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Village War Recollections

While on the bus I saw a low flying aircraft dropping a bomb which bounced near the ruins in Cowdray Park...

My War Effort as a Child (K.Lamb)

An American B17 bomber also crashed on a chicken farm. There were lots of opportunities for dances, most of...

Childhood Memories

He didn't come home often but one night, my Mum got a knock at the door, and not wanting to open the...

The Blitz

On the night of May 9/10, 1941 I went to bed in the block of council flats at 60 Halton Road, Islington......

Childhood Memories

Eventually rations books with coupons for obtaining food were issued and you registered with a grocer or...

The Evacuees

Our father was working in England, as at this time there was no work for Catholics in Northern Ireland......

Narrow Escape

However a friend, who I called Auntie Nora, was going to the Lake District for a break and offered to take...

A Child's Memories of World War 2: Living in Manchester

My father's sister lived in Stockport and said that as she looked up Wellington Road towards Manchester...

An Evacuee's Tale

Apart from the tiny lady dressed in black with a lacy mantilla over her white hair, there was the tall...

A Child Growing Up In Rural Norfolk

During World War II I lived with my parents, older sister and younger brother in a small village called...

Memories of an Eight-year Old during WW2: Evacuated from Battersea to Westbury

She said "Salvation Army" - so when asked I proudly announced Salvation Army....

The Beginning

When, on September 9th 1939, Neville Chamberlain announced that we were at war with Germany, I was in an...

Late Entry Evacuee

Sometimes dinner money would be spent at the bakers. For a long time we only attended school in the...

Watson Family Military Service

My father, John Watson was born in Leek signed onto The Royal Marines, under age, during World War 1. The...

A Manchester Police Runner

This didn't seem to me to be a sensible use of time and effort at a period of extreme crisis in the...

Castledawson Boy(1939-1945)

I was 8 years old when WW2 commenced and lived in a quiet little village in South Derry called...

Alan's War

At the age of 12 years I lived with an Aunt Mrs. Alice Buss at 508, Commercial Road, Portsmouth... We were...

In the begining

I was a 鈥淟ifeboy鈥� a member of the junior branch of the 鈥淏oys Brigade鈥� an...

War Memories of North Shields

I was evacuated to Long Framligton with my mother, her sister, her child and my younger brother. I used to...

A Very Young Evacuee

My mum was moved from Portsmouth to Haselmere for my birth and, in talking to visitors to the Nothe Fort,...

Memories of My War

During the school holidays, Dad sometimes took me to work with him, usually repairing shattered roofs and...

WW2 Fire Fury: My Childhood in Kent

During the war, weekday local dances were held in the town at the Carmel Hall and Lloyds Clubhouses at...

Growing up in Liverpool

The day war broke out, as a nine-year-old in Liverpool, I became an evacuee along with my brother and...

Evacuee in Gortin, Co. Tyrone

I was evacuated to Gortin: we were collected at Mountcollyer School and travelled by train to Omagh - a...

Welcome to the World

The darkened room was in fact the living room of our house in Droylesden, Manchester. The house was not...

Doodlebug and Disinfectant

I watched the doodlebug continue in the direction of the River Medway and The City of Rochester until I...