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When Peace Came

We felt safe and loved, there wasn't any fear except for about the enemy and yet you didn't know...

The great potato discovery

On my first day in the Land Army, we were billeted at a rectory, and I was asked to go and fetch...

Next One鈥檚 For Us!

I can remember being in a Morrison shelter, we had a Morrison shelter, and we used to sleep in it at night....

V.E. Day

Victory slogans appeared on all the shelters such as 鈥淕OOD OLD JOE鈥� That night my brother and I...

My Evacuation Story

It was a good job I was evacuated as my Nan was bombed out twice in Kilburn and her windows totally...

A bruised blast

Suddenly I heard a distant blast and a few moments later I was blown back from the window and landed in the...

Childhood memories.

It must have been before Christmas 1940 because he was killed on duty with the fire service during the...

Jumping under the table

I remember having a label tied to me and my sister with a piece of string at the Railway Station. We were...

Searchlights

There was a battery on a hill not far away and,at night, us kids would sit on our bedroom window sills...

Knickers to the Troops

Every Sunday, my friend Beatrice Hart and I used to walk up and down the promenade at Plymouth Hoe 鈥�...

Horay, the school was bombed

Because my dad was in the army, he was sent around the country and we joined him when he was stationed in...

good Welsh Village School memories

Four were evacuated in 1940. Dolau, Radnashire, Mid Wales... Travelled from Seaforth Station....

Evacuated

I remember walking down Princes Street with this big pram with all us kids and we had to get on a train,...

Kathleen Boyle page 7

We collected frogspawn and newts and kept them in tanks placed on a windowsill at aunties along a...

Manna from Heaven

I used to cycle home to Clapham Common, when I heard the unmistakable sound of a doodlebug bomb....

Mussolini's last moments

My husband has some pictures he acquired - two photographs someone had taken of Mussolini and his...

My Childhood War Memories

The boys in my class at Goosehill had all been up to the top of Cottingwood to get a piece of the...

Childhood Memories

I was born 1938 in Liverpool.During the war my dad was an air-raid warden by night and worked on docks by...

Churchill causes an alert in an East Riding Village

When Reverend Storer went down into Cranswick he heard that Winston Churchill had been asleep on a train...

The Rag and Bone Man

They lived in Berkeley Road East and when we turned off the Coventry Road, the first thing we saw was the...

The wonders of prefabs

We lived in a prefab in Chadwell. Three people lived in our prefab 鈥� this was me, my wife and my...

A child at War (cont)

A child at War adding a few more details to my original story, of the day my sister & me were...

Evacuated to Cheltenham

My mother and sister were born in Cheltenham and their two youngest were evacuated to Cheltenham. Auntie...

Basket of Incendiary Bombs

I was 11 years old living at home in Gravesend with my Mum and two Sisters. We were sheltering under the...

Evacuation to Elstow, Beds.

My brother was 10 and I was 9 and we went with our school to cricklewood lane station to be evacuated with...