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My War Childhood in Bexleyheath: A View of London on Fire

We were at a wedding once in Erith when one stopped right over the church, well it seemed so, the vicar...

Living Near an Airbase

The state some of these aircraft flying over our house left one in wonderment as to how the pilots were...

My War Years: Childhood Memories of Chartwell: Part 1

One of my earliest memories was seeing Winston Churchill building the wall around the kitchen garden......

24 November 1940 - the First Great Blitz on Bristol

My father was in the A.R.P. at Avonmouth, about twelve miles away. Mother refused to go down into the...

Through a Childs Eyes: Memories of Cranleigh

Evacuees arrived at Cranleigh Station which was always a busy placeand a target for german planes... A...

The Anderson Shelter: London Blitz

By now we could hear the bells as the fire engines came nearer, together with the shriller bells of...

A Disabled Child’s War

We used to get under the table, because there were no Anderson shelters in Welwyn Garden City —...

Memories of My Parents' Wartime Concert Party

We had a bevy of pretty teenage girls who danced did tap and ballet, to include toe tap and musical comedy....

From Mock Invasion to Machine Gunned - Pt 1

Despatches', 'Second Front' and the daily toll of bomber crews 'failing to return'...

Carved on a Tree for 56 Years.

Their new homes were the Nissan huts erected around the perimeter of the Moyola Park Estate, Castledawson,...

My Childhood War Years

Unfortunately, my brother had the sandwiches that mum had made for us and we were put into different...

I was an Evacuee

A tall woman came to collect four of us, she was the Doctor's daughter, she delivered two children to a...

War Time Recollections: A Child in Norwich

Evacuation of the Gibraltarian Population

The French no longer wanted them in Morocco, the Governor of Gibraltar refused to have them back for safety...

A Child's War in Lincolnshire: Paratroopers and POW's

Her daughter Hilda had left home to become a teacher but visited often enough to marry Alec, a...

From School Girl to Code Breaker

I was a pupil at Southampton Grammar School for Girls when war was thought to be imminent and on the 2nd...

Memories of Childhood Days during World War 2 (part 2)

We had many private bus companies e.g. Browns Blue from Markfield, Comfort Buses from Ibstock, Hilton and...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 4 - Evacuated, then back to the Blitz again

There was mum, Ron Beryl, David and myself. They could not always get back home quickly and I was left to...

The Harris Family:Evacuated to Northampton

There were seven of us children and Mum; Derek was still a baby We took the train to Northampton... Joan...

Childhood Memories

I attended school at Rothesay academy in the Junior School, although I had passed the 11+ exam at home, to...

Janina's Story

I remember one day, just after I had come home from school, I was looking out the window and saw the German...

Memories of Truro County School

Several evacuees arrived at school, Monica Withers from Bristol, others from London, plus some who had...

Small Boy's View of World War Two: In Bristol

The crowning incident was an incendiary going into the garage and through the seat of an Austin 7 singeing...

Evacuation

David was ill all the time we were there znd after a lot of thought my mother wnet back home with him,...

A Boyhood in A Wartime England; Part 4

My cousin Ernest was already writing letters home from the Sind Desert in India: to me, his youthful face...

Wartime Memories of East London and Essex

I was born in East Ham in April 1940 at the home of my grandmother, and although my parents at that time...