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Joan Elliott: An Evacuee

We eventually arrived at a village hall in Tarvin, my mother had told my 11 and a half year old sister to...

Evacuation

We went back to Liverpool just before the 8 day bombing of Liverpool, for those 8 days we spent from 6.00pm...

The Passing of the Americans: In Northern Ireland

We, children, lived on a Refugee Settlement Farm in Northern Ireland, Millisle, County Down; on the coast...

Moving From War-Torn Portsmouth to Surrey

My mother must have felt it strange leaving Portsmouth, with all the " mod cons" - running water,...

A Wartime Childhood

We could not understand the Lowestoft speech and they couldn`t understand Derbyshire, but we made good...

Scraps from My Old Diary

Mum told me to wipe it off, and told me use my blackboard that Uncle Bill made for me... Mum has sewn...

From one war zone to another

We were only there until we could be dispersed to other places, mostly England or South Africa. In October...

The Great Adventure

Me and a lad called Kenny Wilkinson wer sent to live with a Mrs Thompson and her two grown up daughters,...

Memories of an Evacuee from Leeds, Yorkshire

At Addingham one side of the Wharfe valley is bounded by Beamsley Moor, Beamsley being the hamlet about l...

Make It Stretch

Then came the day when the Japanese shelled Newcastle harbour from their miniature submarines,, after doing...

1st September 1939

My brother and I were pupils at Freemantle School but as we had a sister who was still a baby my Mother...

Evacuation: A Happy Childhood

But my sister and I boarded a Steam train and after what seemed like hours and hours we reached our...

Misty Memories of My Life during and after the War

There were plenty of bombsites where we played,American solders,and rationing.Mum kept chickens which came...

A Belfast Easter Present

I'm scared, Dad doesn't usually shout at Mum. As I turn the corner I look back and see Mum and Dad...

West Norwood at War

There were many bombs in the locality and it was thought that the germans were aiming for the TANNOY...

War time reminiscence: In a Bristol Hospital

As a result of the situation in Bristol my parents decided that my mother, my sister and I should go and...

Wartime Schooling in Wotton Under Edge

I remember being there when the Bristol Aircraft Co suffered a daylight raid and hearing the explosions...

A long dangerous journey to freedom

Mum and I left Mons in early May 1940, just a few days before the Germans arrived in town on May 12th...

The Making of My Life

The most horrendous memory I have of Cornwall was after the Doodlebugs started to fall on London....

The Making of My Life

The most horrendous memory I have of Cornwall was after the Doodlebugs started to fall on London....

War Games: Childhood memories in Edinburgh

For our little gang; Ian Ashley, Peter Bowen and Michael Buchan, a wee Bren-gun Carrier was a killing...

My Memories of WW2: A Child in Padstow

Another time when a soldier was discharging his rifle into the air, the bullet came through my mum and dads...

When a German Bomber Crashed at Puriton

With the same, I heard a screech of tyres, a sports car - later to be found to be an MG -...

Loughton at War

Later that year a whole stick of bombs landed on Tyshurst Hill and demolished an almost complete row of...

Continuation of "3 friends one survivor"

The three of us lived in New Cross south-east London.We were aware of the first attack on greater London...

From enemies to friends

I was only 11 at the time, but I remember there was a build-up to the war and in August 1939, Daddy's...