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Evacuation From Leeds On 1st Sept. 1939 Chapter 2

Our family were members of St. George's Church, Leeds, where the famous vicar The Rev... Mrs Deakin, a...

Worcestershire welcomes Clacton's children.

I was 14 years old and lived at Clacton-on-Sea, on the flight path for German planes heading to bomb...

Seen Through the Eyes of a Teenager in World War 2: In Dundee

The sewing teacher was not amused: "What are you doing, girl?" she asked, "Get wool and knit...

... it never did me any harm :-)

I lived with my gran in Wilsons Road, Hammersmith and mum lived with aunt Aggy and Molly in Aspenlea Road,...

Wartime Folkestone a Child's View

On the whole the wartime in folkestone for me was a happy time,scarry at times,but unfortunately the...

Born into war

Dad was called up to join the Grenadier Guards when I was a year old and the night before he was due...

Extract from a Northern Childhood

Our older neighbour who remembered the first world war advised mum that it was better not to go to the...

From A Child During The War-To A Bride In Peace

Our family hair-dressing business and home was opposite the Hastings pier, our postal address was in St...

An 11 Year Old Boy's War Recollections: In Hull and the Merchant Navy

In May 1944 I joined the Merchant Navy, and joined a ship in Greenock, on the River Clyde. My mother was...

A Young Boy in Wartime Wiltshire [D.Gurney : Part 1]

In August 1939 Dennis, then aged 8 or 9, and his 5 year old brother were taken on a holiday to Wiltshire...

My Childhood Memories of World War II

I remember when the German bombers came over, us children knew the difference in the sound, then the siren...

Recollections of a Teenager's War: Grief and Joy in Liverpool

The German was still machine gunning us as we ran into the shelter.I firmly believe that driver saved our...

Schooling and Sardine Pie in Surrey

Anti-aircraft guns would attack the German bombers as they approached London. My friend's father grew...

The Clouds of War: Memories of Childhood in Kent

At that time, the Luftwaffe was beginning to concentrate it's bombing campaign on the city of London...

Evacuation 1941

They were about the same age as me and my brother and we all slept in the same room - me and...

World War 2 As Seen By A 10-to-16-Year-Old Boy

Sidcup was on the south-eastern outskirts of London and, after France had been overrun by the Germans, the...

Memories of Youngster in WW2

While all the children except babies were evacuated under arrangements made by the local council I went to...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh in Essex: Home Life

Occasionally we had a chicken dinner and eggs could be swapped for other commodities that were in short...

Snapshots 3

The material came from one of the weekly jumble sales ; some old wool coats, in different colours not too...

War Memories of Tipton

By coincidence just at this time my family had moved from Walsall Wood to Tipton, in fact to a nearly new,...

John Smith- Wartime Memories.

I lived with my father in a terraced house opposite a pub called ‘The King Billy’ in Robert...

From Tottenham to Tuddenham

There was a crater in Tuddenham and the windows of my sister's bedroom were shattered. So, I often...

A Chance Meeting

On learning that my mother wasn't to happy where we were living, Aunt Nell mentioned to her that there...

Evacuated to Worthington

Because we lived in Aston, an inner city area of Birmingham, there were lots of factories around and during...

Macaronis and Doodlebugs

Fleeting acquaintances with the Luftwaffe in the Vale of Belvoir; during a "holiday" to Glasgow,...

The Eccentric Encounters of a Four Year Old Evacuee: From Great Yarmouth to Stanton on the Wold

The Eccentric Encounters of a Four Year Old Evacuee: From Great Yarmouth to Stanton on the Wold. We were...