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Aircraft and Doodlebugs

On the steep hills behind Hythe gun batteries were positioned to disable or destroy the doodlebugs....

Evacuating Crossway Day Nursery

My nursery was in Female Chorus, Matron was in Wigs. Three German Jewish girls came to one of the...

A Childhood War in London and Glasgow

We boarded the Flying Scot and nine hourse later we were in Glasgow and at the house of an uncle with my...

Childhood Memories of Swindon, Wallingford and London during War

Uncle Robert was in the Navy on a cruiser and Uncle Len was a wireless operator with 12 Squadron....

My Wartime Experience as a Child in Hornchurch

At the time of the anti-personnel bombs we found a large tin full of "oil and metal rollers". We...

Expensive Presents 1943!

Our visits to Boston Spa stopped, Penny was hardly ever mentioned in our house... I played with my old toys...

Recollections of Colin Metcalfe, Part 2 1940 : Dunkirk, the LDV, cadets and airplane spotting

Redhill, Reigate's twin-town, was an important railway junction... Trains full of Dunkirk evacuees,...

A wartime childhood

My memories of the 2nd World War are rather different from those Granddad has told you about, as I...

A White Nylon Parachute was Wrapped Around the Remains of Our Front Gate

We were moved to a cottage, which was vacant on the outskirts of Kenilworth... I return to school in...

Memoirs of a Young Girl: In Sale, Lancashire

Even the Town Hall in Sale was badly damaged in a bombing raid - I well remember that night, in the...

Rabbit, Corned Beef and Spam! Life Just Had To Go On.....

When Dick came back from France he experienced his first London bomb — he hadn't experience...

A Wartime Childhood

He was most upset about the pigs, and went into the building to get them out while the large cylindrical...

Hard Hit

I was 11 years old when the second world war started and I lived in Southampton with my mother and father,...

War Years in Haynes

In addition, I recall Tony Moran, a boxer friend of Dad's, who was totally browbeaten by his even...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Flight and Capture [P.Thom : Part 3]

Because of the repeated bombing attacks, the Captain of the 'Mata Hari' decided to hug the islands...

A View of the War from Cornwall - part 2

TRAVEL Journeys from Cornwall to Devon and Somerset were by train via, of necessity, Plymouth North Road...

Early Days at School in Trowbridge

Church bells would only be rung if the Germans invaded and as the Headmistress considered the school bell...

Olive Halliwell (Coker): Evacuated from Liverpool to Skelmersdale

I remember standing on Orrell Park station with my gas mask over our shoulder, a little case or bag with my...

Moaning Minnie

We could hear the rumble of the explosions as the planes dropped their bombs on Birkenhead and Liverpool...

My Memories of World War 2: From Orrell Park to Skelmersdale

I remember standing on Orrell Park station with our gas mask over our shoulder, a little case or bag with...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Manchester by Hilda Burns

On what turned out to be the worst night of the Manchester Blitz, Dad had a premonition. Dad carreid on...

My Childhood Near Pocklington Airfield

Pocklingtom was subject to cannon attack several times, probably by bombers which had dropped all their...

1944: First Term At School

Every Monday morning we would take our dinner money and milk money to school, where the teachers would...

Just Another Day: V1 in Worcester Park

I can see my father now standing in the doorway of the shelter hands against th wall on either side to...

An Infant Evacuee in Thetford, Norfolk, and Life in Darlington

I didn't like Darlington, nor I think did my mother because we returned to Thetford, probably to be...

Whale of a time

I can remember clearly standing in our back garden in Hamden Road, watching a dogfight between Spitfires...