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Long Distance Evacuee-India to Liverpool

I had arrived in India as an importee in 1937, my first memories are of sailing through that...

Life accepted as normal by an 8-year-old from 1940 to 1942

I was told there was no panic, my cousin went immediately to her post - outside the door of the room where...

Middle Years Part Two

I chose the Army Cadets and under the command of a middle-aged teacher we were drilled in the playground or...

Fundraising for the Firewatchers as a Girl

When the air raid siren went off we had to hide in the cupboard under the stairs and one of my evacuee...

My Memories of WW2

As a consequence, when the Air-Raid Siren sounded, I was carried across the road to the public shelter...

The Manchester Blitz, Christmas 1940

My mother took my little sister and one of my brothers across the road to a friend's house and the ARP...

In 1939: From Poverty to Country Pursuits in Bedfordshire

The two girls went to Baker's farm and us three boys went to the head gardener's house on Lord and...

A St. Just Evacuee

There was not enough room at the village school so we used the basement of the Methodist Church. P.S. 1942...

War Memories of a Schoolgirl from Dartford

My uncle arrived to take my cousin back to Manchester and I went with them because my parents thought I...

An Evacuee

I vaguely remember everyone gathering at the school, which was St Thomas's, Lower Crumpsall, Manchester...

A Solicitor in the Fire Brigade

I remember after the fall of France - it would have been about 1942; our eldest child David, he was just...

Childhood day's in the 1940's: Ulverston in Lancashire

He even said they were brought in on German E boats with german prisoners on board. We saw what was called...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Cheadle Hulme by Lew Grepp

I attended the Johnathan Robinson School on Church Road, Cheadle Hulme. I remember a teacher, MIss...

Childhood Memories in Dukinfield

My brother and I were allowed to take one toy each, I always took my doll 鈥� Stella and my brother...

The Met Office and Bombs in a Field

To us at the time, it was something of a mystery but after the war the camouflage was removed, the huts and...

A Child's Experiences

The first thing to learn was that in the event of an air raid, a man called an Air Raid Warden would...

Bombs in Birkenhead/Evacuation

With the sixpence I took my sister to the Argyle Theatre, we even had enough for some sweets and even had a...

Evacuation: To the Church in Ewell

Eventually we were told the bomb which had landed in Seaforth Gardens, but not exploded, was a dud. P.S....

My Memories of the War - Mary Burgin

Because it was dangerous in Derby I was sent to stay with an aunt, Hilda Steeples, a school teacher who...

An Evacuee to Wymondham

Betty, Tony and I were taken to West Street Pier, Gravesend by Mum and our aunts. Betty, Tony and Joan...

War Time Memories

I was at my uncle's farm at Walton Grange, near Driffield, harvesting, and loading the shelves of corn...

Going to see the King 鈥� the V.E. day celebrations of an 8 year old

Tomorrow Rosie, get your glad rags on鈥� 鈥渂ecause we're going to Buckingham Palace to see the...

A Child's Wartime Memories in Barnsley

Dad had gone to war and Mum had just given birth to my brother. I remember asking my Mum where was my...

A Boy's life in Kent 1939-1945 (Pt.I)

When I returned to Chislehurst I noticed that most of the German plane formations seemed to meet over our...

My Grandma's Memories

My grandma's house was picked, and so she remembers how there were lots of children, of different ages,...

Happy Times: An Evacuation to Weston-Super-Mare

Rosie and I travelled back to Paddington on our own, I don't remember much about Christmas at home, but...