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Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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Evacuation

And so, on Sunday 2nd June, 3100 Folkestone schoolchildren assembled in the Park near the railway station...

From York Road to Ballinamallard

Christopher Johnston spoke to Eileen Wells about her thoughts on life in Belfast and as an evacuee in...

Evacuation to Wales

The farmer`s son, Cledwyn, had a beautiful voice and we learned to sing the hymns too... Eventually, after...

How I Remember Dieppe Raid: A Child Hospitalised in Chichester

We had other air raids after this and the results were much the same as the first,but slowly there were...

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Fond Memories

I went to Glass Street School and remember finishing school at 4.30 and going to Burgess's in the...

Clacton 50 Years Ago

I lived in Thomas Road with mum and three sisters, Barbara, Hazel and Doreen. It was one open space...

Childhood Memories until 1941 of Wallasey Cheshire, including the Blitz

My brother was born on 21st December 1940 and due to the bombing my mother decided it was safer to leave...

A Normal Life: Childhood Memories in Birmingham

My Aunt and Uncle lived with Grandad because they had been 'bombed out'It was talked about as a...

Memories of Life as Evacuees 1939-43

He was the gamekeeper and John was not very appy there so eventually went to live with a family of children...

War Memories On the Isle of Wight

I was born in 1930 on the Isle of Wight, the youngest of 4 brothers and 3 sisters. My eldest brother was...

Evacuee's Story: From Southend to Derbyshireicon for Story with photo

My brother and I arrived at Derby station from where we were taken in a little old van to Church Gresley in...

Memories of 1939/40

Returning from Dunkirk, my godfather, John Skelsey, - I think an officer in the Highland Division at the...

Two Short Evacuations

We lived in East London and I was the middle child of five - my sister Joan was 10 years older than...

The Horrors of Evacuation

I'd never been given such exotic food and the lifestyle was so different from my one in London. By the...

A Child's View: Evacuated from Belfast

In primary school on the Falls Road, Belfast, it meant little to me, until the bombs began to fall... This...

Five Years' Absence: Memories of Father's Service in the 8th Army

He had photos of the then boy King of Iraq and has a wooden cover copy of the New Testament that he...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood

I am aware that Bradford was not a main target for enemy bombs, although the one time when a bomb hit the...

Two evacuees: Birmingham to Minchinhamptonicon for Story with photo

Auntie Eva used to bake, bottle and make jam and wine and the most delicious fruit juice, that stood in a...

'Off the Top of My Head': D-Day, 1944

However Mr Wylie McKissock a renowned neuro consultant surgeon of Harley Street and also St.George's,...

A Letter to my Daddy on VE Dayicon for Story with photo

There were long tables set up down the middle of the street, and everything you could have wished for was...

Joan Griffin's Childhood Memories of WW2

Rain pelted down as our parents half dragged us up the long garden path, our feet squelching, slipping and...

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz

Back home in the town by the river Mersey, my father, who was an ARP warden, had noted that the strongest...

10 January 1941 — The Blitz — Portsmouth

I had slippers on my feet, which were sodden because of walking through all the water in the streets in...

3 Ogilvie’s Close

They then returned to open up their Kirriemuir house in Ogilvie's Close and remembers they first had 4...

Early Wartime Memories

It was then that our Headteacher learned that our destination was to be Taunton in Somerset, while the...

Memories of Wartime Chelmsford

We became used to the sound of enemy aircraft and one night an aircraft was shot down over Chelmsford, my...

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