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Evacuees

Hello, I was an evacuee from PLYMOUTH to NEWQUAY and I was fostered with 20 or so others that I would like...

Unhappy evacuees

I went with another girl aged 14, while my brother went to a family with two sons... The mission of the...

childs memories of world war 2

One day my sister and I were down in the garden picking the rasperries from under the muslin my parents had...

Brenda’s Memory 3

Another luxury would be custard cream biscuits — the only biscuits available would be plain arrowroot...

Confessions of a goody!!

Contributed by Evelyn Atfield "Lyn" I was married in 1941 and because of food rationing will always...

A Night at the Cinema

I was enjoying a night at the Savoy cinema in Lincoln when Bettles the chemist on Saltergate was bombed. I...

Camouflage Nets

I was a child in the war and I remember making camouflage nets in the old infant school in Wilstead... We...

Altrincham Childhood Memories

Late 1939, two girl evacuees from Stretford were billeted at my parents home in Altrincham, where they...

My Parents' Memories

However, I carry memories also of my parents experiences i.e. my Mother trained as a fitter in the ROF...

British Shells in the Bath

I was 16 when the war started and joined the Navy when I was 18 Before I joined up I lived in...

Going in the Shelters

When we came to Nottingham from London, whenever the sirens went off we were always the first to be up,...

My Childhood Vivid Memory

The feeling of Comradeship was very much the thing in wartime, helping one another ,if only we had that...

Minnie

My sister sat at the table crying and saying "How can you possibly eat poor Minnie?...

Memories of German invasion of Guernsey

My name is Roselle Alarcon neé Fromage. As regards my memories of the German occupation was when the...

Wartime memories of Yardley Hastings

I can remember standing at my grandmother's door and the Lancasters used to come up from Podington. One...

Head Banging in the Black out

I remember when I was 9, I was walking back from my aunt Annie's with some friends and it was so dark...

Guides in the war

As an evacuee in the war the Guides and Brownies of which I was a member decided to put on a concert...

Bombers Overhead

It was 1942 or 1943 I can't remember I was only about ten back then, but what I do remember is having...

Day War was Declared

It was 11.00am - I was sitting with my feet on the chair - using the iron tongs to curl my hair......

Midnight Picnic

I do not really remember the raids, but just the excitement of being woken and taken downstairs to cuddle...

Childhood Memories

I remember having a Mickey Mouse gas mask with a red tongue which I carried always over my shoulder... I...

Berechurch Camp

Recently a 'glass-house' and a 'boot-camp' was a P.O.W. Camp for Bundesweler. One cut out...

Barred from the kitchen

The girls bathed in the kitchen so we were barred from there....

A Table Saved My Life

My father John Christopher Neil-Smith died in 1995. A bomb landed in the garden....

Something is missing

I know that he would almost certainly be deceased now but he had at least one other daughter before I was...

Refugees

At the time of Dunkirk, besides our troops being brought home, there were civilians who managed to get to...