I was 6 when the war started and went to Southrop village school with my brother and sister.I lived on a...
Bill was woken up by his mum and dad and told to go out side to see that glassgow docks the sight...
I remember those of us who had bikes, going out with Miss Elliott to collect foxgloves along the hedgerows...
I remember vividly the Battle of Britain and watched it from our garden....
We had two evacuees from Finsbury Park in London. My mother said you don't have a London accent and she...
There was a large crater in the road about 30 yards from our house. The only damage to our house was a...
On 1 September 1939 the three brothers James, George & John were evacuated from Liverpool by tramcar...
When I was about 3 and a half or 4, towards the later part of the year, I was walking through Barnstaple...
My mother and I had just been shopping in Stoneleigh Broadway one afternoon and we were just turning into...
Unfortunately, at that moment the music reached a quiet passage, so the entire cinema heard the frantic...
My father came home on a 48 hours pass to find his family, myself aged 1, my sister aged 6 years and...
In 1944 Granddad Tom was captured by the German army... Granddad Tom got really mad and dropped the bucket...
21 years later I was on holiday in Benidorm and my name was announced over the P.A. system, the hotel asked...
Mr & Mrs Croft got her a job on the railway at Epsom, first as a cleaner and then as a porteress......
From that ward I was sent to another, where the staff were nicer and they were very worried about me, and...
We had a big heavy black out curtain I used to draw pictures in chalk on it of teachers on the curtain...
My memories are of "doodle bugs" being chased by "Typhoon fighter bombers. The engines cut out...
When my father was in the Home Guard he used to do a duty in a wooden hut with a long window...
At the end of the day, only my Grandad and his brother were left, and so the vicar and his wife let...
My name is Jessica Brand and I am at Marden High School, North Shields and I am putting this story on...
Together with my 2 elder sisters I was evacuated at first to Salisbury in Wiltshire where we were at a...
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