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the happy story of an evacuee

The bond between Violet and her younger brother is strong even to this day, even though he now lives in...

Walkeringham School Music Festival Winners

Walkeringham School Music Festival Winners...

"THE WORST PLACE ON EARTH"

Later in the war I was evacuated to Earlham, near Manchester and all the boys from London who were...

My Lost Brother

I lived in Mosley Street with my mum and young brother. Above the house there was a factory called...

Growing up during the war

Until 1931, when electricity was supplied to parts of the village, living conditions were much as they had...

Preparing for the air raids

We put sticky paper on the windows and we lined the curtains with black material. At school wooden frames...

Wartime Tunbridge Wells Life

He travelled all over England as part of his pilot training, even though he enjoyed it he never actually...

Many memories

My two eldest brothers were sailors, one was an able seaman... I have fond memories of the blackout days;...

War declared

August 1939 I had my 12th birthday and 3 days later war was declared.I was visiting my cousins just around...

Telegram

We just didn't understand what was wrong but later we learned that our neighbour had just received the...

Games

The thing my mum thought was naughty was when we used to rap door knockers and run off... Me and my brother...

Waiting

I was 7 when I was evacuated to Buckley with my older brother and we had to sit in a hall... I...

Evacuee

I was aged about three when evacuated from London to Armthorpe, then a mining village in open countryside...

A child's experience of evacuation

I remember the bombs coming down and the air-raid shelters in the garden, and it was great fun for a seven...

Off to War

My Mum took me to liverpool Street Station, to 'see Dad off to fight the Germans'. I was about six...

Memories of an 8yr.old in Birmingham

Luckily the school was not damaged although bombs were now being dropped around the Birmingham area. My...

childhood memories

Firstly I recall, as a small child, being wrapped in a blanket and being taken either into the cellar of...

Walkerburn wartime memories

Mr and Mrs Telford and their grandchildren were real Glasgow folk. Mr Telford had worked in the Singer...

Was that pencil really a bomb?

I hadn't heard anymore of this, that is until today when national newspapers published the story that...

Childhood memories of Mr Peter Moody

My brother was two years older than me and we had to look after ourselves as dad was in the RAF regiment...

Unexpected Tricks

There was an aerodrome beside us, Fearn, where the 鈥渇lying coffins鈥� planes flew from. He...

My father, rugby and WW2

My father was John Dowey, he died in Dec 2003 and loved to tell me stories about his time in the RAF...

Taught By Nuns

My Mum and my two brothers had been bombed out of our house in Ruislip. As a result we moved again to...

Village life in Glyn Ceiriog during the war

They used to come from Park Hall, and walk right down the village, through the mountains....

I Remember the Stars

I Remember the Stars...

The Chief

I collected 1022 books with the use of my bogie Travelling to Radcliffe and Farnworth to relations and...