When we returned home after the "all clear", although the glass was intact, Mum found that the...
She had hoped to go to Durham University, but her father who was the owner / director of Chepstow and...
During the height of the bombing of Birmingham we spent all of our nights and even some parts of our days...
As Pat Graham I grew up in Greenisland on the shore of Belfast Lough, 8 miles from Belfast and 3 miles from...
My first memory of war was after we had moved a couple of hundred yards down Grange Road into “the...
Needing a chicken for Sunday lunch Mum didn't do a very good job of strangling the oldest bird and the...
Evacuation of children from London on 1st September 1939, as written by Eileen Wright. A good few children...
I had learned to identify British fighters, bombers and gliders, and the difference in sound between...
The First Air Raids After we had been there about two years the first air raids on Coventry started on the...
The reason it was so early was that he had served in the Grenadier Guards for two years in the early 1930s...
My mum and dad picked me up and we got down into the dugout in our back garden as quickly as we...
He had a dislike of the evacuees and called us “a load of London sewer rats running away from a few...
There was a snooker table in the village hall and I would spend my meagre pocket money there at lunch...
Due to the number of large engineering works in Leeds, which would have been a prime target for enemy...
When the first air raid warning sounded I was playing with my friend in Oxhey Park. We took refuge in a...
The Wardens and other men used to stand outside until a bomb was head coming down, then they use to dash...
In Kirriemuir a community air-raid shelter was built in the centre of the town, but I was never in it. His...
Sam and I went to Larkfield in 1944 but when he was at the Boys School he can remember that he saw...
My two sisters were billeted with a farmer and his wife whose house was about half a mile inland from a...
I had a younger sister and she was a baby, she had a very big one that my Mum had to fit...
In Glasgow in 1940 the ships and docks in Clydebank were one of the targets of the Germans and I remember...
Our house was not suitable for living in and my uncle came to take my sister and myself to stay with my...
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