Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
At least four or five of my family joined the Jamaican army and two went into to the RAF. I remember my...
Locking the door of our flat, and just in the clothes we were wearing, my mother grabbed her handbag, my...
On the night of 19/20 May 1942 at about 12:30 AM, My Father, Mother and younger Brotherand myself were in...
We were swimming in the canal when the Spitfire tried to land in the field alongside us. Do not forget that...
Until that time my aunt had been employed in the Town Transport office for a Mr Bartholomew whom she had...
He also kept chickens and stored eggs in isinglass for use when the hens were not laying. I also remember...
When my Father came home, and did what he should do, i.e. carry on with family life as he did in the...
So my mother decided that in future we would remain in the hall and see the film through. At this, my...
There were two air raid shelters built in our street in Glasgow, exactly 100 yards apart from each other -...
I started running home as fast as I could and ran into 2 girls about 18 years old who had been visiting...
When Chamberlain allowed the Germans into Czechoslovakia, they began to clear the Sudetenland. My...
I lived in a tenement building in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow. -- Read all Tommy Mac's edited...
I lived in a tenement building in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow. -- Read all Tommy Mac's edited...
Ronnie ket trying to tell Mum he couldn't get his Wellingtons on... We rushed down the stairs, we lived...
Mother and my uncle and aunt who lived with us grew lots of veg in the garden. I've still got a photo...
I lived in Northenden Manchester the aeroplanes that came over always made for Trafford Park and Hulme and...
The Bombing of Looe island. During the raid either a landmine or a bomb was dropped on Looe Island because...
One evening my father said that there were unexploded bombs in Summerfield Park. but made no other comment....
The air siren sounded and my granmother told me to come in out of the garden, I said I was all right...
My mum and her friend used to always be knitting socks, balaclavas, operation socks, gloves, scarves - all...
We lived in West London, and it never seemed to be worthwhile to go to the shelter during raids, so I slept...
I was 9 living in Dyke Road, Folkestone and coming up from the harbour in 1942 near the railway. It was a...
A Crash Landing in a Beaconsfield Street. Before me,for what seemed like a long length of time but could...
My teacher at the time noticed my unkempt, matted hair, and wrote to my mother who, although very poor...
I was also lowered from my granny's first floor window this was more difficult as her bedroom had a...
Early in 1940, when I was about 7-1/2 yrs old, my parents decided to send me to USA to stay with one...
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