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It was bedlam!

I remember riding round Hamilton Square on the running board of a taxi and then we all rushed down to the...

Such a lovely place, but not during the war

My husband's name was John Bailey and he was in the R.A.F. He was based at RAF Cranwell, so I lived...

Marsh's Parents with the Evacuees

Marsh lived in Withington, and his parents, John and Sissy Pritchard took in evacuees at the beginning of...

Leaving School - Bevin Boys

Ernest Bevin the Minister of Labour created the Bevin Boys....

Dorothy Mary Ascroft is banned from crossing the clippie mat

In 1941 I was three years of age and living with my brothers Terry and Derek and sister Rita with our...

A Fireman’s family from Guernsey travel to Wrexham

Ronald John Le Moignan Videotape of interview with Lynne Ashton transcribed by J David 23/9/05. My name is...

Father

I grew up in a loving family with a great Dad and Mum etc., I had a Grandfather who was very special...

Marsh's Evacuees

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

A Christmas Telegram

This is a telegram sent from my Father, Philip Gallop, to my mother, Audrey Brown, before they were...

A Childs Perspective of growing up in World War 2

The Irish had ration books just like the British, they had rations on books, butter, sugar, tea were all...

At home in the war

So, I worked in the nearest munitions factory in Market Harborough... Grace, one of my sisters was at home,...

Evacuation friendships

I stayed with the Parkinson family and their son, Billy, worked at the wagon works. My school-friend John...

Unsung Efforts

My parents’ generation had suffered the horrors of the 1st World War — my father fought in the...

Evacuees on the farm

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Life in the Miner's Arms

I lived in a pub, The Miner's Arms in Hurst Hill, Sedgley, with my parents and brothers and sister......

A lost father

The submarine didn't have the right code signals and they were torpedoed by a British ship, HMS Triton,...

A Miner's Wife, Fife

I mind the bombs coming over tae bomb Glesca. We used to stand in the garden and see the bombs going...

Mrs Flo Conley's War

I was twenty six when the War started and I lived with my parents in law in Pinehurst Avenue in Anfield in...

Coming Home

He fought in North Africa and was taken prisoner by the Germans outside Tobruk and transfered into Italian...

Farming Life

My grandparents had wheat and oats — arable farming. My uncle delivered milk from his diary farm with...

The Chauffer's Tale

One of the perks was that I held the keys to the requisioned car and the garage. On one...

D-DAY PREPARATION - invasion fleet, Don Koos

His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. My...

Feeling safe and secure

If we didn't have to go down the shelter, we'd all sit on my eldest brother's bed and gather. I...

the organ

My grandfather Kennedy Bott due to some hesitation during the evacuation remained in the island of Guernsey...

I WAS FIVE YEARS OLD

We had an indoor shelter and when a raid started Mum used to come into the bedroom and say “ put your...

1939 Studebaker car

The car was seen around Sidcup until 1950, when Mjr Tubby had a stroke, he never left the house. I met him...