to part with us and said ‘No if we are going, we will...

St George and St Martin Stories

Margaret left a note with the people at the YMCA in case Michael turned up — which he did .......

The Evacuee:Coventry to Kenilworth

I called them Auntie and Uncle Draper... My only real ‘war’ memories are of being lifted high...

A Child in Wartime: In Yorkshire

Woken from sleep I was zipped into my new siren suit and hurried outside down the garden path towards the...

Jean’s War in Bournville

Air-raids - the terrifying sound of the air-raid sirens - this still sends shivers down my spine when I...

Bloody Bombs

My mother jumps up and runs towards the kitchen door leading to the passage to wake up my sisters who are...

A Few Yards of Silk

Hundreds of people were trudging along like refugees, across the park to the other side, where a school had...

And I was in the Brownies - Part 3

We had all nationalities in Leamington Spa.As well as Czech,Begian and Polish soldiers, we had...

Wartime Margate

There was quite a few children evacuated and when my dad came out of hosiptal and we had to move forward...

My Wartime Treasury of Memories

Dancing was a very popular pastime and Loughborough certainly had its share of venues, including the Town...

1939 and Beyond: Evacuation from London to South Wales

My father dug a large hole in our garden, in preparation for the Anderson shelter at our London home....

War & Evacuation (Clayhidon, Devon)

I can remember him taking my brother David and me down to the Bristol Bridge area one morning after one...

Dorothy Collis Part 6

Our men of the Fourteenth army, often called the Forgotten army, were still in the midst of war, suffering...

A Home from Home in Petersfield

It was mainly because of their growing need for something more than the many pubs and the one cinema in the...

Growing Up through War and Giving a Hand on the Land

We lived 18 miles from London which was really rural at that time but near Northolt aerodrome. Despite the...

Evacuee 1941

Later in 1941 the Air-Raids on Hull intensified severely and the authorities decided to evacuate as many...

The Evacuation

The bus stopped and we got out and a lady told me I couldn't stay with my sister, because there...

Evacuation to the Isle of Wight

We stayed there no more than a couple of weeks and then moved down to the Isle of Wight, to my...

The Blitz was all My Fault

My friend was to bring the statue but as she wasn't at school, the teacher asked me if I could collect...

A Child’s Eye View Of World War 2: Chiswick

Within a year my beloved father was called up and joined the Royal Navy the outstanding memory of that...

V.E. Day, Sirens and Maggie's Teeth

This women and her family heard the sirens and ran in for the neighbour next door and they said to her,...

The Evacuee part 1

In 1933 we moved to 14 Wimbourne St Shoreditch where my brother Alfie was born in 1934,in 1935 we moved to...