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Memories of a child in Wartime — Part 1

My dad was a really clever bloke and he rigged a contraption on our outside door that flicked a switch to...

Arthur Turner

They came back on a train, there used to be a station the bottom of Garden City Racecourse Station, and...

Incomers to Constantine, Cornwall

My parents kept a Guernsey house cow, several followers for sale, hens for eggs, a few ducks, about 4...

Isolated memories…barely glowing embers: addendum five.

In Lloyd's Bank House were Mr & Mrs Jones, and Melville the housekeeper, Ronny and Celia, Judith...

Claude's wartime memories - Part Two

Part two of an edited oral history interview with Mr. Claude Banks at the Bedford Museum ‘Aniseed...

Nursing wounded servicemen at Parkwood in Swanley Village

I was nursing at Parkwood which was a hospital convalescent home in Swanley village with its own grounds....

Evacuee Remembrances — Hello and Goodbye (and hello again)

But then alas came the moment of decision after an announcement that the last two children needed a loving...

Childhood Nostalgia

My mother, despatching me on errands to the Co-Op and visits to our local cinema: ‘’The...

BALHAM IN THE BLITZ

One night a bomb landed in Balham High Road and a bus went down the hole and punctured the water mains and...

Child of War: Memories of a childhood spent in Merseyside in 1940-1942

But life went on and I remember I used to live on the beach and I remember being chased off the front...

Hitler and my Grandfather - Chapters 1-3

One July afternoon there was much aerial activity and my favourite cousin who was older than me knocked on...

A boy's view.1939 WW2

A real bonus for us kids was collecting ack-ack shrapnel on the way to school and finding incendiary bombs...

A Child's View of Britain at War

Soon afterwards the German bombing raids stared and Kent suffered so much because we were on the route from...

Marion Carrington's Story Part 2: My Return To Teaching

About this time, train loads of children from London were billeted with families in the Hemsworth area for...

Bitterne Park Memories -1939-1945:pt I

My brother and I walked to school, Peter taking me to infant school on the first occasion — and...

The Evacuation of the South Hams by Jane Putt.

The following proclamation was posted in the villages of Torcross, Slapton, Strete, Blackawton, East...

My War

I was luckily picked to represent the South Coast Student Nurses to visit London to see the new film,...

Leaving Leeds 1939

Spring was welcomed after the hard winter and we were told we would leave Lincoln and return to Leeds to...

Tim Parr's memories of World War 2 part 1

H. Civil Defence at Eton, . . . ambulance attendant, ambulance, . . . still have empty steel helmet,...

An Evacuee from Merseyside Recounts Life in County Down during the War

In the late 1930’s there was some fear that Germany and England would go to war, so English Prime...

Butter and Bombers over Dudley

Butter and Bombers over Dudley...

Memoirs of an eight year old veteran

But it was mainly the older children who had finished school and only had jobs that mams and older sisters...

Working in Kempston and Bedfore before enlisting in the Navy D.E.M.S. - Part One

So I went to Bedford Plough and Engineering which is right on Cow Bridge, it's Ampthill Road, you turn...

True Memories

On the train from Devon to Blackpool, we had mixed feelings, glad to be with our Mum and Dad and going to...

Bananas

Following these raids throughout the war we would often visit the site to collect souvenirs of shrapnel, a...

Memories of an Evacuee -Part 5

Just as the summer months were coming to an end, aunt Phylis and aunty Dora had decided to take Eric and I...