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Growing Up In The War Years

At age 7yrs I went to a Convent school ran entirely by French nuns who listened in to the free French radio...

Ipswich Wartime through the Eyes of a Child. Part 1.

On Sunday 10th November 1940, with my auntie, carried me along Rope Walk from Oxford Road, where I was...

Urban Legend

Off to bed, Ken boy鈥� she said 鈥渁 good night's sleep is what you need鈥� The strangest...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 1: Back to School - September 1939

But before long the numbers crept up to 140 and some of us had to billeted with families in the town as...

In the Beginning... Childhood Memories in Suffolk

Then, I can remember the retreat from Dunkirk; there was no news of Dad at all and I can hear my mother...

Childhood in War Time Fishponds, Bristol

My earliest memories were of coming out of the infant school by the park in Manor Road and the siren...

Growing Up during the War

I carried a lamp, we all sang songs till the all clear went, if the siren went on a night we would...

A Wartime Story from St Malo

In early June 1940 my parents and grandparents, who were all still living in St Malo, were given warning by...

HOME SWEET HOME

I went to Elfrida School in Bellingham Estate until I was evacuated to Cornwall. Living in Cornwall was...

War Time Evacuations

I believe Mum and Dad sent money to these Aunts for us to stay there but I'm not completely sure about...

Sarah (Sadie) Murray

My Dad was in the Army so Mam received a proper wage and family allowance for the kids, she was better off...

Evacuated to Ireland

A. No there was just My Mom and Dad, my brother Jack and I. When I was 6 I was evacuated to...

Evacuees in Acrefair

My mother was soon approached to receive another child from Liverpool, and it was Donald 鈥� known as...

A landmine falls on Norton Street, Old Trafford by "David"

There were two houses, our house and the house next door, and the landmine had landed in the road outside...

I Remember

Sometimes we slept under the stairs, us two children tucked at the back of the cupboard and Mum and Dad...

Thoughts on WW2

Thus began the first part of my war experience,smetimes boring,sometimes exciting and other times very...

From the frying pan to the fire.

The day we travelled to Oakhill, Somerset on evacuation we left behind us the bombing in Broad street...

Evacuation of Mothers and Children from London in 1939

At the appropriate time I had to lead the mothers and children out to the street where we joined the long...

Everlasting Words: Childhood Memories during War

It was 1940 and the German air raids had started after the Battle of Britain was won by 'The Few'....

My Memories Of The Second World War Years

Then my Mother got a job as a usherett at the Odeon Cinema in Sutton Coldfield. Straight from school I had...

A Near Miss

At the outbreak of World War II I was 9 years old and lived in The Avenue, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead and...

Sarah (Sadie) Murray

My Dad was in the Army so Mam received a proper wage and family allowance for the kids, she was better off...

A Child in Wartime London: In Lewisham

I was born in 1935 and lived with my parents at Lee, in the Borough of Lewisham, southeast London...

Concentration camp. Internment Camp

A monk suddenly addressed the group of tourists, "Is there a German among you?.. The exchange rate for...

Joshua Mulholland's War Childhood in Belfast

Trinity Church was bombed one night and at the back of us Eglinton and Carlisle Street was practically...

An Evacuee's Tale

Immediately after my arrival home the Blitzkrieg started in earnest when the most serious attempt at...