In September 1939, when World War Two began, I was evacuated with my sister, who was eleven, to St. Albans,...
The girls from Pitmans wnated to send us to Bedford, my sister did not want to go. When my sister came home...
My dad was stationed near Derby with the army so my mum came there to live and got a job working on...
My aunt and her daughter who lived in Fulham moved to Nottingham when the bombing got bad in London....
At the age of 9 when war was declared I lived in Knightsbridge Barracks, London with my mother and sister,....
Mrs Roberts our neghbour was a Diabetic so she gave her sugar coupons to Mum in exchange for fresh eggs...
The convent of Notre Dame in Sheffield had been evacuated to Ashopton, and was housed in the Duke of...
Ralph was a kind giant, who spent many hours helping me get my tongue around such words as...
There was no electricity installed,lighting was parafin lamps and candles, dad had a tilley lamp for the...
When the Blitz on London started I was relocated to St David's in South Wales... By then the bombing...
When I was living with the woman at the pub, myself and the lady and another evacuee were doing a stage...
Children years ago had no money so their entertainment was mainly youth clubs, church organisations, scouts...
We had been living in Littleport and I arrived with my parents, Stanley and Dorothy Oakley, in Cambridge in...
Early in the war, when my father was recalled from the Met.Police to go back into the Royal Navy for the...
At Chepstow Church School, we cut out strips of paper to stick on the school windows against bomb blast....
Our first destination was near Huyton-with-Roby on the outskirts of Liverpool, but because of bombing we...
Both crews perished and it was reported that one of the pilots was John de Havilland, younger son of...
A Child's Memories of Wartime Oxford by Sylvia Newton. We had just moved to a new house on top of a...
I live in Croydon now, only 2 — 3 miles from Mitcham where I grew up, and Croydon had the most buzz...
Betty told us that she worked in an office nearby and that once when she was going to work she spotted...
Father took my brother and I to an Inter services Boxing Match at Appleby Park Football Ground. I was about...
1940 was a hot summer and I shall never forget the evening that we had to leave our beach chalet across the...
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