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Childhood War Memories: Evacuated to Blackpool

I was seven when the war started and my sister was 11. we lived in the suburbs of Manchester and, within a...

Memories of a Teenage Wartime

We left Catford station at 9.30 that Saturday and finally ended up at Ashford station about 12.30 where we...

A Childhood: Evacuated to Somerset (Part 1)

Mum and Dad had five children at the time `war broke out`.We lived in a three bedroomed flat in Homerton...

My Childhood and WW2: Bristol

I recall the air-raid shelters, our next door neighbour had an Anderson shelter while in a friend's...

Growing Up in Wartime Coventry

The Spring of 1940 saw me sitting the entrance examination for Coventry Technical College and I commenced...

Wartime Parenting

There was Brownies, shrapnel in the garden after an air raid and I was free to go to the British Restaurant...

A Vivid Childhood Memory.

I thought of the endless days that must be spent in the big empty, and gloomy, school with four boys and my...

Potter's Bus

My elder sister and I tended to join forces in roaming the woods and gardens to the constant consternation...

Evacuation during World War II: South London to Banbury

I knew something was wrong, however, when a large luggage label was tied to my coat buttonhole and I was...

Nine year old Londoner

We were, of course, moved from Sussex as we were beneath the paths of German bombers on their way to and...

Memories of World War 2 and the effect it had on my family

1944 had past and now 1945 and my life was happy with my grandparents and I enjoyed the village life and my...

An Evacuee at School in Bedford

When we got to Bedford, we waited in the open area in front of the station and then we were taken by...

Children of the Blitz

We were an average family and my father was the Chief Bunkering Officer for the port of Liverpool as he had...

A Charmed Life: Evacuation from London to Godalming and Back Again

At the outbreak of the Second World War, my father, Edwin Pearson, was three years old and living with my...

A London Childhood and Devon Evacuation

We left from a London station and before we left, my mum said to me, 鈥楳ake sure you look after your...

Tell Hitler to Stop the War

And S is for your School of course, a School of great renown Which gave a royal welcome to us poor folk...

A Bermondsey Boy's War

For the rest of the time we boys were out collecting shrapnel, nose-caps and shell cases for salvage; also...

WARCHILD

Quite suddenly there were less men around and my little world had become inhabited by pale-faced women who...

Air-Raids, School and Yanks!

In late 1941, or early 1942 an Army Cadet Force was formed in the town, with Mr. Leeson as Commanding...

Derek's Evacuation Number 2

I was with Mr and Mrs Jenkins,Ron next door with Mrs Pugh.The Jenkins had no children and were quite...

My WW2

I lived as a child with my parents and my elder sister in St Ives, Cornwall. It was a Focke-Wulf 190. It...

Extract From Young Henry's War

One day Henry and Ron turned a corner as they scuffed their way to school, to see the road blocked with a...

Memories of World War 2

We stuck it out in London until the Doodle Bugs started and then my parents gave in and returned to...

An Evacuee's Story

In order to fit us all in it was decide that we would take it in turn and only go to school...

Cleethorpes As A Kid

Having reached the dry sand areas, Mother decided we could not walk back along the beach to Cleethorpes...

Crossed Wires: Childhood Memories of Stepney

My father, known as Ike to friends and relations alike, was a postman/sorter working at the Head Office of...