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YOUNG MATILDA'S MEMORIES - An Evacuee's tale part 2

Three of us, Doreen, my little sister and myself, then Doreen's three nieces from next door made six:...

Recollections of My Early Years - Part 1 Daily Life

We had to shovel the coal into buckets and carry it into the back yard. It was simply a large metal tank...

Memories of a War Baby - Part Two

Boiled sweets of all flavours, or lollipops, mint humbugs, liquorice allsorts, treacle toffee that was...

Fear

I remember particularly one such film where two men were trying to get out of Germany and having many...

East Coast Invasion

In May 1939 I was living with my parents in a village called Walton on the outskirts of the east coast...

MY DARLING DIARY PART 3: 1944

Listen: When Pam heard that Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were at Helford she said: "Let's...

Wartime Childhood

Although Dad had kept goats in a previous parish, one reason for their being in Gamrie was that at a very...

Memories of 3 — 8 year old Elizabeth Bradley.

My mother soon enlisted as a nurse at the first aid post in Grove Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham and I went...

A Quiet War - A personal reminiscence of World War II - Part I

Meat, bacon, cheese, butter, margarine, sugar, tea, eggs and cooking fat were rationed in very small...

Evacuation to Canada

I won lots of badges and eventually became a King's Scout there. Eighteen months after my arrival in...

Don't forget - There is a War on!

Almost before he had finished speaking my father rose from his chair and prepared to leave for the local...

Newton-by-the-Sea, a Northumberland village during the Second World War, Part 1 (of two)

Cyclists used carbide lamps worked by putting carbide in the bottom, then letting water drip onto it. A...

A Stolen Childhood from Poland

My eldest brother and sister went to my auntie's, and the rest of us stayed with our step-mother... My...

Some Early Recollections of my Refugee Family.

Apart from my parents, my sister and myself, our household in a west London suburb consisted of my widowed...

MY WARTIME MEMORIES

A telegram was sent to my mum, but when it arrived I have since been told that it made my mum her...

A wartime childhood in South Yorkshire

My father, Cyril, having served in WW1, became involved first as Senior Warden and then was asked to take...

The War that Fashioned my Life

In early September, from the same spot, I had a grandstand view of the fire bombing of the London docks and...

In The Drum And Bugle Band

I also saw bomb damage to the Midland Station and houses in Derby Lane and Regent Street and clearly...

ABC of Infant Memories in WW2 Part 1

Mum was busy with the baby and I don't know what my big brother's excuse was, but it was me out...

Doug's War, Chapter 1, EVACUATION from Liverpool

My sister, Val, says that she remembers standing with Mum and Dad, and Raymond's parents, watching us...

A Schoolgirl in World War II

My mother was at college in London during the First World War and was in the German Zeppelin air raids over...

Thank you

Torquay is hilly and Hutch had obviously discovered a little restaurant called “The Green...

Pre-school memories of WWII in the East End of Sheffield - Part 3

At the bottom of Staniforth Road in Attercliffe was a large derelict piece of land known locally as...

1939-1945 Through the Eyes of a Child

My mam died just after VE day but before VJ day, and I had to look after my brothers and sisters until...

My Wartime Life as an Army child - part three - from South Africa to back home

He showed my mum around the quarter, although he didn't need to; she had lived here before, and then...

ON THE DAY THAT WAR WAS DECLARED PART 3

When she left school she was in service at “Newnham Paddox”, the “Big House” at...