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Town Farmicon for Story with photo

I spotted some friends, Estelle Vinburgh, Adele Taylor and Donald Levison, and my best friend Pat... My Mum...

Evacuees from London

On the Saturday we got to Dane Road Station to find that there were a number of buses in the car park...

Good Comes From Evil: Part 2

Experiences Of A London Boy During WW2

One day my friend and I followed the fire engines from Hammersmith to London Bridge were we watched the...

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The Crash

In fact it was the second crash I'd witnessed, the first being a few years before, on that same...

Childhood Memories of Growing up in the War

I went to a church school in Stalybridge and when the sirens went off we used to cross the boys playground...

Our Bit for the War effort: Neighbourhood Concerts in Rotherhamicon for Story with photo

Dad went down to the rubbish dump to find old crates and boxes to make wooden seats for the audience to sit...

A Young Person's First Impressions: Birmingham in the Blitz

Birmingham- my home, was an obvious target for German Bombers, although after all these years it seems...

Boscombe Memories

When the Dunkirk evacuation took place, many French troops came to Boscombe to King's Park Football...

Douglas Dale Evacuee — A Sixty-Five Year Connection

I first billeted with Mrs. Renee Sanderson, her small son David and another evacuee from Leeds. As Leeds...

Beccles Railway Station

It was a junction for the line from Beccles to London Liverpool Street, the lines to Yarmouth and Lowestoft...

London during the blitz and my evacuation.

The home was emptied and I was taken to London by bus and then transferred to a police boat and taken down...

Childhood in India 3

We had problems with the Indian Congress Party, they said the British were starving the people of India, in...

Dad Couldn't Afford to Pay the Cost to Keep us as Evacuees

We lived in Sheffield — Pitts Moor — and myself and 2 brothers were sent to Watton, in...

Growing up in East Ham during the Waricon for Story with photo

In 1940 a German bomber on his way to Bristol was attacked by the RAF, and then jettisoned his bombs which...

"Oh, What a Lovely War?"

The enemy made occasional excursions to such places as Hornchurch, North Weald and Duxford but most of the...

The Lake District

I was evacuated in September l939 from Todds Nook School in Newcastle upon Tyne along with my two brothers...

The Baedeker Blitz April-June 1942

On April 27 and 28 the bombers drone woke us again and then the thump of bomb bursts made us aware that...

Ditched!

After boarding up the windows and making the front door safe, we piled into the car with a few spare...

A Boy's Memories: Sheltering from the Bombing, South of London

Dad did not have the door fully closed and I saw the metal framed window shake so violently that it seemed...

A Dutch Story

As an English woman living in Holland, I was recently given a "baby book" written by the parents of...

Children of War: In Salford, Lancashire

A perfect peace stolen when I was jolted back to reality by loud harsh military commands from army...

Nancy's War Memories

I was brought up at Kirriemuir Junction, the former railway junction between Forfar and Glamis. There were...

An Excerpt from WW2 Diary of H.J. Valeicon for Story with photo

Our newspapers had regaled us for months with stories of the might of our armed forces, the strength of our...

Wartime Memories: Dorothy in Leicestershire

I lived in a small village called Leintwardine - it is on the borders of Shropshire, Herefordshire and at...

Wax Polish

I looked up at this lady with a kind face handing me a glass full of milk. better than a jamjar of...

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