We would walk from Hove to Brighton and when we got there we would take it in turns to be in Hove...
I was born in 1941, on the Barbican, Plymouth... I was taken by my mother, with my sisters, to a large...
Many had come from Hull as evacuees to escape the bombing and stayed with their families when the War...
I was evacuated with my three brothers and one sister and we all got on the back seat of the bus... They...
I was evacuated in 1939 when I was 9 years old, my sister was 7 and my brother was 11... We headed...
On the way home, we'd pick up paraffin or a wet or dry battery for the radio and such like. we had...
At eleven we joined the scouts and St John's Ambulance Brigade Cadets. At fourteen scouts acted as...
At Christmas and birthdays nowadays children get, indeed expect, roomsful of toys. One Christmas, I got...
That day Binns, a large Sunderland department store, had dedicated one of its shop windows to collecting...
At Carnyorth School we had one decent football and I remember another chap and I were kicking the football...
My Auntie didn't have any children, and didn't much like having to put us up, but mum and I made...
They had stirrup pumps in case there were incendiary bombs. We could hear the planes and bombs and saw...
We lived at Wade's Cottage during the war. There was a wooden box that my mother used to fill with...
The house had a very large bathroom so when two evacuees came to live with us my mother hung a curtain the...
He didn't come home however when we expected, and one morning I got up and crept into my mother's...
I was born in Breslau and I remember the Rissions coming to our town and telling us we had to get out......
I used to deliver the milk in an old Singer car--with cloth top. One morning I was delivering milk in the...
The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme At last on May 8th...
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My father was an air raid warden and one night he told us to look out of our window and we could...
One night with the sound of gunfire,searchlights and the drone of aeroplanes overhead I was introduced to...
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