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"Get That Line Straight Beryl!"

Mum met Dad during the war... When they were going out on a date, Mum would do her legs with gravy browning...

My Family in World War II

Dennis Payton was a farmer in Ely Cambridge. My great uncle John was 15 years old when he was ordered to...

Irene's Story

I lived in Walker near the ship yards were there was lots of air raids but not as many as london had......

THE DAY GRANNY HID UNDER THE TABLE

We lived in a detached house at the top of the hill in a new suburb of Croydon.Before the bombing started...

Coventry Memories

I was born in Coventry and my mum and dad lived there during some of the big air raids and they told...

Memories of Evacuation -Dorothy Brier

We were bombed in 1943 so I went to live in Alton, Hants with my husband's Aunt, a red cross nurse, who...

Bethnal Green Station Tragedy

Edward Lampey was Muriels Grandad, his brother was Frederick. Violet and Alice were Grandads daughters and...

My Working Experience in a Grocery Shop in Congleton, Cheshire

Hopkins of Congleton Museum on behalf of Mrs. Eileen Skerratt and has been added to the site with her...

A Wartime Christmas in Oxford

Mum and I lived with my grandparents during the war years when Dad was in the Army; so the household...

Celebrating My 21st Birthday in May 1945 by "B.K."

I was surprised to find one or two nearby friends and relations in the house, and the table laid with...

Sooty Times in Wallsend

My sister crided for her milk bottle and my mum returned to the house... I also rememeber a land mine...

My Family in WW2: In Occupied Holland

Surprise in a Suitcase

We went on the long journey to Rothesay in Scotland... Now Rothesay is a very hilly town....

**** Your Budgie

On the night of May 8th 1941 or2 the air raid siren had sounded and as usual my brother and I along...

Memories of an Evacuee

On Saturday September 2nd I moved to Ditton near Maidstone in Kent, with my sister, as evacuees... Mum was...

Memories

When he came, my daughter said to me: “Mummy, who is this man? The youngest daughters went schools...

A Wragby Family's Grief

Later that same year in September my second brother Charles died in a prisoner of war camp in Poland as the...

Gas Masks For All

My dad was too old to join the army so he joined the LDV, Local Defence Volunteers. His name was Billy and...

The War Stopped for Rabbits: Americans in Weymouth

My father owned three cottages which were bombed and no longer inhabitable. He was a master butcher and...

Venice, Lemons and Montgomerey's turn of the War

Included in these was a brass gondola, a hat that matched a red coat that we bought when he was on leave,...

Memories of the Second World War

At the outbreak of the Second World War I lived at 8 Cowper Close, Bexley Heath, Kent with Mum, Dad and...

A Strange Co-incidence

My grandfather,Henri Georges, was born in France in 1887 and came to England to work for Adalina Patti at...

The Aftermath

Bert was a short young man with rosy red apple cheeks and a cheeky George Formby grin... When the Japanese...

World War 2: How It Affected My Grandma

When World War 2 started on 3rd September 1939 my grandma was 14 years old....

Home Front in Kilmarnock

Jack Niven was an engineer and before that he was a footballer at Bonnyton Square – he played for...

Occupation after D-day — Malnutrition - Grandmother's death

Her 4 sisters in England lived well into their 90s and I am sure Gran would have done so too if she...