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"Pick up your parrots and monkeys!"

"Pick up your parrots and monkeys! Whenever we were going on the ferry to go on holiday to the Isle of...

DOODLEBUGS (continued)

The reason for these events was that a V1 had been shot down, I think by a fighter, and had crashed by...

Mr Holton

There were lots of things you couldn't get, like grapes, oranges, bananas. My brother was 5 years...

World War 2 - Evacuation

My mum told me that we are going to be Evacuated to a countryside in Suffolk... However in 1944 we returned...

At war with milk

There was one British soldier who knew how to milk a cow, so the others, by diverting the line of fire,...

To Scarborough when the bombing was bad

When I got evacuated

One usual morning on the 3rd september 1939 I heard on the radio that Britain had declared war on Germany...

The end of war party

At the end of the war I remember someone coming to the door and asking my mum what she could do or...

Welcome Home Dad ?

He arrived home on leave late one night unexectedly and, not surprisngly,my mother yanked me out of her bed...

Amy Johnson's Landing at Croydon Airport

I am at the Women in the War exhibition in Croydon and I have just heard the local children sing, from the...

Cooking eggs with an iron

For 4 years we slept in Hammocks, and I loved them... If we could get some eggs we would turn an iron...

My Green Pedal Car

I was staying with me grandfather in 39 Standen Road, Southfields, Wandsworth. I had a pedal car made of...

The night we were bombed out

The night my Mother, sister and I were bombed out of our house in Eltham SE9 in 1944, I will always...

Bombers

I have vivid memories of counting large formations of bombers, Lancasters, Halifaxes etc, flying low over...

Childhood Memories

During the war I had measles and Dad had to carry me to the shelter. My Dad had to help build prisoner...

Thunder under the Stairs

When the sirens went we didn't have a shelter so we crowded into what we called the 'dairy' or...

Collecting Shrapnel and lots of Knitting

One thing I remember was when we'd come out of the Anderson Shelters us kids would go around collecting...

Abuse of evacuees

Whilst the majority of stories focussing on the evacuation of children during WW2 discuss only the welcome...

A Good Life In World War ll

Hello we are Carly, Heidi and Jodi. Morris left school when he was 16, to work and help his family with...

Swimming without the Sea

Martha Martel interviewed by Lynne Ashton of the Guernsey Museum. Mrs Martel....

Shelters coming down

I remember living on Luther Steet in the WestEnd of Leicester and the Italians and Germans took down the...

THE END OF THE WAR

My mother and father and I got up very early on that day to catch the first bus into Maidstone to go...

Adopting a Minesweeper: My Childhood Memories

As a girl guide I used to make camouflage nets, and knitted for the army, navy and the air force various...

The Arnfield Story

One family, who lived in the same road as us, all went to Liverpool to meet a relative who was coming over...

We never returned to London

My Father stayed in London during this time but eventually was bombed out and he then went to Sunderland,...

A child in the war years