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John Winter's Wartime Experiences

As the Bristol bombings began, thousands of bombs were being dropped all around the house which was...

My memory of the War Days in Comber, Co. Down

There was another man too killed in that tram from Comber... There were soldiers from Staffordshire...

My Earliest Memories: Loss of a Brother and Doodlebugs

My Mum always said that my brother Raymond joined the Navy before he was old enough. After Mum and Dad got...

A Child in Bedford

He was also a Special Constable in the Bedford Police. I remember the garden turned turned over to the...

A Sign of Things to Come

Mum was a girl in the First World War so she knew all about rationing and shortages that were to come. Mum...

Bomb in the Hopfield

So next afternoon on our way back from school we went to have a look and found a couple of burnt-out...

Christmas 1940 and How We Discovered that the Real Santa Claus was really Uncle Dick.

Christmas Eve 1940 came upon us and it was decided that Dad would unchain the grating to the coal-cellar,...

Mary Meehan's War

I remember the orchard and the pigs and the hayloft, how we'd go to the cattle market and how we...

My Story about the War and the Horror

I went to St. Bridgets School in Limekiln Lane, and was evacuated, along with my brother Frank and all the...

A Family at War

As Dad pushed me and mum into the next room, the windows blew in. Dad and the neighbour threw me to the...

Wartime Oldham

I remember during the war — the blackout — no street lamps, all the traffic with only small...

Dodworth Wartime Memories

Sammy Epson was the greengrocer at the bottom of Dodworth. Woods glass company gave all the children in...

Dogfight over SW19

Soon after the declaration of war my elder sister, Betty and I were evacuated from our Wimbledon home to...

Widowed in Wartime

I lived with my Mum and Dad near Aylsham in Norfolk. For some reason I thought he meant there was a bird,...

Blue Feet?

My brother John, known to everybody as Polly, was a fighter pilot in the RAF. That's the blue dye out...

Mrs. Evans' Sandwiches

We children were tired and fractious so Mother opened our tin of sandwiches to placate us, Mrs Evans sat...

My War Memories

1 At my prep school in Devon in 1940, shortly after the surrender of France, when I was ten I remember...

When My Baby was Born

As the local hospital had been bombed by flying bombs I had to go to the hospital in Bromley by Bow, which...

Margaret Emerson Wartime Memories

Kerry, Southern Ireland, one of 17 children, 8 sisters and 8 brothers. I lived in London working as a...

Family War Memories

Dad said that he survived the army and the Prisoner of War camp because as the oldest child in his family...

Wartime Fish & Chips

Nellie Leedon told her story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. My...

The Sleeping Bags

The farmer arrived one day in his horse and cart, and proceeded to leave potato sacks in small piles, all...

Dirty Londoners in Norfolk by Terri Gleeson

He called the police and they came round with a bucket of water in the back of the car, and put the...

A Side of Bacon

I was told to go to Mr. Griffiths, who had a shop in Widemarsh Street, next to the Imperial pub, and pick...

Boyhood Memories

He was in the Pioneer Corps, then the Kings Yorkshire Light Infantry and then was moved into the Parachute...

The Day the Telegram Came

The worst thing was that we were so near the end of the War and my Mum had found us a house...