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The Street

From my bedroom window I could see all that was going on and Mrs Smith was still sitting there, the dying...

Eclectic Wartime Memories

Then they got a Morrison shelter, the one you had in the house, like a great big cage, so she and her...

Working For Uncle Sam in Derry

I had to get one of the boys from the Commissary dept. and the head of the Commissary Dept was a man...

Personal Recollections of Francis J Wallace Part 2

However the reality of living with no windows in some rooms — the broken panes replaced with sheets...

An Engineer's War - Part Two

John Edkins: My son lives in Stratford, in Shottery and he's the manager/ a director at Kingston...

Entertainment During The War, Part 1

This has been achieved by hard and dedicated work by members past and present in fund-raising and giving...

Growing up in the War 1939-45

There are unconnected memories of going down the steps into a cold, damp, dark shelter built in the...

Gil's war (1) The start

Then suddenly, at about 11 am the next morning there was a flurry of activity and someone rushed down the...

Maud Faulkner - Growing up during the war

The blackout for me was a blessing in disguise, at least nobody I knew could see Aunt and I eating a...

My Shaggy Dog Story

The rest of the doggy family, included William, a large aristocratic looking Poodle, a beautiful Alsatian,...

My War Time Experiences

On the 3rd September 1939, I can recall the sombreness of Mum and Dad, Aunt and Uncle, who lived next door...

A Babe in Arms

Esme married Charles Edwin Whitworth and lived in Oakfields Avenue, Knebworth, Hertfordshire. With the life...

Childhood Reflections from HULL

I lived with my family in Alexandra Road on Newland Avenue in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire... Whilst...

My Memories of World War 2

The sirens would sound in the early evening, and we would sit in our tiny shelter in the back garden as the...

Wartime Memories, Part 2

In 1947, several of us from Manton YHA had a youth hostelling holiday in Norway, the first holiday abroad...

The Land Army, What it was Really Like

The Land Army was good training for being a farmer's wife. A letter received from The Ministry of...

More Shared Memories, Part One: group session held at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, 9 March 2005

I lived with my grandmother at the time in Luton, Chatham, and I don't remember us being short of food....

Memoirs of an Evacuee

I lived in Walthamstow, East London, with my parents, a brother aged 6 and a sister aged 2. At the height...

Some Memories of the war years 1939 - 1945

There were at least 12 Barrage balloons in Falmouth to deter enemy bombers we could see them high in the...

The Fears of John Thornhill Ward - a Child from Poplars Farm, Anslow.

In 1938 plans started to go ahead for the Burton Upon Trent bye-pass, leaving the Litchfield Derby Road at...

The Formative Years

After dad went into the army, mum, the baby and I slept together in mum's bed. Then he, mum and my...

Witnessing Salford's War

I started to attend the village church school and made friends with the farmer's daughters who lived...

Mrs Williamsons War Memories -Part One of Two

Mrs Williamson was seventeen in 1939 and lived in Hither green which is situated in Southeast London, she...

FOR A NINE-YEAR-OLD - WARTIME WAS FUN

We lived in Shoebury near Southend on the Thames Estuary, which was a great vantage place to see the...

Teenage Memories: An Extraordinary Way of Growing Up

It was no good offering a German anything other than cigarettes if you wanted to buy anything - their...

Memories of a child in Wartime — Part 2

One night, as we were all asleep, all except Brenda, an Airman from the village dance tried to get through...