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My Brother and Sister in Wellyn Garden City during the war.

My Brother and Sister in Wellyn Garden City during the war. As children my brother and sister lived in...

EVACUEE IN SOUTH WALES - SHEILA FENN

Gwen and Lynn Morris lived in a flat in a beautiful house which once belonged to Lord Mardy. The large...

Still Best Friends

I met my best friend Pat Findon during the war... Pat and I have been friends ever since then....

Unaware of the war

The hotel owner had no experience of looking after so many children and it was the first time most of us...

ex pupils of whitehawk primary school

We are Nathan and Marc and we interviewed Norman Ford who was at our school in WW2. Norman said it was...

When the Germans bombed Hurran's nursery

During the war I witnessed a German Junkers 88 bomber mistakenly bombing Hurrans garden nursery instead of...

City boys on the Farm

One morning Mrs Campbell sent my cousin Tommy and I down to the next farm with a sort of bucket to collect...

Evacuee from London to Newton Abbot

We arrived at Paddington station with name and evacuee information labels around our necks....

Churchill on the radio

There was no TV and there were wonderful comedy programmes like Tommy Handley, just kept us going... I wept...

A Bakery in Carmarthen

The town was very busy with evacuees - mostly from London... I worked from 8.30 to 5.30 at the bakery,...

3rd September 1939

The grooves between the ridges of the elm held my mind transfixed —immovable — and for how long...

prisoner of war

Somerset had a Land Army, my Grandad Bill Hillier was a farm labourer and lived near to Misterton on the...

Evacuation to Coventry

At the age of ten Jill was evacuated to Coventry during the school holidays....

Liberation - ecstatic with excitement

I remember we had a couple of cycles and my mother and father had one of my brother and I as passengers...

The Star Public House

Beer was in short supply and public houses did not open every night, but if the Star had a delivery, they...

"And the baby stayed asleep!"

My mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Williams was going to Fishponds, Bristol pushing the pram with her baby son...

My First Ice-Cream

I was about ten years of age so I thought I could still remember what ice-cream was even though I...

Memories of an evacuee

We then went on the bus to London Euston Station, and then we went on the train to our destination, Western...

False Alarm

One night we were playing cards on a Sunday night and all of a sudden we heard a funny noise like a...

Irene

Our school was closed and we had school at my home. After they had gone home, I used to have to put...

Being Bombed Out Of Bed

I can remember being in bed when there was a massive expolsion, the window was blown out and there was...

Air Raid Shelters In Northampton

I presume they were built with sand and lime, and if a bomb was to drop about a mile away, these air...

Bombing Raid - July 1940

I am a volunteer writing this story on behalf of Miss Geraldine Hyde of Surrey. Ms. Hyde's late father...

My First War Time Memory

My first memory of the war was being lifted out of my cot by my mother in Aberfan, South Wales, and wrapped...

Adopting ships

At school we adopted 3 ships a minesweeper, HMS Burn and an Andradite... A Captain came on a special visit...

Rationing

We got sugar, tea, margarine and just ordinary things. Butter was a luxury back then....