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A Kid's Vision: Bombed Out in Hackney

I was with my Mum Kitty and brother David... Mum opened the front door and as we stood there, in silence, I...

A Brush with Special Branch

My brother lived in London and I sent him a letter telling him about the article... O f course at the time...

Monkey Nuts In Ipswich

We were three boys, two girls, my aunt, grandmother, and mother, all in three bedrooms. We were happy to...

Children's War

As a nine-year old boy at Ellington School, Maidenhead, I remember that, in 1940, we used to go to St....

Watching the Planes from the Outside Loo.

As a little girl I wanted the loo so we called into the outside toilet of one of the houses that was...

Air Raid Memories

There were four of us kids, and the youngest were the twins, Christine and Carol Jarvis... The bombing was...

My School in Bearwood

I lived in Bearwood, just outside Birmingham, with my parents and started school the day after war was...

Child at war

2 miles away was a battery of AckAck guns which would fire at the planes going over only once did the...

Belvedere Evacuee

My Mother, Valerie Jeanette House, went to West Street School in Belvedere, Kent and was initially...

Derby Visited by King and Queen

Gwyneth Kelly These memories told to Jo Taylor of the Holmewood and Heath CAP team, and added to the site...

Doodlebug Injury

Mother sssumed that when the engine of a doodlebug stopped it did a 45 degree turn towards the ground......

Brief Memories of Evacuation

We returned home and were re-evacuated from Clapham, South London, to a place in Devon near Halsworthy......

The Proverbial Ostrich.

We thought he was aiming at us, and as I was very near to some sand dunes I literally hurled myself into...

Experience of My War Aged 7 Years: Evacuated from Birkenhead to Llandidloes.

Experience of My War Aged 7 Years: Evacuated from Birkenhead to Llandidloes. In 1939 i was 7 years old and...

Evacuation, Motorbikes and an Alsatian dog

My family lived in Birmingham and they made private arrangements for me to be evacuated to Berkshire to...

Doodlebugs

I ran out to the back door and called my dad who was in the garden, and as he got in the...

My Evacuation to the Country

Scott of the Belfast Education & Library Board / Holywood Arches Library O n behalf of Beryl Carson and...

Doreen's Story

I also remember the Germans in the Nissan huts in Blandford Road. My husband Dan and his family used to go...

William Wilson - Lucky Survivor of Incendiary in Coventry

I collected sand from a pile nearby and was pouring sand onto the incendiary when it exploded... I was...

Tower Building Air Raids

During the German air raids over Liverpool in 1941, my father was working for Ellermans Shipping Line in...

Stranded Schoolgirls

Walked the usual mile to the bus terminus from our evacuated London school housed in a Surrey mansion,...

Hop-picking

We were staying on a farm in Goudhurst, hop-picking. I can remember all the adults were standing round in...

School Trip

My pal, Geoff was the youngest to be included. I still have the souvenir paper-knife inscribed...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Denton by Gordon Taylor

We were told of the bomb that fell close to the Club House of Denton Golf Club....

Memories of World War Two: In Hastings Old Town

There was no fruit and very seldoom saw cheese but had to eat powdered cheese and eggs. Meat was also hard...

POW Camp

When we would go to bed we would hear the sirens and then we had to get into the air raid shelters...