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Being an ARP Mascot

As a four year old, I often spent many hours with the ARP at Capland Street school in St. Marylebone. Early...

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Alone

Armed with our boarding passes and one small case each, Aunt Ethel came to fetch us all in her car and we...

At School in Coggeshall and then onto War…

When I left school I started work at Crittalls in Braintree and I biked there from Coggeshall... At 13 I...

School/Child Life: In Nuneaton

Children picked rose hips at school for them to be made into rose hip syrup for babies as a supplimentary...

Memories of the Blitz in Birmingham

When war broke out I was 13 years old and living in Birmingham where we had really bad bombing —...

Living with the Vicar

I was evacuated to a place called Linkinhorne near Callington, Cornwall... Many hours later I was in a...

Childhood memories of war in Norfolk

We lived in Henderson Road in Norwich and had an Anderson shelter in the garden. My Dad worked on the...

Memories of the Second World War

Because of my courage as a small boy gave me a Jacob's cream cracker and a jar of horlicks to take...

Evacuation

We called Mrs Dutton 'Granny' and Mr Dutton 'Grandad', they had a daughter we called...

Remembrance Day

Living near the Archway, North London, my dad always made a point of taking my brother Patrick and myself...

War in North Lambeth

My father was in the army and I lived with my mother in Burdett Building , Westminster Bridge Road; next...

WWII Memories

Some Welshmen came to work at the Barugh Chemical Works; they were experimenting on how to make solid fuel...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Kilmarnock

The Grand Hall in Kilmarnock was used to incarcerate Italian Prisoners of War... The Italians from...

Food and Rations Reminiscences

We talked about offal and the various animal parts we ate including Chitterlings, Hodge, Udder, Pigs...

Evacuated from Glasgow to Gatehouse Of Fleet

The school was orignally owned by a brewery family and was taken over jointly by the education authorities...

Our American Hero

Tom and Nan were crying when a truck load of G.I.’s stopped to ask where they were going and why they...

A Very Rural War

I left on a Friday and on the Monday I started to work in a teashop, the Mary Elizabeth Tearoom, in the...

Mini Operation in an Air Raid: A Childhood Memory

When I awoke, my leg had a large hole just below the knee, the poison had been removed and there was a...

Blackout, American Forces, and the 'Pig-bin'

We sometimes went down our neighbours air raid shelter, which smelt funny My mum kept the tobbacco part of...

Making Do and Mend: Clothes Rationing

I had a cousin about 3 years older than myself, and her clothes would be passed on down to me, to save...

Children's War Effort: Devonshire Road Junior School, Blackpool

The picture with this story shows The Children of Miss Peate's class in the various Costumes designed...

Convoy Stumped by Zorro and his Gang

So young enthusiasm unleashed from the educational bonds and goaded by the weather marauded as Zorro or Tom...

My Granny in World War II

My Granny's life in the Second World War. She went to stay with her Granny for a year which was sort of...

Sheep's Head Stew

If the local sweetshop had a delivery of chocolate, word would quickly spread amongst friends, and the...

Silk Stockings

It's silly but I remember I was wearing my first pair of silk stockings... My Granny had no injuries,...

Our First Doodlebug

My brother then aged 2 was asleep in his cot, I was in the back bedroom, my parents were downstairs in our...