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Bombs I remember: Ilford in Essex

One day in August, I remember it very clearly because it was my birthday, the warning went and my mum and I...

Echos of the Mersey

Liverpool was bombed incessantly and Air-raids were a regular occurance... My Auntie Flo lost her home one...

MY EXPERIENCES IN A WARTIME ORPHANAGE AGE 5

I was too traumatised, by everything that happened to me to absorb the education offered and I came out of...

An Old Eastender's Boyhood Memories Part 4: Losing a friend

Even the shrapnel was easier to find as output exceeded demand - though, what we were secretly hoping to...

Evacuated to Winchester - Acorns and Cowpats

The countryside was for me a new and exciting set of sensations: nuts that grew on trees, acorns, pale...

Memories of Bridport in the War

When the incendiary bombs fell in Happy Island I seem to remember going along the road to a garage where...

My Childhood Memories in Bridport during the War`

When the incendiary bombs fell in Happy Island I seem to remember going along the road to a garage where...

Spies in Scotland

At one point Churchill was heard to declare that the Germans were to be made to believe that the second...

WW2 Memories of Ordsall Lane, Salford 6

We got it bad because we lived on Ordsall Lane, only ten minutes walk from Salford Docks, a main target....

A Russian Reindeer for King George VI

One of the odd things that we had to do was to transport a large reindeer which was a gift from the...

Childhood Experiences during World War Two in Norfolk

I lived in a very isolated cottage at Catfield in Norfolk. It was a local joke that the Americans survived...

Memories of Exeter Blitz and after

This happened to be the village hall in Pinhoe, an outlying area of Exeter not touched by bombs... Having...

Remembering a Walk to School in 1940: In New Southgate, North London

Old Hitler wasn't going to get us down so we sang 'Hang out your washing on the Seigfried...

My Wartime Memories of Egham

Next morning, it transpired that the glorious Luftwaffe had targeted an aircraft manufacturing factory at...

Early War Experiences in North London

At first there were only a few air raid alerts, but in September 1940 the bombing of London started... If...

Olwen's memories - September 1939

My mother and my aunt had joined Queen Anne's Nursing Volunteers attached to the 12th Cheshire Regiment...

Memories of Wartime Audlem

The Free French matelots stationed at Doddington Hall had an alleged taste for deer and of course our dear...

Book Written At School In 1941....Part One - Clothes Rationing

On June the first we were informed we have twenty-six margarine coupons to last us till December of 1941....

A Child's War at Home

My mother had two work in an enginiering works makeing parts for planes, so I had to go to my granparents...

Dad's Recollections of the Doodlebug

She told me that Dad was still in Fulham Hospital with a broken hip and cuts....

Evacuees who Ran Away!

I was only 81/2 when I was evacuated from my home in Liverpool, with my brother Gordon, to Llanfair Wales...

Memories of a Little Jewish Girl

As young as I was, I didn't know what a Jew was and I couldn't understand what it had to do with...

War - A Boy - London (The Anderson Shelter)

WAR - A BOY - LONDON THE ANDERSON SHELTER In the long back garden of our house in London we had an...

Bob's Story: Childhood Memories of Sale, Cheshire

My sister was born in 1930 and my brother in 1938 and we all lived on the Woodheys Estate between Sale and...

My Memories of Evacuation

Originally the school was sent to Chailey, but it was soon realised by the authorities that the village...

Barbara’s Memories 1942 — 1946 Fishergate School York

My sister Sheila was eight years older than me, and worked at Rowntree's Chocolate Factory in York,...