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The Watermill Evacuees

Because my grandparents had a Morris car I was relatively familiar with the countryside to the south and...

A Schoolboy's War in Tunbridge Wells

We Tunbridge Wells’ children had no idea then how lucky we were, for we never had to suffer the...

WW2 as seen by an under-7 year old: In Suffolk

I don't remember much of the war, fleeting memories of being woken up when there was a...

MY STORY…MY WAR

During 1939/41 I was sent to live in four different ‘family’ homes before ending up in a...

My Wartime Childhood Years

We stayed in Scotland for 3 years until Dad's ship was sent to Belfast where we once again joined him....

One Child's War Part 1 School Bells and Sirens by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It was absolutely obligatory to carry them with you all the time, and woe betide any child who arrived at...

Life in Hemel Hempstead during the War

Outside of school hours, these children were housed in wooden huts at Pixies Hill. The next morning we...

The Long Way Back

Having tried to protect us in the Anderson shelter, the brick built surface shelter and finally the...

Another Time, Another Place

Joey Jacobs’ eldest brother Frank, is an SGT/Pilot. Joey Jacobs said “all Spitfire pilots were...

A Six-year-old Boy Takes on German Bomber!

And any German bomber that got a bit lost, got chased away by our fighters, got hit with AAA, or...

Life at the Windwhistle Inn

Beneath a canopy of beeches, the Windwhistle Inn of 17 century origins, standing on a ridge of 800 feet...

Elizabeth Hazelwood

I was evacuated from London at the start of the war to Woolond in the centre of Dorset at the age of...

A Miraculous Crossing of the Atlantic without a Convoy October 1941

She bought a train ticket to Basra and once there hoped she could get a boat to England but whilst the...

Anderson Shelter

One day, after school, my cousin was kicking a football against the house wall in the back yard, when...

Gordon Dickenson-Bright lights of Yarmouth and the Bombing of Bradford

Bright lights of Yarmouth and the Bombing of Bradford....

A Child's Memory of the Second World War

Dark streets,car headlights with metal top hats to restrict the light and bumpers painted white.The buses...

Evacuated

I'm a lonely little evacuee and I'm only eight years old I don't know where they are sending me...

Taking in Evacuees

In a week or two The evacuees began to arrive in the village; some came from Rookery Road School in...

A Wartime Wedding

The whole village helped with our wedding, giving Mum little bits of their rations... We weren't...

Bombed Out: Aerial Torpedo in Essex

The official incident report reads as follows: 21/8/40, 12-44 Brentwood 2- H.es 1 is 300 yards East of...

Schooldays: In Gateshead and Bishop Auckland

My mother's sister, Nellie Wanless lived in Merriden, Western Australia, together with her husband John...

Family Values 2

Mrs. Newbold was at first glad to get another girl - popular with landladies who wanted an unpaid servant -...

Sunderland Memories: Childhood Memories

One raid I remember was when St. Thomas's church in John St. was hit and the vicar was killed in the...

A London Evacuee to Dorset

One of my first memories was of being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and hauled to the...

WW2 Experiences of an Evacuee Chapter 3.

Germany were now directing their newly developed flying bombs at London and South East England... On March...

Delphine of the Dings War - From Pillar to Post

Following the first Air Raid, my Aunty Win and Uncle Bert had come to stay with us as Aunty was too nervous...