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War in the East Riding

Melbourne was a small village, about 250 people, my grandparents found us a small cottage, no water or...

The Boys Club Movement

The club conformed to the principles and aims of the National Association of Boys’ Clubs, whose...

Schoolboy in Rushden

I remember lying in bed in Rushden hearing the bombers going over to Coventry and we heard them coming back...

Schoolboy Memories Part 2

There were rather a lot of them, many were forced into the German army and a fairly liberal interpretation...

From Hull Evacuated to Burton-on-Trent

My brother and I were going to be evacuated to Canada to a relation there, but just before we were due to...

Barnsley was Our Saviour

My mother, who had left her home town of Barnsley to work in London at 16, had decided to bring her young...

Liverpool Evacuee: Evacuated to Bangor in Wales

Once in Bangor, my brother Ronald, a friend and I were transported with all the others to a local school...

Mixed Blessings

We both ended up with nits and so did all our friends, mum was so tired and dad was in the army...

Do You Remember, Bradford Air-Raid May 1941

I had always assumed the aircraft was a single-seater fighter like the Messerschmitt ME 109, as my Father...

Life in Weymouth: The ARP, First Bombs, Shelters, Rationing

First bombs dropped on Portland — at the outbreak of war we were picnicking in a lay-by overlooking...

Evacuation to Colne: For Six Siblings

There were so many children who had never been away from home before that Colne might have well been the...

My Mum's Story: Childhood Memories of Northolt

Factories were being turned over to making munitions and day nurseries were opened to take any children...

My Memories as a Child in the Second World War

He was stationed at Blackpool and I remember going with my Mum to stay there for a few days before he went...

The Parachutist

I was born in 1935 and during WW2 I lived with my parents and younger brother in the village of Burpham,...

My Childhood in Islington and Wood Green during War

My father ran a motor and cats meat business, we lived in New North Road and the shop waas in Queensbury...

Housing Evacuees in Wymondham

My husband had picked a 13 year old girl, Jean, and her 7 year old brother , Tony, to live next door...

Recollections of Colin Metcalfe, Part 1 : the Phoney War and the Canadians

My Uncle and Aunt had no children, and I had one older sister, Jean. My maternal grandparents, both in...

A Child's Life in London

His ship, HMS Phoebe, had been torpedoed off Cape Noir in French West Africa and repaired in New York. The...

My Liverpool's Still Here

However, we chose to return to our home in Liverpool before the end of the war, unbeknownst to us; Field...

The Wartime Memoirs of a Teenager

We now began to feel the meaning of Hitler's threats regarding his rantings about his secret weapons as...

Evacuation to Shropshire

My cousins and I, with a group of other children, eventually arrived at a place in the country which was...

Evacuee

Nearly every night during the bombing, we were pulled from our beds to go down to the Anderson Shelter that...

Bruno Dominico de Grussa

In the summer holiday which followed, Bruno and I worked in partnership at the nearby Mason's Farm. On...

Air Raid on Camberwell, London, 16 April 1941

"Once in the shelter we sat down but we found that all the water had been cut off except in the shelter...

Memories of a Small Child during World War Two: Eastham to Accrington

She came to visit me once, and I begged her to take me back to London with her. During air-raids, he...

When I was in the War: An Evacuee in Devon

I was 11years of age, a London evacuee, billeted in a small village in south Devon and was making my way to...