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Early Childhood - Wartime and Before

I can remember standing on my grandparents balcony, they having had to move home twice already, and...

War Time Memories

Soon after my mother arranged for us to be taken to Barmouth, where we were put in a hostel,. We slept in...

Grandma's Evacuation

My Brother was 3 years older than I was when we were evacuated from Charlton in London, well known for its...

The Last V2 - Final Attack in Orpington, 1945

It was the morning of the 27th March 1945, Mum had gone to clean the library in Orpington High Street, it...

Evacuated to Norfolk

I had a good mate, Derek, who was also from London, and because he was a big boy he prevented us from...

Ipswich Wartime through the Eyes of a Child. Part 2.

Sometimes Mum took me for walks to play in Alexandra Park and Christchurch Park. One thing that people who...

The War as I Saw It

One day my elder brother went to queue up at the butchers and I was in the basement of this small terraced...

Evacuated to Rhydyfro, Pontardawe

My sister Marlene who was 4 years old went to a family in Pontardawe but I went to Rhydyfro school with a...

Mobilisation and Evacuation: Childhood Memories of Life in Holland

Schoolboy Memories of War in Jamaica

The only products that weren't short were the products of Jamaica like sugar and bananas and citrus...

Jean Claughton's War

There were Italian prisoners in Whitefriars and German prisoners in Hellifield Pele. As a minister, my...

A War Evacuee

Village children went in the morning, and Londoners in the afternoon... Nothing was happening in London so...

My Memories during Wartime: Northamptonshire

We stayed with an Aunt and Uncle in Rothwell for about a month because everybody thought that London would...

Audrey's story [Walsh family]

On the day war was declared I was with my mother and younger brother in a policeman's house in...

Friend or Foe: Memories of Gas Masks

With the masked squad walking round the 'gas' hut the specialist Sergeant then ignited a shallow...

World War Two Seen by a Child in Liverpool and Wrexham

Prior to 1939 my family moved from Liverpool to a small bungalow outside Wrexham....

Childhood Memories of Life on the North East Coast

One night Rowland was in bed and he heard sirens and a German bomber plane had dropped a landmine nearby...

My WWII Story

Early one morning in mid August about 20 Boy Scouts assemble at Liverpool, Exchange Station for the train...

Damage from Bomb in Next Street, and Possible Later Consequences.

We lived in what I discovered later in life was a desirable three-bedroomed detached house called Earlham...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood: In Bexhill, Sussex

He huffed and puffed a bitbut was otherwise unhurt. we lived near Collington Halt and at the top of the...

childhood in India 4

On the other side of the ship in the cabin opposite my brothers, my sister aged 10 and myself very nearly...

The Few: Childhood Memories in Kent

Adolf Hitler had instructed his Luftwaffe Air Marshal Hermann Goering, 鈥渟end your bombers over to...

Evacuation from Salford

My two older sisters and I were assembled with a large group of other children at Mount Carmel school,...

Memories of a boy growing up in the war

As children we were scared and we thought that the Germans were going to attack us immediately.I was a...

Part of my Experience Living Through WW2 1940: London Blitz

Our home was in a small street in Canning Town called Elphic Street very close to the London Docks and East...

Half a Peanut and the Japanese Landing.

The Japanese never landed but my cousin Ian thought they had... I slept through it, but my cousin Ian on a...