Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
I wanted to be a hero like my brother, so every day I used to watch out for German planes. On one...
That evening in the local pub, my father talked to a drinking acquaintance who told him this hilarious...
Finally I could take no more so one day I sneaked off to the tatties in an attempt to earn enough money...
Thus this is not my story alone - but that of the 48th and the 20th Croydon Scout Troops who manned at...
Some of us left the train at Warwick Bridge, and were taken to the church hall; the host families selected...
The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. Luftwaffe permitting, my mother put my sister and...
Off to Uncle Bills in Altrincham, on the bus, Auntie Maggie and me, it was a cold bright day, so it should...
We parked close to the Steble Fountain and, looking up at the Wellington monument, I noticed that the iron...
Wartime Britain, a London suburb, and a 13-year-old lad setting off at 7am to do his paper round....
My dad, who was a member of the ARP, spent some minutes calming me down and then told me he had to...
My D-Day story took place in a small Cheshire village, ten miles from the city of Chester, called...
My father had to drive over a girder blown into our rear garage access alley.The drive through the raid is...
The Greek army stopped the Germans for a week on the Western side of the country and then the Germans came...
I spent the war living in Oxford, where my Father was the Chief Inspector on the torpedoes being made at...
If in our Surrey hills village before the WAR we could enjoy really dark nights 'choc full' of...
In 1939 when the war broke out on 2nd September, I was a schoolgirl in Ceylon and lived in a town about...
In 1940, my Dad was serving aboard the S/S ANGLO SAXON a vessel taking a cargo of coal from South Wales to...
The following Saturday morning my sister and I used our pocket money to go from Overton to Basingstoke. On...
Ours was called Albert Macshiels - which even I could see was a strange name for a Belgian. Among us all we...
Alerted to the German invasion of France, the parents made a dash for England, leaving Mark behind in the...
All food was rationed and in short supply. the butter ration was 4 ounces a week. the sweet ration was 2 to...
Marjorie, the eldest, ended up at the famous Bletchley Park working with the code-breakers whilst Eileen,...
The translation of the caption in the German Newspaper that Willy sent, reads approximately: 'The...
At the time his energies had been diverted into assisting in the clerical work at the local ordnance...
After a serious German bombing raid on Edinburgh a plan was put in place to evacuate children from the city...
When the sirens came out for the all-clear the biggest recollection I had — and this is a child of...
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