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Holes

Daddy was on fire watch duty, a dangerous duty which involved standing on the roof of the factory where he...

A Little Girl's War: Gas Masks, ITMA, Manchester Blitz, Loss of Home and Father

A Little Girl's War: Gas Masks, ITMA, Manchester Blitz, Loss of Home and Father. My father was at the...

An 11 Year Old Londoner's Memories.

When we came out the garden was covered in burnt paper - Samuel Jones paper factory was round the corner...

Jean Bradley- My Memories

We didn't have many actual bombings, but we had quite a lot of red alerts,. At Bolton Abbey Hall we had...

Dancing for Victory

Before the war there were a lot of us from Blenheim Road at dancing school and one girl in particular,...

MEMORIES OF BUNWELL SCHOOL

One Christmas the American Airmen invited the children from Bunwell School to their Old Buckenham Base....

Childhood as an Evacuee in Cheshire

I was evacuated to Grappenhall when I was 7 years old, because both my grandparents were ill and my Mother...

Fortunate Film Night

The family - my mother, younger brother Roger and myself - joined him, and in 1942 we found accommodation...

Recollections

Early in 1943 I was looking out of the window at a small aircraft which was being fired at by anti-aircraft...

Sand Dunes

The beach probably about a mile in length was bounded by huge sand dunes. This didn't prevent a bunch...

Bill's War

I was seven when the war started and many things stand out in my mind, such as standing in our back garden...

My Memories of the Sheffield Blitz

I had Mam and Dad, four sisters and three brothers, so there was quite a tribe of us... We were there 18...

Growing Up in the War Years

Dad was working during the day, so it was left to Mum and I to go to the assistance office in Rushey...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences part 7 - The flying bombs

I saw the results of a Flying Bomb on the cottages in Bromley Road opposite what was then Perry's...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences part 7 - The flying bombs

I saw the results of a Flying Bomb on the cottages in Bromley Road opposite what was then Perry's...

Plymouth - One memory that I have of World War II

I was born in 1935 in a flat above the Seymour Laundry in Cromwell Road, Plymouth, but moved from there in...

A Mother's Pride

In 1939, myself, one brother and two sisters were evaquated, because of the war, from Bow, in London, to...

Was I the Youngest Person in the RAF? From Stockwell to Chigwell

The Doctor said that my Mum should be in a safer place and contacted my Dad, who was at that time stationed...

Why? (A Tragedy in Wartime Wick)

There were four boys Kenny MacGregor, Bruce Flett, Eric Blackstock and my brother John Wares. A memorial is...

Night Light

As the bombing got worse,Grandad built bunks for us all in the cellar of the old Edwardian house and every...

Memories from Devon and London

When war began the family went to Raintree in Essex, but then they moved back to London, and then again to...

Memories of life in Brixham and Coventry during the War

Memories of life in Brixham and Coventry during the War...

A Wartime Childhood in Coventry

By modern standards I had a dangerous childhood, finding and examining dead incendiary bombs and collecting...

Childhood Memories in Bolton

I was 3 when the war started and one of my first memories was that of going with mum and dad to...

Recolections of the Second World War part 6

Not long before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into the war, the British navy had...

Air Raids in Falmouth

My family consisted of my father Jack, my mother Hilda, my brother Roy, and my sisters, Maud, Evelyn and...