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WW2 The evacuation of the Clapton Family

A few days after we settled into Stepps Cottage and mum had collected Doreen, George and Lily from their...

Memories of evacuation and Bevin Boy War Service

I used to hang around Margate harbour from an early age, hoping for a ride in a boat Word had got around...

Montefiore House School

But Mr Rowan went further by converting poems to plays for the whole class act - in my year with him we...

Geoffrey Webb

Ltd. from their depot at Coleford to Chepstow via Brockweir & Tintern and via Tidenham Chase. However,...

Chasing pigs in Somerset and bomb disposal in Norfolk

Earlier in the war Dad had been on duty one evening when one of the first bombs to fall near us killed...

A Rural Child touched by war (Part 1 1939-1942)

They were not local people, my grandfather had been blinded in the First World War and they had eventually...

My growing up years

Not that it meant anything to me, I had been vaguely conscious of a worried look on my Mother's face...

WW2 Childhood

Aircraft machine gun staccato overhead with searchlights panning the night sky.My family used next...

The Day the War came ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ - Chapter 2

Mr. Pearce from 5 Chaucer Road brought out his film projector and played cartoon films on the blank wall of...

A schoolboy's wartime memories of Nevendon, Essex Part One

An opportunity arose in the summer of 1934 when we moved to the ‘Blue Bird Café’ at...

The Story of my evacuation, 1939 by Rene Seager, Worthing.

Indoors, I never missed Childrens Hour on the wireless at 5 o'clock, with Dennis McCullock reading...

World War 2 Memories and Evacuation

My mother was unable to leave as she had Charlie just over 2 years old and Rosemary 6 months but Gladys and...

A youngsters, war.

Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto - A Holocaust Survivor Remembers (Part II)

The last 56,000 Jews were killed, a few managed to escape, some joined the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Army and formed a...

Childhood memories of the war.

Life went on - my brother and I were sent to the country again, by ourselves, but our uncle's small...

Isolated memories…barely glowing embers: addendum three

Rowena's friend Jack Dalrymple … Val Griffiths, the OC of ‘St Christopher's Boys...

'As Seen By The Child

All the windows and doors had been blown out of their house, and the gas cooker was halfway down the garden...

A Coram Boys War - A personal story

It was a small group of us who always played together of John, Mike, Tom and Henry... Mike had read all...

WW2 AS A CHILD IN ST.PANCRAS.LONDON

Difficult, and very scary, on the bad nights with the guns firing and bombs exploding, So daily life went...

MY STORY 2ND WORLD WAR (1939-45)

To our horror after this first raid over Manchester and subsequent ones, when we all swarmed out of the...

Evacuees Story September 1939

I was awarded first go in the bath, then my brother, then Rose would take her turn, replenishing the hot...

An Evacuee in Witney

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Address at start of war: Newtown, Ashford, Kent Address in Witney area: Woodstock Road. Other Points...

SHEILA`S WAR

When WW2 began, dad had been in the Army — Duke of Wellington's Reg`t — for more than 8...

Wartime Memories

There was a Methodist Church in York Street Called Maguire's the name was changed later on to The North...

Remembering East Harling, Norfolk and East Ham, Essex

My mother was born in a small village in Norfolk and when the evacuation commenced she took me and two more...

Two Guernsey sisters' experiences as evacuees in Paisley

Auntie and Uncle asked us if we would like to go to the school attended by their niece: and nephew,...