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Bombs over Chorley

Walking along Westhoughton Rd Adlington by the bottom of Rawlinson Road, near the then knitting factory...

Italian Prisoners and the American Army

At some point a prisoner of war camp was established there for Italian prisoners, who were sent out to work...

The Volunteer

My young mind dwelt on the likely options and their outcome - pretty nurses featured strongly, as did...

Manchester children evacuated to Poynton, Cheshire by Peter Heaton

No doubt registers were called and a large group made teir way to the local railway station named Belle Vue...

Manchester Children Evacuated to Uttoxeter in 1939 by Alan Lambert

Winnie and Ida boarded the train believing they were just going for a day out. On arrival at Uttoxeter, Mr...

Evacuees

After arriving in Chipping Norton, we went into a big hall, and we were allotted out to prospective foster...

Lucky bus stop.

Every week we used to leave Gran's house at twenty-to-nine to walk down into Neath to get the 9.00pm...

When the Japs came to Vizag, India

In 1941 the Japs declared war on the USA and as Vizag was a natural harbour, preparations were put in place...

My Childhood in Portsmouth

My father, Sydney George Whitefield, had a coal business in Portsmouth, the family business. One night this...

The Case Of The Disappearing Oven

So the meat and the oven had blown up. Part of the oven door was found on the roof of Sadler's Wells,...

Wartime schoolboy:In Midhurst

Initially we had a girls' school from London, Lady Margarets, evacuated on us... Later on the buzz...

Evacuation to Pentewan

I arrived in Pentewan in October 1940 when I was 8 years old, with my mother, brother Ron(11) and sister...

Toys Games and Occupations

My uncles used to make me toys like dolls houses, monkeys or clown acrobats that swung between two sticks...

Suffer The Little Children

She and her younger sister Margaret were among those children evacuated to the seaside town of Walton on...

The Story of an Evacuee

In the meantime I had passed the 'scholarship' for the Southen High School for Girls, which had...

Wartime Memories

We also had an older brother, he was 17 and rushed off to join up, but was sent home 'until he was...

Evacuees in Wales

The daughters find work, as does Mrs Penney, so Grandmother takes care of the home... She stays to marry...

Through Toddler's Eyes

Radio programmes such as Kitchen Front, Elsie & Doris Waters as Gert & Daisy, exhorted housewives...

Evacuation from Guernsey

I was born in Jersey, 69 years ago, and around 1938 or so my parents and myself moved to Guernsey in search...

Whacker's son was a Lancaster pilot

I believe that Mr Richardson told me that the son had visited Spain in the war and had met up with German...

Not Too Old To Knit

When Alderman H. Collar, Mayor of Heston and Isleworth in 1939 made an appeal to the burgesses to knit...

Growing up in The War

After the first 6 months my brother and I returned home On returning home to Prenton, the air-raids started...

My War: A Child Living Near an Airfield

Born in 1937 l was just two years old when it all began for me, l lived just 4 miles away from...

A Child's Recollections

It was whilst we were living there that we heard that Dad was going to be with the British Expeditionary...

A Child's War

There were Italian POWs at Cockley Cley, who made snake rings and bracelets for the kids. We had two...

'A Banana A Day Will Keep Hitler Away'

When we were sent to the shop before the war we were able to take a torch with us to see our...