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Wartime Schooldays

At the start of the war my junior school, St. Silas, was taken over and turned into an ARP post for...

Eleanor's Story: By the Children of Strand Primary School

Eleanor Weir was 23 when World War 2 broke out. Eleanor Weir was 22 when World War Two started....

Jean Farrow -My Dad was an A.R.P. Warden

My Dad was the Engineer at Harrops Mill in Gawthorpe and when the war came he joined the A.R.P.. He got a...

A Child Living Through the War: Shella Thrush

Mrs. H. Thrush of Bridgefield Place, Hunslet, has four sons serving in the Middle East, a daughter,...

Wartime Childhood memories.

My Father kept the butchers shop and because of poor health did not pass his medical but became Chief...

Reunited - Ukrainian Brothers Separated by War

I was the eldest of 4 brothers: there was Joseph, Nicholas, Semko and myself. I met up with my brothers...

A child's view of WW II

As a very young child, in a village near Chelmsford, my recollections of the war is imperfect, but vivid......

A Real Cockney Remembers [M.Daniels]

We arrived back in London at Kings Cross station just as it was being bombed. My husband said, "Hello...

The Night of the Coventry Raid as felt by My Family in Birmingham

My mother and father Alfred and Edith Rubini were living at 31, Hampton rd, Erdington, Birmingham. during...

Growing up in City Road, London, and Mixed Experiences of Evacuation by Shirley Nightingale

The last straw We were evacuated to Wales first, me, my older sister, my mum and my aunt. The best...

Living with the Germans. The Commandant's dog

And then one day I was just playing by the lake there, with the dog, and this German, big German car came...

Living under occupation - entertainment

There was the cinema, and there was films there with either German subtitles or English subtitles,...

Mrs M Hirst-A child during the war

One of the doodle bugs came over Meltham as they were aiming for David Browns... When I think back to...

Working in a Male Dominated World

As we were a big family we lived in the old station master's house — a big and cold house —...

JOAN'S WAR

The Midland Hotel on the promenade at Morecambe was taken over as a hospital for the wounded soldiers,...

Great Baddow Village in Wartime

Rosemary Hill - Explosions in Great Baddow....

Wartime Down the Lane

When I ran indoors I was quite surprised to find granny crying, she said "I had three in the first lot...

The War Years 6 - VE day in Aldridge

On VE day, Victory in Europe, there were huge bonfires and it was while burning rubbish from the rabbit...

Homecoming

I was born on the 20th of November 1939 and lived in a 2 up 2 down end of terrace house with...

And I was in the Brownies - Part 5

I had spent the war years playing with my friends and living with a loving family.I hadn't really...

Hitler on the Roof

Ireland's Corner, we went to in Saintfield Road — I can remember the name of it. Ireland's...

Eileen's story

Two years later I met an RAF navigator officer called Lewis Harding.He was also known as "Curly...

Evacuated to Limpsfield

My sister Helena was at the head of our line and much to my amazement, when we came to the end, she...

Book Written At School 1941......Part Four - New Clothes From Old

They can be cleaned by the simple method of washing, whereas kid and nappa gloves must be sent away must be...

Surviving the War in Hastings, East Sussex

My mother was 6 weeks off having my brother, and we stumbled over rubble home - which was probably half a...

Lucky To Be Alive At 92 Years Old

Thankfully my dear wife is now recovering. so nowadays, I get the shopping without complaint and giving a...