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I can remember

Her garden overlooked a cemetery and the Anderson shelter was at the back of her garden by railings... I...

Volunteer on the WW2 Project

Its 10.30am on 2nd September 2003 and its my first day as a volunteer on the WW2 Project at CSV Media...

The Inside Story Of An Evacuee By Emma Harrison

EVACUATION My name is Noreen and i was an evacuee....

Air Raid Sirens & Double Summer Time

My lasting Memory of World War II is…although only born in 1940, I can remember the air raid sirens....

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VE DAY

We were asked to make Flags of the Allies.I was the only one in the School whose Father was in the Belgian...

When I was evacuated

I was evacuated to Walton, Cumbria the day after war broke out at 15 years old... I was evacuated for 6...

Teaching during the war

I was a primary school teacher in Warwickshire. During an air raid the children would shelter under the...

Banana Peeling by Helen Young Year 9

Once the war had finished, and David was around 7, we were finally be able to have bananas again... As he...

The Perfect Den

I remember my dad and some neighbours built an 'Anderson Shelter' in the back garden, but we...

Alan Phillips

When the war started in 1939, Alan was seven years old... Alan had two brothers and a sister....

Occupation after D-day — Dog and cats vanish

At this time the Germans were really hungry, they were really starving and unfortunately Auntie's three...

Legless in a shelter

I was in a family of seven and we used to have a Morrison shelter in our house, it was really just...

Finding The Way

My father once told me how he used to find his way around Spalding using names of pubs during the war. He...

Paper Lanterns.

My memories of the Second World War are the VE day and VJ day street parties in Oakland Ave, Long Eaton....

1000 bomber raids on Germany.

1000 bomber raids on Germany. My story attempts to convey the lasting impression on a 5 year old boy and on...

Clare's story

I remember also queuing for 2 onions and my son took them to the pig bins not realising how precious they...

My Experience

I was going to my friend's house for tea, there anti air raid guns at the top of Hogg Lane and as...

Sleeping School! by Helen Young

Sleeping School! by Helen Young. It was a case of being disturbed every night and going down three sets of...

Pauline Margaret Webb in London

I can't remeber very much, but our London house was bombed when I was little, aged 8. I was evacuated...

Mines Rescue Station, VE/VJ Day

My lasting Memory of World War II is………………living in the Ellenbrook Road...

Bombs in Bombay

My parents packed up and moved to the little villages, because they thought Bombay would be bombed... They...

The dreaded gas mask

We used to have to take these masks to school every day, they folded up and fitted into small boxes. One...

A Fancy Dress Party

On VJDay a party was planned for children at the local infant/junior school in Perivale, near Wembley....

A Child in Birmingham

I was born in Birmingham in 1938 My earliest memory is of going round the garden with a basket, collecting...

Townies in the Country

We all went out to a park in Enniskillen and I think we must have eaten the Laburnum Tree with its little...

Memories told by my mother about a doodlebug

I remember my mother telling me that when I was a baby she always put me out in my pram underneath an...

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