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Evacuation

Fortunately we all had a chance to go or stay at home with our parents, my sister Edna and my younger...

Evacuation No.2 From 1 Danes Place, Bow, London

I do not remember the earlier years of the War but my parents have told me that in late 1939 my mother,...

An Old Eastender's Boyhood Memories Part 5: Evacuated again 1941

Later that evening we followed the Taplins out from the warmth of their kitchen, through to the scullery,...

Growing Up during War in Buxton, Derbyshire

As Buxton, Derbyshire was hilly and the roads had little traffic, it was almost as fast and risky as...

Liverpool to London and badk - Wartime Travels

Ronnie was missing over Germany but there were still parties every night at my Liverpool grandparents....

Snippets of WW2: Childhood Memories in Surrey

My mum lived with her Mum,Dad, younger sister Patricia and baby brother John.She remembers always having to...

Evacuees

Notice was given around the town - Ilfracombe - that evacuated children from London would be coming and...

Mrs. Barraclough - Wartime memories

I left school at 14, and in my first job I worked with a very nice lady who had a son in...

From Shrapnel to Moles: A Evacuation story

I went to Avonmouth Junior School and after a short period of time, Avonmouth began to receive heavy...

Doodlebug Spotting

Over the back fence of our garden the fields of Kent stretched away into the distance with only the...

Fun in the Country and a New Family in Wales by Louisa Small (nee Kingsbury)

We stayed there until Dunkirk 1940 we could see the soldiers coming into Ashford and after that we were all...

A Wartime Examination

In the summer of 1940 the daylight raids started and by September the Battle of Britain was in full swing...

Wales: Where I Sheltered from the War

Mother was born in Bow in the East End of London; my Father was born in Deptford; and I too, was born...

Hot Hair and a V1 Near Miss

The area around had been flattened and a park bench, one of the type with cast iron uprights and wooden...

Life for Leila in the War.

Because Leila had a small chicken farm and her auntie had a pig farm, Leila was one of the lucky people...

Life as an Evacuee in Nelson by Jean Warhurst (nee Schuster)

"In September 1940 I started at Manchester Central High School for Girls, commonly called Whitworth...

Vincent Ollier- Vivid Childhood Memories.

Vincent Ollier- Vivid Childhood Memories....

A Story of Air Training

During 1944, whilst on the seafront above the Children's Playground, I witnessed the wing to wing...

A Child in Wartime London

The guns were because we were surrounded by aircraft factories and nearby Hendon Airfield. As my parents...

Into a Safe Area

We were conveyed by bus to Grange Park School which was used as a Rest Centre, we were fed and all the...

West-Country Wartime Childhood: Morphine, Salvaging and Chilblains

Rations were sparse, but Mum kept hens, known as 'the old ladies', so there were occasional eggs....

Recollections of wartime: A Country Cottage in Essex

My father located a country cottage for rent and we moved into it in early 1940, Not the idyllic country...

Our Family History of Evacuation and Finding New Homes in Lancashire by Doreen Lamb

During the blitz we moved out of London to a family holiday bungalow at Laindon in Essex, now part of...

Wartime in London and Evacuation

When the bombing began in earnest my mother, sister and I went to the local public shelter which was in the...

The changing face of Childhood: Evacuated to Wales

My Uncle was a Carpenter in a Pit and made wooden toys for me with the left-over bits of wood and Auntie...

Friends and Neighbours in the Belfast Blitz

When we came back to the house the warden came and told us to take any small valuables with us as there...