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An East Yorkshire Village with a very important secret.

All the villages along the route from east Hull were helping to look after these desperate bombed-out...

An Exciting Childhood - Part 2

EVACUATION BY PADDLE STEAMER FROM DAGENHAM TO NORFOLK AND STAFFORDSHIRE AND LATER WORKING ON ENSA IN WW2

EVACUATED BY PADDLE STEAMER FROM DAGENHAM, ESSEX TO OVERSTRAND, NORFOLK AND CHEADLE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND...

EXPERIENCES OF AN EVACUEE - 2

So arrangements were made for all of us to be baptised together and my mother came from London on 26th May...

The Evacuee

I would probably have stayed happily with the Mennell's — he sang in the choir at Tewkesbury...

I was seven years old when war broke out

We were never officially evacuated, but at some stage my sister and I were sent to Ballymena to stay with a...

A Wartime Childhood 1939-45: Part 1- Unsinkable

Ivy and Gladys were also married to sailors: Ivy to Charlie Kenny — Dad's friend — with two...

The story of the life of an ordinary little boy living during the second world war. Pt 2

Because of these pressures on my mum, and probably because of some persuasion from Miss Knapp, at one...

Wartime Memories

Clearly I do not remember the actual breakout of war, but my earliest recollection was standing with my...

War-time Recollections 1939-48

A Teacher's Story

My father Capt William Smyth was a Captain in the Merchant Navy and during the Second World War he mostly...

Laugh or Cry - Children's Transport from Hamburg

Morris, Suzi and I were joined by three more children, an older boy and a girl and boy who I thought looked...

War time Stories from WW2

When war broke out in 1939 and at the age of 4, I was living in a west London Victorian house with...

Dick Richards Early Memories in Coventry

Mum and I used to go to Birmingham to visit Gran. We would walk from Coundon to the Birmingham Road to...

Evacuation to Redruth

After about a month it was decided that I should join my school so we came back to London for a few...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part nine)

Renate and Ilse von Senfft had gone, but Tante Oda von der Marwitz was going to come with us. Brigitte and...

Evacuation from Islington to Kettering

Our hosts had invited us to call them Auntie Fay and Uncle John and really they couldn't have treated...

1940

After the air raid on Farnborough, every time the ‘alert’ sounded and there were enemy aircraft...

Memories of the Second World War

The Battle of Britain During the Battle of Britain the German fighter aircraft would machine gun civilians...

canary

But Harold knew from his private explorations of the garden wilderness that, in the little building that...

Daphne Warburton's Wartime Childhood - Part I

In October 1940 the bombing around our home was so bad that my father, Charles, Stewart Spencer Kenward...

LEICESTERSHIRE AT WAR

All the big open spaces like Braunstone Park and Western Park had concrete sewer pipes dotted across them...

some memories continued

Cub scouts became an interest and I joined the 2nd North London, 1st London Caledonians meeting at the High...

A Young Boy's War

On coming home with my sisters, from the Saturday morning children's pictures, In august 1939, I...

Memories of Evacuation and Return ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

Because the bombing was getting bad and Roy had been found out, Mum went to live with her friend Kit, also...

Raggedyass Kids

Me and Lewy and Bobby ran after the Americans ,who were running after the jeep driven by Goblin, with his...