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A Battle of Britain Incident

We boys had silhouette pictures of the various planes and could also tell from the engine noise whether the...

Tale of a Telegraph Lad

At the outbreak of the war in 1939 I was a 14 year old telegraph messenger at the Post Office on Pride...

A Child's War

Dad was very upset as he had worked in London for the best part of the war shoring up bomb damaged...

Bill Henderson's War

Their targets were the German planes that used to come over to bomb John Brown's shipyards and the oil...

Memories of World War Two and Evacuation to Teignmouth, Devon

I was eight years old when the war started and, living in Plymouth, a Dockyard town, we were destined to be...

Childhood memories

The Nuttgens and Fosters And Eric Gill too We played with their children In orchards and farmyards. To...

Preparing for War - A Lad Remembers

Dad became Station Officer at High Road Leyton. Uncle was at Queens Road, Leytonstone until about 1942 when...

When Dad was in the Jamaica Home Guard

The girls from Jamaica got more schooling than the boys at this time... So it was left to the younger boys...

Looking For a Home

Mum sent a telegram to Dad who had returned from France and was now based at a large army camp that was...

The Shelter

My dad, who was in the territorial army, was on home leave, when on the night of 14th March, 1941, the air...

Derby Smoke Screens

I think that these, plus the fact that Derby was in a hollow, together with the normal blackout of all...

Living with the Horrors of War

My auntie was crying as she dreaded the bombs were hitting Linton as the sky was lit up in that...

Sweet Memories

3rd September 1939; I was seven years of age, and to be evacuated with my thirteen year old sister; Joan to...

An Incendiary Attack Grove Lane

My Father, Henry Roland Fleming, who had served in The Royal Engineers during the Great War, having...

Making the Most of Life

I bought a pair of buckskin shoes and died them, but ruined my tweed skirt and my petticoat in the process...

The Anderson Evacuees

So, in September of 1939 all the evacuees from Brighton Road School in Bensham, Gateshead, boarded the...

Evacuation Memories of the Sweeney's

My brother Danny and my sister Pat moved back to London shortly after that. Once the bombing had ended, the...

Childhood Wartime Memories

After the terrific pounding that Liverpool and Bootle endured in May 1941 from enemy bombers, we, as a...

In 1939 I Was a Happy Child: Effects of the Bombing in London, and Some Near Misses

Then the air raids started and my younger sister, Mum and I, used to go into our neighbour's house...

Family at War

One Sunday morning in November 1940 2 bombs dropped on Tolworth Hospital - my brother and I were asleep and...

Growing up in Stoneleigh

Several houses around us were bombed and I can remember noticing how overgrown the gardens became... I...

The Blitz

She made the decision that we should go to Scotland, to her people, as we had lost our home in London......

Animal's Galore - An Evacuees Story

I was at home for a little while and then went with another lot of evacuees to Somerset. The Billeting...

The Gold Stars

Riding on the school bus home during the week, my friends and I watched gold and silver stars going up in...

Noise, Noise, Noise!: Childhood memories in Watford

Watford was not a specific target for bombs but we received our fair share during the early part of the war...

Rural Contrasts

During the phoney war, we were all evacuated to Castle Carig in Somerset with many other children who were...