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So Young, But What a Memory

I cannot put a date on when I was evacuated, but I do remember standing on a railway platform grasping my...

The Coventry Blitz and Walnut Whips

On Saturday mornings we would visit the sweetshop and buy a handful of sweets, all the time eyeing the...

WW2 Memories at the Age of Six

The first memories I recall about those war years,bring to mind "the black out". We had blinds at...

John Nichols' Evacuation Tales

The same bomber followed the railway line near Cromwell Road all the way up to bomb Montepellier Station......

Philip Stowell's War Time Memories

I remember the night when I stood in my back garden watching a German aircraft being cornered by the search...

Memories of my Childhood

My brother jogged my memory about the evacuees that came to live in our street from Jersey, one of the the...

Wooler Avenue Victory Fete

The children's tea-party was held in a large marquee which was erected on a piece of spare ground in...

Our Evacuation Hell: From Bootle to Wales

We were sent to Seaforth by train and then we were taken by coach to the village hall, where we were kitted...

Davy Mitchell's German Spy By Bernard Mc Cormack

We would say “he was blind as a bat”, One Saturday morning we were playing around the lampost...

Memories of being a Teenager in Aberdeen during WW2

Ernest says:- I was a fourteen year old when the Hall Russell shipyard at Aberdeen docks was bombed....

Evacuation

We were pupils at Anfield Road School and were taken in groups from the school and left by train from...

A Terrifying Incident

Hayes lay in the direct path of aircraft flying to and from Germany on their way to London, and in order to...

My mother: Evacuated from Gibraltar

When the entire population of women,children and old men was evacuated from Gibraltar in 1940 because the...

Life in Browick Rd School

The Head Teacher was Miss Base at the Browick Road School... Miss Allen, the teacher, would do this for me....

Life As A War Orphan

After my father was killed in the war, I was moved into an orphanage in Leeds run by nuns... The evenings...

German P.O.W.s Potato Picking

Each day a group of about ten German POWs arrived in a R.A.F. lorry and guarded by one...

Joan Lewis' Story

We used to go to some Common Land called the Westwood and watch the searchlights criss crossing the sky. On...

The Apple Pies Were Saved

On one of those night raids we were all safely ensconced in the shelter when mother announced that she had...

The Day That Our ��ѿ��ý Disappeared: Bombed Out by a V1 in Ilford

When we got out all we could see was an emptiness as our home and many around had been completely...

Fairground People during the War by Pamela Heath

My Dad went to work in Enfield Lock Royal Ordinance Factory, and he took the ammunition to the docks....

Don't Play With Fire!

There was a tunnel up from the cellar and an access corridor to an escape hatch in the garden... I became a...

Wartime life in Tisbury

Later that year evacuees bombed out of London descended on Tisbury. Pictures The Cole family Doris Stan who...

Should We Evacuate? -Jean Budden

In the interim she had had a letter from my brother who had gone with the Intermediate School saying...

A Child’s Sense of Belonging Destroyed!

Our parents were not religious and Auntie and Unc were Plymouth Bretheren. Although the Plymouth Brethren...

Soldiers in Training: Little Hulton, Lancashire

Little Hulton, Lancashire, a village strung out along the A6 a few miles north west of Manchester was not...

Childhood Memories: The East End of London

I remember going through central London during the Blitz with some dolls in a pram on the way to be...