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Air raid shelters at Grange Park School

Fairy Aviation were making planes in a large factory in North Hyde Road, the AEC at Southall which was hit...

Memories of Pamela Ford, a Londoner from Wandsworth

Pamela and her sister were evacuated to an aunt's at Melbourn near Duxford, where they attended school....

WW2 at the Seaside: Childhood Memories of Blackpool

Various large buildings, such as a tram depot, an indoor market, a multi-storey car park and similar...

The Kingdoms

The Kingdoms...

Baby Days

Our warden couldn't find his helmet when the bombing started so my mother gave him the brass rose...

Blitz memories: Northern England

Mum told me later that, when they had changed trains at Kings Cross and Waterloo, coming back from their...

R Tindall-I remember: Childhood Memories of Llandaff and Huddersfield

Our house was very near to the cathedral at Llandaff, Cardiff, and on the night the German bombers...

The Lost Briny: Memories of the Isle of Wight

Here was a wild unspoiled section of coastline east of Bexhill town and with not a single...

Evacuation: Walthamstow to Kettering

I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...

Fleeing from the Japanese

3rd September 1939 On board PO and O Steamer Viceroy of India in the Mediterranean between Italy and Malta...

My War: Evacuated from Surrey to Somerset

My sister Pat and I played happily in the garden with our friends whilst our parents wondered exactly what...

Wartime Memories: Chessington

It was certainly noisier for half a mile up the road was an anti-aircraft battery that would pound away...

My War in Sheffield

After midnight things quietened down a little in Pitsmoor but bombs could be heard going off until 2am.By...

Childhood Memories at Guildford

My family lived in the North Lodge that had originally belonged to Langton Priory and part of our large...

Last Move

Mrs Druce had two children of her own, Josie and Fred but she also had two Birmingham boys Jim and Les...

Doodlebugs and Rockets

It was Sunday and, as usual due to the dangers of flying bombs, Mum insisted that I play in the back yard...

A War-Time Childhood, Langdon Hills

My older sister and I made our usual Sunday visit to our grandparents in Berry Lane Langdon Hills, they...

Nine Billets in Three Towns

I was sent to Glamorganshire, not with the children from the Whitstable but linked to East London children...

Air-Raids: Liverpool

My family, Dad Henry, Mum Roberta,Sister Josephine, and Brother Peter, lived in a small terraced house at...

Evacuation From Bow, London

We arrived in Chorley Wood station and while we were waiting outside wondering which way to go, a lady...

Journey into the Unknown for 'Children's Dunkirk'.

On 1st September 1939 German troops moved rapidly over the border into Poland and the Second World War had...

Childhood Memories: In Pontypool

Going on a few years when I was a member of the Girl Guides we took part in many events:- one of...

Two Kinds of Luck Story of an Evacuee

This time his luck really changed for the worst, John encountered the Whiteings, a well- to- do family who...

The East Grinstead Front

I was in a teashop along the London-road when a lone raider released eight high explosive bombs over the...

The First Air Raid: Over the Firth of Forth

I stopped to watch Junkers 88s etc. versus Spitfires, naval guns and shore artillery, but when the...

School Days

Our local Infants School in Manor Park, East London, closed for a while; many children had been evacuated...