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Memories of the Liverpool Blitz

One bomb landed a short distance away at a house at the back of Townsend Avenue creating a very large...

Bathtime

We had a dressing-up trunk full of old beaded black shawls and rustling taffeta petticoats and we would...

Marlene's Evacuation to Oxford

Josephine went to stay with Mrs Allan in Jackson Road, Oxford whose husband was in the army... Frances came...

VE-Day

Another I remember concerned Hitler and the Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels. There was an outrageous...

Schoolboy War Experiences in Wolverhampton

One day, the sky, as usual, had plenty of trainer aircraft such as Tiger Moths, Airspeed Oxfords and Avro...

John Lund's War

Dad wrote his story and my sister has put it on 大象传媒i as "Henry Lund's War", so do go and read...

Street Trader's Son's Story

When I was 8 years old in September 1940 my family's home was bombed in Lewisham London. Nobody was...

A Young Girl in East Acton

One of the office girls came to work one morning and told how a German bomber was shot down and they found...

Recollections of war: In London and Devon

We eventually arrived in Glasgow and we undertook a lengthy train journey to visit my grandparents in...

When the Americans came: Memories of a Young Girl in Northern Ireland by Bridget

We lived at my grandmothers, one night she said 鈥楪et up the Germans are bombing Derry. My uncle said...

Luftwaffe Attacks on Winson Green

My father told us a bomb had fallen into the canal water but hadn't exploded, but two had just totally...

My War in Peckham, London: Childhood Memories

During this period on two occasions I had to dive for cover going home from school when marauding German...

A Child in 1940: Some Serious Lessons in Wartime Surrey

Anyway a german bomber came low over the common with a trail of smoke behind it and Dad ran indoors and...

Charlie Nearly Blows It!

My mother upon opening the door was horrified to find her children on the step encompassed by the arms of...

An Evacuee in Torquay, Devon

My name is Anne Fordham and I was evacuated from my home in Charlton, London, when I was 8 years old to...

Evacuation from Kiel

When their mother becomes pregnant shortly after my arrival, I am placed with a Frau Wolle, who has one...

Totnes View

They knew that my favourite Uncle ken was down there, with his wife, Aunty Em, my mother's younger...

Playing Tipcat and Other Tales

I shouldn't really tell you this but if anyone left an old pram out we'd have the wheels and axles...

A Child at War:Stanningley West Yorkshire

This did cause some consternation to my parents when I sauntered into the kitchen and placed it on the...

My memories of WWII

My Mother Isobel, would go and buy Ron's favourite and we would walk out to RAF Filton, the aeroplanes...

Remembering

Come on Girls get out of bed. those were the words mamma always said. There we sat, each with favourite toy...

My Father's War in the Village of Plawsworth

One was the son of a lady in the village and he was shell-shocked after a submarine was hit. German...

VE Day - Trowbridge Celebrates

War Comes to Welney

German planes tried to bomb the Welney Suspension Bridge... We were instructed that after it was dark we...

Memories of Evacuation

My sister Iris and I are put to bed in a large room with at least two or three other children, but...

Bread and Jam Every Day

Without me knowing when she got off the train at Seven Kings station apparently Joyce went round to see my...