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World War Two pt 1 by Bob Lock

We shared school premises with the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School for Boys. This poem had been...

War at Primary School

Mum was advised that if she were to put a tiny touch of Vaseline on her finger then smear over the inside...

"A CHILD'S MEMORIES" (Wartime in Brighton, Worthing & London)

I lived in Brighton with my Granny, brother and sister, who were both working. Two years later when I was...

Free trip to the seaside (part 1)

There was a Police Box opposite Dr. Bannatynes Surgery on Moston Lane East and a fire alarm outside St....

From East London to Somerset to Hanworth, Middlesex

In 1943 there had not been much bombing for a long while and in any case Hanworth was a long way from...

A Family's War Without Guns

My two sisters and my brother and I came to live with Uncle George and Aunt Emily because my dad needed a...

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WAR TIME PLYMOUTH

My brother Douglas was 3 years older than I and my sister Joan, 10 years older. When the war ended Joan,...

Evacuation to Canada II

We had a splendid cabin, with bunks for four officers, and welded steel cupboards. My sister and I started...

Memories of Evacuation during the Second World War

Life at Abercarn without my brother Jack. When Jack came at Christmas (1940) to stay with us, I am sure Mrs...

I was an Evacuee

He puffed at his pipe, his speech very broad Norfolk dialect, this was Paul Garner, the farmer of Lodge...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Dunstable

The Londoners didn't like the Germans or the Italians and encouraged us to do these awful spitting...

Geoffrey Ellis. Newhaven WW2 memories.

At the time of the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, there was a need to berth some thirty LCTs at Newhaven for...

After the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½coming

Joe didn't stay long working for the Post Office, he was enticed away by the offer of more money,...

Separation and Reunion for the Anderson family of Mitcham

My father was working in London for Thomas Cook the travel agents, whom he joined in 1919 after being...

My Wartime Experiences in the London Blitz 1939 /1945.

I was born in Lambeth and lived in south-east Dulwich, but later moved to the first council estate built by...

The War Robbed Me Of My True Love

After Liverpool I was posted to H.M.S. Night Jar at Inskip, which was handy for me because I could cycle...

A WAAF who wore "Sparks"

Porter stopped a coal lorry to give me a lift to station HQ — Operational ‘Drome — vastly...

world war two memories

Another incident occured with my tom boy sister riding her bike no handed down the village high streat She...

world war two memories

Another incident occured with my tom boy sister riding her bike no handed down the village high streat She...

Childhood memories from rural Lancashire near Preston

This was just about at the meeting point of the parishes of Croston, Eccleston and Ulnes Walton on the West...

NORMAN'S WAR

My cousins, Flying Officer Alfred Kidd and his sister Margaret Kidd, who was in the WAAF's, had a spot...

Jim Libby’s Schoolboy Recollections : Part 1 - at Sandplace & Looe during World War 2.

I think he was part of the boatbuilders Curtis and Pape at Polean and West Quarries up the West Looe River,...

Farm work as a Prisoner of War in East Prussia 1940-45 - Bernard Loughlin's War Part 3

The beet was taken to the nearest railway station goods yard and by rail truck to the sugar factory, where...

Some Snapshots from the Memory

As the Luftwaffe built up it's offensive we found ourselves in what became known as "bomb...

Life of Grandad Part 2

Owning a car in 1948 was out of the question so after the wedding and reception we had to catch a stopping...

A Child's Memory Of WW2

The hall at Leiston, just outside the village of Melford was also taken over by the military and later...