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Landmine in Somerset

Having recently read a book about the blitz on Bristol I discovered that only one landmine was dropped in...

Without Water

Consequently a number of people had no water, but we were fortunate so people came with their buckets,...

MEMORIES OF AN INFANT

I was living with my Grand-Parents, because my Parents were working and living in Africa... All I really...

A Short Visit. As Told by Enid Middleton nee Villis

In our home in Manchester Road late 1939 /1940 when I was about 8 years old, we had a little girl slightly...

Community Spirit

My lasting Memory of World War II is………………The wonderful community...

My Memorable Toe!

There was dancing, singing, food and general merriment. When the celebrations took place for VJ Day,...

Shelters

I remember hearing the planes overheard - the chugging sound - and going into the Anderson Shelter in the...

Base or military unit?

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

Ordinary Memories

However, I upset my mother enormously after she queued to buy the first stock of bananas; I spat it out in...

A Doodle Bug Hit Our House

We could not stay there that night so we went to a friend's house not far away... We stayed with our...

Practise Story

My brother and the egg

When the siren went after the announcement, my mother and auntie put my brother and I in the cupboard under...

Games

We played lots of different games. Whip and Top, rounders and cricket....

evacuee

evacuee...

Blackouts

He used to check there were no lights showing — if there was there was a bang at the door and he...

Childhood

1940 I was 12 years old when I was evacuated to Lady Whittington Moe,Finchampstead, Berkshire from...

Bomb over Broomfield

He used to take me outside when the sirens went, one day we were out and we heard a bomb fell behind...

V2 sighting

In late 1944 my mother, Caroline Metcalfe, was taking her twin daughters across Blackheath to the air raid...

An accident at lunchtime

At lunchtime one day me and my sister were going home for lunch from school, we were going to catch the bus...

Bombings

One teacher we disliked was ‘bombed out’ which meant her house was bombed. The girl I sat next...

Waltor's War

I was posted missing, bintary had been taken down in the street at Wintow. It was 16th June when we left...

Mr T.W.Taylor

Lived in Essex with his 2 sisters. and brother he had not seen his dad in six years... He evacuated Essex...

Farming in Scotland during the war

My husband was a farmer, and I was a cheese and butter maker, and I milked the cows. My husband got off...

Experiences of a 7 year old

I remember going to Paddington Station... My brother and I went to one house and my two sisters went to a...

Disruption of my secondary schooling

During the Manchester blitz we would go down to the cellar... I went to Cheadle Hulme for one year....

When Newbury was bombed

I remember the day my school in Newbury was bombed... The bomb also hit the Alms Houses, and the church....