大象传媒

AFTER DUNKIRK

One Saturday tea time a girl in our class at school told me 鈥測our brother's home". I said he...

Ann Mann in Keynsham

The damage to the road from the bullets was easy to see. Later our street - Stockwood Vale - in Keynsham...

Rocket near miss

The front walls of my Grandparent's house, which were made of lime and plaster, were completely torn...

War time memories

We saw Catalina Flying Boats, also Sunderland Flying Boats. The Flying Fortress was a big bomber, badly...

Bombs in the trees!

A memory that I frequently remember about the begining of the Second World War - This is of a great big...

Born in a Nissen Hut

Alan's mother, Vi, said he was so tiny that his bed in the hut was a drawer from an old chest of...

An Unexploded shock

I was walking down an alley way in Rottingdean on my own after having just been playing with friends near...

Jean Diggle's Story

During the war I lived at 6 Montrose Avenue, Tonge Park, Bolton with my Mother, Father, and younger...

Piano and Cucumbers

In 1943, I was at boarding school in Harleston, Norfolk; when Norwich was being bombed my three friends and...

An Evacuee in Trebanos

I was very lucky because I was picked by a lovely family, Mr and Mrs Powell and their daughter Derith who...

The Naughty Hide Away

Jean Carr and her friends used to sneak away to a little hide away which was a World War 1 air raid...

A Black Child in England

THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW BY FAITH MATYSZAK, OF BRIGHTON, GIVEN TO 大象传媒 SOUTH EAST TODAY...

The Air Raid Shelter at Frog Lane

As a child I remember going into the air-raid shelter under the railway on Frog lane in Wigan... And in the...

Armed Guards in the School Yard

The school was next to Hornby's Mill, and in 1943 and 44 the mill was full of American soldiers - so in...

A Toddlers Memories of Occupation - 'SEVERE' PUNISHMENT.

Mr. Basil de la Mare of Courtil Blicq Farm, St. Andrew's, told me as a young man a group of them had...

Pigs in the wood

My uncle Jack managed to get round the order to report all livestock by keeping his pigs deep in the woods....

A Good Stew for the Searchlight Crew

During the war my father owned a farm in the Kent countryside and in one of the fields was stationed a...

I was a 'War Baby'

My story begins sometime in November 1943 when an American tank arrived in a small township in County Down...

The Morrison Shelter

The Morrison Shelter...

The Children's Compassion

I was a 'War Baby'

My story begins sometime in November 1943 when an American tank arrived in a small township in County Down...

Siren suits, Vera Lynn and doodle-bugs.

Siren suits, Vera Lynn and doodle-bugs....

Where on earth are they going?

It became apparent with time that aircraft that flew low over the house at 9am was headed to Berlin, and...

The Beginning

My father was a Prison Officer working at the newly-opened Holleslay Bay Borstal Colony - it is now a...

Strawberries

We were only allowed to hand it over, the code breakers had to sign for it, and then send it on often...

Lucky escape

As a child I used to go to Osmaston Park hotel to school in the basket room because my school was on...