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One Of The Lucky Ones

The cottage where we lived was down a lane called the twiten i think that is a name for a lane in...

my story

He was very enthusiastic to speak to me about certain things and even showed me some of his pictures from...

Doreen Bailey

We had an Anderson shelter, but also we had a Morrison cage in our cellar... My mother said every time you...

Under the stairs.

Her parents always asked me to go under the stairs first, this proved very embarassing because every time I...

Sweet memories in Brandon

Living in Brandon - we were ready to take evacuees but they never came. Disclaimer: This is A.Gardner...

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Goodbye at Cosham Station

The station master came along waving his green flag, and slowly Uncle George and the train disappeared from...

Day the brickworks was bombed

We lived in Horsham Cottages on Butt Park Road in Honicknowle, Plymouth during the war. Near to where we...

VE Day Street Party Clifton, Bristol

Mr Derek Gay was at this party on 8th May 1945 in Bellvue, Clifton - he was aged 7....

Mr Britten

It was nicknamed "Purdown Percy" as it was a big gun, the biggest around. One day a German bomber...

First memories

Oxton Road, Birkenhead. She was sitting in a Lloyd Loom chair nursing my baby sister of less than a year...

The Day The War Broke Out

We went from Clubmoor with my sister and mother and ended up in Borth in mid-Wales... Luckily someone took...

home life as a little girl 4

I was born in a small village in the south of Lincolnshire surrounded by air fields. The skies during the...

The German Plane

Our house had a large garden which backed onto the main London to Brighton railway line and a big...

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6 year old war evacuees stories

There was a barrage balloon on the arboretum. It was called ‘Big Bertha’... The air force and...

Bedtime Story

There had been some sort of noise going over and my mum had said the Doodlebugs were coming... However,...

‘Monkeys in cage!’

As told to her daughter Carol Young by Gwen Beales, nee Middleton. On hearing the sirens Mum would send her...

Mrs Little

I lived in Birkenhead and we were surrounded by camps - Airforce, Army and sailors coming in and out of...

Bristol and Somerset Memories from World War Two

I was in Whitehall, Bristol during the Blitz when the German spotter plane used to fly over and then there...

Incendiary bomb dropped in Acton and the pink slippers

THE FIRST AIR RAID ON PORTSMOUTH

After eight months of being evacuated to Salisbury I went home to Cosham; there hadn`t been any bombing and...

German POWs in Haltwhistle,Northumberland by Maureen Smith

I can remember watching German POWs marching from Haltwhistle Railway Station to Featherston POW Camp. I...

"Under The Table Kids"

It is an experience that I remember as a very small child, living in Wood Green with my parents, brother...

Evacuees and Americans

My mother took in evacuees, she would go to the station to meet them....

Americans at Green Park

It still makes me laugh when I remember the Americans marching past our house every day, shouting...