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At School in Wartime

Anyone who had a garden dug up their flower beds and lawns in order to grow as much as possible for their...

A Story of Two Young Children

On 8 Aug 1940 at thirteen he was evacuated to Canada with his Mother and sister and brother to stay with...

Childhood memories of wartime Salford and the Manchester Blitz by Gordon Graham

One night during the Manchester blitz my friend and his family were sheltering there when his sister and...

Toddler's Tale: The Manchester Blitz

On another occasion he went for a pint of beer with my grandfather to a local pub and as they walked home...

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D-Day: Memories from the Home Front in Trowbridge

Trowbridge was one of those towns completely taken over by the military during the war and the area where I...

Salisbury 1940 to D-Day

We believed that the Germans used Salisbury Cathedral to fix their position, before heading to the real...

Aberdeen Memories

She lived with my grandparents, her brother and sister in a tenement style flat 3 or 4 stories up at 285...

Childhood Separation

The sinking of a large ship carrying children to Canada by a German submarine and further such passages...

One of the Many: An Apprentice Plumber in Birmingham

I was born in Walsall West Midlands I was 14 years old when WW2 was declared, I can recall vividly...

Schoolboy Recollections of WW2

Approach the bomb on your stomach and lie flat while you counted up to 50 slowly — the Germans placed...

My First Hop-Picking

I attended school, Pluckley Church of England,The milkman also used to come along on a tricycle, he had...

From a Guttersnipe to a Country Bumpkin

The guttersnipe had turned into a country bumpkin....

A Kid in the Balham Blitz

We were evacuated twice, each time accompanied by my mother, the first occasion to one of the lodges at...

Diary of the War for 1944

As well as recording details of all the events as they unfolded across Europe, John's family obviously...

WW2 - A SCHOOLBOY EVACUEE'S EXPERIENCE

As German air raids intensified against the SE of England, the area soon became known as 'bomb...

Evacuation Memories: Manchester to Blackpool

"I came to Blackpool with the evacuees because my father, being employed by Manchester Corporation, had...

A Child in Walton on the Hill

David Hall was born in 1934 and lived at Walton on the Hill. The one bomb we had a Walton on the...

Mary Beeson's Memories of the Second World War

I was nine years old when the War started and my Mum was in bed having just had my youngest sister the...

U X B (unexploded bomb)

Two nights before they exploded the bomb, mum went to feed the chickens she got caught by a policeman. On...

First Air Raid Siren

My sister's mother-in-law called it the "sirene" which we always laughed about later... He knew...

Sunderland during the war

Gordon wasn't evacuated, although many children from Sunderland were. Although many of Gordon's...

School Evacuees

They chose the children they fancied, gave addresses to the billeting officer. Boys were not wanted but as...

Fruit Picking in Scotland

During Assembly one day, the Headmistress told us that pupils from all over Scotland were being recruited...

Caught by the Braces

My grandfather, his beautiful accent from the hills of Perthshire still true after 50 years in the...

Village Playmates: A German Child in Kent

The little German girl took one bite of her sandwich and spat it out!.. She couldn't pronounce the word...

The Sadness of War: Childhood Memories of Plymouth

On one night in particular, with my brother and I sharing the same double bed, My dad rushed into our...

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