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The Fire Watch

Evacuated from Leeds to Ilkley - Lucy Fowler, Dorothy Threlfall

We arrived in Ilkley and went into the Kings Hall we were given a brown paper carrier with goodies in....

Outings during the War

We used to walk from Oxford Road to the 'Backs' - the backs of the collages, sometimes pushing our...

‘A Ten Mile Walk’.

We went to stay with my grandmother and then evacuated to Cwm Pamacro, which is in Wales. Mean while my Dad...

Growing up in WW2B

I was the youngest of four children I was nine, Joan was thirteen,Arthur sixteen, and Harry eighteen. We...

Enjoying Himself

Living in the Black Country was dangerous with bombers coming over most nights particularly on moonlit...

Air Raids: Childhood Memories of Boddam

Air Raids: Childhood Memories of Boddam...

Bombing Of Bottom of Margate High Street

I went to work in a drapers shop in Margate High Street, Tyler & Dingwell....

Memories of My Childhood during WW2: In Cuffley, Hertfordshire

This was because Cuffley was near Enfield were the ordnance factory was therefore being a risk for German...

Air Raid at Aunty Daisy's: In Birmingham

My father was in the artillery on guns by the canal at Castle Bromwich where the Spitfires were made and...

'Bring Me ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mum'.

My youngest brother was 11 and he was evacuated, but two days later he wrote saying ‘bring me home...

Looking After the Horses - My Dad - RAVC

He had contracted malaria and was quite unwell but he had the luck of the 'devil'.......a bomb...

Air Raid Warning boy Warden.

I remember after D'Day when the Germans started to send over the V1s, I lived in Edgware and we were on...

Safer Outside

We lived at Thorpe near Norwich, and had an Anderson shelter in our garden but my father, who was a WW1...

Evacuation to Wales from Liverpool

I was four years old when I was evacuated to Wales from Liverpool....

Bomber Crash

One day, when I was only 7 years old — must have been the beginning of 1940 — I heard a plane...

War Broke Out: Holiday Cut Short - Lincolnshire

I was on holiday with my sister, Holly, in Harrogate when war was declared and we were rushed back to our...

Waiting To Die: Doodle Bug in Watford

My brother, mother and me lived in Watford during the war... Even though Watford is considered now as north...

Near Miss

We had aunts in Australia so they would send us food parcels of tinned dried friut, butter,sugar.. but no...

Childs View of War.

I can always remember going into town with my mother and walking down George Street in Hull and seeing...

Early One Morning

Above the castle was Haldon Moor and,at the time, a squadron of Hurricanes was stationed at an aerodrome on...

Childhood Memories

One night a German plane was lost over Gretna Green and as he still had a bomb on board, he had to...

“Knocked Me to the Ground�

They were bombing the docks and it was only stray bombs that came to Greenwich and Woolwich... I was...

" You Can Call Me Aunty"

On returning from a trip to Blackpool with my late husband going through Machester train station I clearly...

Early Schooldays: Bomb in the Vicarage, Ryde, Isle of Wight

The local church hall was brought into use as an Infant school which I attended at the age of five.The...

Childhood Memories, Braintree

I attended Chapel Hill Primary School and here it is food that I remember most, gathering up apples to take...