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My War Time Childhood

She said his name was Vincent George and I argued with her saying 'His name is Christopher'....

Up the North Sea on a Pleasure Boat - Gravesend's War

We left home very early on Saturday Sept.2nd and boarded a pleasure steamer called 鈥楾he Royal...

Holmewood:Air Raids, Bombs and Rationing.

Alan and his family were living on Hardwick Street in Holmewood and, in common with many people across...

My Mothers' Experience of World War II - Memories of a Young Girl

My eldest sister, Doreen, was working in a factory making tins and I went to work at Carr's Biscuit...

The Northamptonshire Poacher

This was when Dad became a poacher. On the next set the wind dropped and dad said 鈥渨e'll catch no...

Beryls Story

Beryl's College was evacuated to Birmingham and also many parents sent their children to the Lake...

A London Childhood and Devon Evacuation

We left from a London station and before we left, my mum said to me, 鈥楳ake sure you look after your...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Surrey

Rationed balancer meal was obtained from the Ministry of Food office in Millmead, Guildford. The Ministry...

Call Up Papers

At times I would be out and about when the raid started and often joined the spectators on the Thames...

Memoirs of a Young Girl: In Sale, Lancashire

Even the Town Hall in Sale was badly damaged in a bombing raid - I well remember that night, in the...

War Baby in Belfast

I was particularly drawn to the story of a girl called Helen who became a Wren and worked a teleprinter and...

A View of the War from Cornwall - part 2

TRAVEL Journeys from Cornwall to Devon and Somerset were by train via, of necessity, Plymouth North Road...

Memories of Two Sisters and a Husband

We did not possess many toys, but we had an Aunt Edie, who was a Salvation Army officer in Guernsey... When...

Formative Years in Johnstone, near Clydbebank, during War

Though only three years old at the out break of the war, I have still some set memories of the aura of...

Memories of Holmewood, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Lucy and Rose's parents owned the chip shop in Holmewood; their sales were boosted greatly by the...

Rationing and the Black Market

By registering with him to supply us with eggs, he could exchange our egg coupons for chicken meal at...

N Ireland rationing from a Southerner's Perspective

But you see, we were in Northern Ireland and whilst we were rationed in the same way they were rationed in...

Seen Through the Eyes of a Teenager in World War 2: In Dundee

The sewing teacher was not amused: "What are you doing, girl?" she asked, "Get wool and knit...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh in Essex: Home Life

Occasionally we had a chicken dinner and eggs could be swapped for other commodities that were in short...

Snapshots 3

The material came from one of the weekly jumble sales ; some old wool coats, in different colours not too...

Moving From War-Torn Portsmouth to Surrey

My mother must have felt it strange leaving Portsmouth, with all the " mod cons" - running water,...

Make It Stretch

Then came the day when the Japanese shelled Newcastle harbour from their miniature submarines,, after doing...

Letter to My Grandson Ben From Granny Eileen Crane.

I arranged to meet Greataunt Min in Oxford Street to buy material, but that night Hitler decided to bomb...

A Young Wife鈥檚 Memory of Barkingside

I was lucky to have a 鈥渨hite鈥� wedding and I queued at John Lewis鈥� store from 6.30am for...

Memories of Rickmansworth

I remember huge silver barrage balloons, close to us we went to London on the Metropolitan Railway... I...

Growing Up in East London During World War 2

And the sticky tape stopped the windows from shattering with the bomb blast. Later in the day, my mum found...