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Speaking the same language: an anecdote about my wife's encounter with German POWs

One of my earliest memories — I must have been about three at the time - was of going to the Common...

Lumley Sq deaths

There was also a family from the Birmingham area, who moved to escape the heavy bombing, living in the...

Don’t Panic

One day my Grandmother, Mrs. C. Doolan, was in the queue at the CO-OP in Prescot Road, Old Swan, Liverpool,...

LARSON B

In march 2002, the Northern section of the Larson B ice shelf broke off from the Antartic continent. An...

Dog Fights in the Air

My worst memories of the time was that we had to have Spitfires protecting the area while we worked because...

war wound

I fell over on the bomb site and gashed my leg open on a broken lavatory pan,so my sister and cousin...

Continued evacuation

I think in 1941 we then went to a mining village named Shirebrook in Nottinghamshire Where our mother was a...

The Spinning Top Hand Grenade

Andrew Davis, the conductor was born at the same time a few miles away. We had a doll's house made from...

How Hitler kept me out of Portsmouth!

Mother moved to Portsmouth and I had a new Dad... Dad sent us back to Wales to live with our grandfather...

Listening to the radio in Cornwall

A battery powered radio was our main source of entertainment and news during the war, with ITMA the...

Memories of an Evacuee

When I was there for four years, my Dad came on his fortnightly visit and I got so homesick I cried and...

Lucky Escape

I was 17- and during the bombing of Salford the whole family would go under the stairs and this night my...

A Minor Incident

I was evacuated to Whylle, South Wales and the next village to me was called Ynysddu... The bomb was then...

Bombs Over Tunbridge Wells

We lived at the end of Mountfield Road in Tunbridge Wells, which backed onto the grounds of Calverley...

Waiting for the all-clear

I lived in George Street with my mum, dad and two sisters and a brother... The milkman told him the siren...

1939 - the beginning of the war

Norwich is very flat and you could see for miles and miles and I remember one day looking up at the...

Memories of the War

I was about three when they sunk a boat and sent a bomb in one of the warehouses... Once I was at...

Evacuee's Story

I as 12 years old when my brother and l were evacuated from London to Worthing, when we arrived we climbed...

A Plane Wave

One morning in the summer of 1943 I was playing out side the front door of our house when my mother came...

Siren Suit

Every Saturday, my father who had fought in World War 1 and was an officer in the Home Guard, used to take...

After the Bristol Blitz

As kids we used to go to the local pond by the brickworks and catch newts and sticklebacks and put them in...

5) "Hello Jenny"

Our rooms were side-by-side and one morning Mother was wakened at about 2 o'clock by a knock at the...

Lionel Avey's memory of a Blitz bombing

I remember one day turning up at Gordonbrock Primary School in Brockley with my two elder brothers and...

Plane Rescue by Helen Young

My sister's husband, Jack, was on leave from the navy... Because Jack had helped save the piolet, my...

Sid's story

When The Messerschmitt Came

We lived in 3 Denis Park Crescent, Wimbledon SW20 during the war, my brother Allan, parents George and...