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The Colour Yellow

It so happened that all life jackets or Mae Wests used by the Germans were coloured this fierce yellow so...

A Child in Wartime Wales.

Dad drove the tractor, Mum had a big ‘cradle’, and we children all had baskets to put the hops...

Wartime Evacuation

For some of us schoolchildren this was a great adventure.When we arrived in the Gloucestershire countryside...

Sister is born in a cellar

With Charlie behind bars with his rowdy Blackshirt mates in Brixton prison, Angela was left to fend for...

Rabbits on the Door Knobs

Also beneath our bedroom was the heavy cedarwood kitchen door. Apparently the local rabbit catcher would...

Memories of the Blitz

We had two hens and a cockerel, which were in the bomb crater still alive. My brother and me were water...

The Heroes of Shobdon

Joan's father was in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard and used to go up at night on to Purdown at Horfield, Bristol. But...

Surviving Enemy Bombing.

Petts Wood is only a couple of miles from RAF Biggin Hill,and as the air war intensified,our street...

A Young Boy in the War, and His Baptism With Death

I went back to Eastbourne, the next thing that I remember was that a cargo ship floundered on the coast; it...

J R Evans-Memories of Wales

He really did miss his rice puddings and I remember that one day, one of the travelling shops which came to...

Not Cricket!

I was off and ran into the Odeon cinema car park nearby, to my horror the bomb followed me as if it...

Old Surrey Hall

Colonel and Mrs Anderson who lived there, decided that rather than the Army requisitioning their house,...

Evacuated to Somerset

They took in an evacuee from Essex, his name was Roy Mansfield, Roy had a brother that was taken in by a...

Early Days: Memories

Pre-war, I was 6 years old of age at the beginning of the war and my first memory of this event was...

Schoolboy Messenger in the ARP

Pupils came from Winterbourne and Watley's End, and I was one of these messengers....

Last Voyage of HMS Charybdis

I lived in my parents’ house near St Judes Church in Plymouth and have many memories of the war...

First Day Light Raid in Britain

I went in our front room, my Mum asked me what I'd like for my tea, then we were blown right across...

Past Medical History: Suffering from Meningitis in an Ipswich Hospital

Diagnosis: Meningitis Child aged 3-4 Time: 1941-1942 I don't recall nice food, sweets, chocolate,...

Plane Crash at Frindsbury

I remember on one occasion a German Messerschmidt plane flying low over the gardens and heading towards the...

My Tartan Skirt

I went to Addison Potter school, Bewick Rd, Howdon... My father made toys for local kids form old bits of...

The bombing of Hull and Goole

The bombing of Hull and Goole...

My Early Years, 1939 - 1945, in the Middle East and Bristol

My father was taken to Barra Gerney Navy hospital in Bristol. We lived in Bristol a while and had to move...

Evacuation: Croydon

Despite being just five miles south of the heavily bombed Croydon the local schools were not evacuated; at...

Schoolgirl in Earl Shilton

I grew up in Earl Shilton and was eleven and a half when the war started... They gave free dances at the...

Sharing and Caring

One of our grandparents had diabetes and had to have legs taken off. I went to Park Street School during...

Stratford Characters

I was nineteen when the War started, and all the boys of that age had to go in the army whether they...