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A Bit on the Side

This was the armoury which was built as a facility for the local Home Guard of which my uncle was C.O. It...

Wartime Memories of Grays, Essex

My father, as a science teacher in a seconary school, was not called up to the armed forces but served in...

A Day in the Country: Fire Extinguishers, and an Aeroplane Crash, in Sussex

Several people from a nearby cottage were gaping at the scene as firemen with hoses struggled to connect...

A Long Railway Journey 1940: London to Bolton

We took a local train into Bolton where we had to change stations, I remember, for London trains. At London...

Where Were You on the Day War Broke Out? Childhood Memories of Cromer in Norfolk

We arrived in the early afternoon, along with other guests, and the hotel owners had been serving afternoon...

The Day War Broke Out

It seemed so funny to me to see Teachers and children arriving to do their lessons in our house and classes...

Childhood in Derby

Fortunately we were about three miles away from the railway and Rolls Royce — the main bomber targets...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experinces 6 -air raids and the attack on the WAAFS barrage ballon

Beryl and I had just got to the house when dad, who was in the extended part of thhe garden, called us...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 11 - Return to London February 1945 and the end of the War.

Mum had made up her mind that she needed a plumber in the family, so I was taken to several building firms...

EVACUATION

The main pleasure for us as children, was that there was a general rush in the morning to get out and pick...

When I Was Ten During WW2

While taking a short cut through Bold Street we came across a number of bodies blown to pieces by the...

First, The Yanks Invaded Aintree

Eventually over sixteen thousand of them were camped there, with the racecourse turned into a vast parking...

Evacuation Memories

I remember we went by train, where from I don't know, and we arrived in Newton Abbot in the dark. It...

My WW2 Memories: Childhood in London

Mum used to get furious and upset when the Bedford people would stand at night and watch the red glow over...

My Wartime Childhood in Pilsley, Derbyshire

I lived in a small mining village in Derbyshire with my parents and two younger sisters. To read her...

The Harris family Evacuated to Northampton

There were seven of us children and my Mum who took the two youngest with her -Derek was still a baby. Mum...

Borland's World War II Part 1

This led to hardship for my family as my father was earning £4 4/- a week as a motor mechanic with the...

This account of one day in 1940 is taken directly from my daily war-time diaries which I kept as a school girl, living in Kent.

The all clear at 2.10p.m. When 3 friends came to help Dad with the roof of the dug-out, they told us that...

A Somerset Boy Remembers an American Soldier

At the time Philip Sealey spent a great deal of time with his uncle and aunt, Cissie and Harry Woollan, in...

My Home Town

By this time Dad had become a Air Raid Warden, he took use thats Mum my sister and me to show use...

The War - a Boy's Eye View (Extract of last two pages of 19)

I witnessed Churchill driving through the throng to lunch at the Palace, and heard his speech in the...

Dad's Near Miss

My Dad, George Braybrook, worked for a record company, Oriole Records, who were based in New Bond Street....

Manchester and Other Places From 1930

I attended Crumpsall Lane School and was in the Life Boys at St. Matthews Church, Crumpsall... Soldiers...

Taking in Evacuees: A Personal Story by Mrs Florence Eliza Clipsom, aged 89 years

Taking in Evacuees: A Personal Story by Mrs Florence Eliza Clipsom, aged 89 years. My next evacuee was a...

A Child's Memory of Being the Man of the House: In Sheffield

Standing at the window of our second house in Ecclesall in 1944, with the ground sinking steeply away, and...

One of Many

There was no room for about 10 of us on the buses so we went by horsebox to meet up with about...