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Away from the bombs to Devon

There seemed to be no shortage of petrol and we came home for lunch every day although the windows were...

Childhood Dramas

There had been a Samuel Jones paper factory just round the corner and that had been bombed and caught fire....

My Early Memories

As we grew older my sister and I would go to the local cinema, there was always a special children's...

Clydebank Blitz

On the night of the Blitz Ruby's Dad was working in John Brown's shipyard as a crane driver, he was...

Margaret Ridley's Childhood War Time Memories

My Dad was a London bus driver and saw a lot of bombing. The years went on and through the war everyone...

Happy memories of evacuation

I'd finished my first year at Drayton Manor school who was not going to evacuate their pupils, so I was...

An Unusual Day Out

I am going up to London, to see Uncle Ernest who is taking me out... The taxi is called, Uncle puts on...

June Martin's Childhood Memories of Belfast during WW2

We usually had a turkey, but once we had a goose and another time my father killed a white Aylesbury duck...

My Evacuation 1940-42

We were only there for about 4 or 5 weeks because my sister Nora developed measles and was very homesick...

Memories Passed to Children about WW2": In Bracebridge Heath, Lincs

Grantham was reguarly bombed becuase of the factoryduring the night raids on Grantham all the beds were...

Events Remembered by a Young Boy

We used to stand and watch the German bomber squadrons arriving over Guildford, Surrey in 1941/42 and use...

Evacuation from Guernsey

My sister Sylvia and brother Brian were separated, each going onto a different boat. My father was given...

Some Schoolboy Memories of WW2.

We saw dense black smoke coming from the next village, so we rushed on our bikes to find a crashed German...

Childhood War Memories from Woodville, Derbyshire

This is Betty Baldwin's story - she lived in Woodville, Derbyshire. My sister saw them when she was...

Evacuation Memories: From Kent to South Wales.

Tearful Mothers saw us off at Strood Railway Station, the start of what seemed an endless journey to South...

A Night To Remember: Liverpool Blitz 1940

I have no idea how long we waited, but after the dust had settled, we could hear the voices of the Air...

Memories of Evacuation and Wartime: In South Wales and Birmingham

Finally I was taken by a lady, a Mrs. Williams, who it turned out had two sons of her own....

Miscellany Collection of Childhood Wartime Memories: In Nuneaton

In Edward Street and Henry Street there had been a bomb dropped and the local co-op had been reduced to...

War-time Memories of a School-Girl.

Two of my brothers were already members of the local A.T.C. The younger of the two was the first to be...

Wartime Examinations

I think of it when the youngsters today talk of terrible strains and pressures, examination nerves etc.The...

The Bristol Blitz: The Day That Changed My Life

I lived at 22 Hengrove Avenue, Knowle, Bristol with my Father Fredrick FRANCIS aged 39 years my Mother...

One Child's War Part 7 A Family at War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

One of her grandchildren, one of my cousins, was in the A.T.S.. She drove 鈥渢op brass鈥� military...

Near Miss 2

Last Wednesday, the 10th November 2004, my wife and I were meeting two of our six grandchildren from their...

When Dad's Van Took Off

Very soon we were to hear the distinctive intermittent engine sound of German aircraft overhead as they...

When Dad's Van Took Off

Very soon we were to hear the distinctive intermittent engine sound of German aircraft overhead as they...

Top and Bottom of 14

My task was to go with a chap called Bingy, tying wheat into sheaves as he moved round the field ready for...