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Growing up during the War

My Gran and Uncle came from Hull as the bombing was bad but after one night they went back home as it...

Getting Married During the War and Giving Birth During the Air Raids! by Eva Edwards

The story of the wedding cake My mother used to go to markets all around to get things. When we ate the...

The War Years 5 - Planes

There was a gun battery on Barr Beacon Hill and Aldridge airfield was in use with fighters, spitfires and...

Family at War

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

People I Remember in the War

The School was quickly swollen with extra pupils — private evacuees sent to Bridport to stay...

The Mournes and Me: Bridie's Story

Then they took over St. Mary's Hall and the Institute, and they turned St. Mary's into a kitchen,...

A Family That Lived Through the War

Bernard my eldest brother was a Centre Lathe Operator who started with Jeffrey Diamond, manufacturers of...

A QUESTION OF TIME

Things were quiet most of the time where we lived, but one night a bomb dropped into the back garden of a...

Band of Brothers - Service Records of Ten Brothers

FRED: Joined the Kings Royal Irish Hussars in 1933-served in the U.K, and Egypt discharged to the Reserves...

A Farming Wartime at Hemingstone, Suffolk.

A Farming Wartime at Hemingstone, Suffolk. I lived at Hemingstone, at the lower part of a village north of...

Wartime Memories

I lived in Chislehurst on the outskirts of London during the war. We lived around the area where the enemy...

Kitty's War

My husband, Billy, was a musician with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, but in 1940, he was "released"...

Lucky Lads

My brother Raymond worked as part of a bomb disposal squad, a brave team who defused more than 30 bombs....

Evacuation of a Family to Bromsgrove

Sometimes we had lovely fresh lardy cake when Uncle George was able to bring some home from the bakery...

My Mother's War.

We were briefly evacuated - staying for a while in a house at the side of Lancaster Castle, and watching...

Through the Eyes of a Teenager WW2 Peoples War

Landmines were dropped, the whole cottage shook and curtains billowed out as I stood at the top of the...

A Change of Residence

Life began to change.Barnard Castle was a garrison town and the young conscripts were marched through on...

War Time Memories of a Schoolgirl

Plots of land were taken over to grow vegetables, although the Merchant Navy saw to it that we had food......

The War Years 3 - Waste not want not

The cobbler was also a expert in repairing any leather items - belts, bags, gloves and even the odd burst...

A Wartime Childhood in Southampton

As this aunt lived in central Poole very near to the gasworks, and bombs were soon dropped in this...

Lovers and Losers

Leaving the chip shop I cycled up to the nearby porch of St. James's church to enjoy my meal. The...

Hop Picking in The War

The Johnson family traipsed their way to East Croydon station for the annual hop picking harvest. Then a...

Farm life 1940/41

We were living in Hull in 1940 and my grandparents had promised to look after my mother, my brother Ted and...

Growing Up During the Second World War

My name is Stella Cowling nee Leather; I was born in Blackpool 1935 & had my first hint of the war to...

A Family's war-time tragedy

My family's name is Swan and my bad, Mum, sister Margaret and myself lived in Merton Park Surrey... My...

From my Bedroom Window (1941), a Raid in Tadworth, Surrey

Dad says this is the best place for us, because the larder window has no glass and the ceiling is the...