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Childhood Experiences During World War II

I was born in 1931 in Wallasey, Cheshire on the river next to Birkenhead, across the river from Liverpool -...

Re: Salehurst Road SE4 to Brunswick Road IP

The Anti Aircraft 'Ack Ack' battery on Hilly Fields or the Barrage Balloon at Blythe Hill, picking...

Growing up in the War 1939-45 Part 2

We all listened to favourites like Tommy Handley in Itma, Workers PlayTime, The Gang Show, and Vera Lynn......

'Grandpa Remembers the Second World War'.

Later we learnt that the Germans had attacked the airfield and dropped some bombs. The threat of the German...

Fiancée/Wife of a merchant seaman

At some stage Kim went to the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Blackpool for suggestions on how goods could...

Evacuees in Grantham and Stamford

The government was concerned that London and all other big cities would be bombed, so they encouraged that...

Memories of the past

One of the very thrilling times for us was when the Fair would come to Chigwell Rd, bottom of Maybank by...

A VIEW OF WWII FROM GREENWICH AND DERBYSHIRE

Along with Mum, I can remember meeting up with lots of other children and some ladies at Charing Cross...

He's after me with a gun!

My first job was at the Co-op in Franche Road, Kidderminster, where I was to work in the dairy laboratory...

The Peril's of Pauline

So on the 3rd September 1939 with my mother, four brothers and my sister Pamela, we and most of the other...

Recollections of a Leicester child during World War 2 - 1944 - 1945

1944 saw the American GI's billeted at the Leicester Racecourse prior to D Day and through the...

A peripatetic war

A Little Evacuee

I began to think that everybody was going to have a bed for the night apart from my sister and I, and...

Gwen Brockway - Diary of an Essex Girl (part 3)

The following day I had two letters, one from Sandy's Mum and Dad saying they would be at Stan and...

I remember the outbreak of World War II in the Elephant and Castle, SE London.

I remember the outbreak of World War II in the Elephant and Castle, SE London. Bill Cole of the Elephant...

A Schoolgirl Remembers Life Under the German Invaders, Part I

What really made a difference was when the Germans started over-running Belgium then turning into France...

Warbreak

St.Simon and St.Judes Parish Hall in Southport was some distance from the station and I noticed that not...

"Everyday living on a farm"

My Mother, Jane, went to the Village Institute Hall and returned with Marion Bell, a seven year-old girl...

The Day The War Broke OUt

Dad rushed off to his A.R.P. station and Granny and Grandad Hichens came up from their lower Duncairn...

Plotting the passing convoys - a Wren's tale

So I remember we moved every four days to a different place: the first place was helping a farmer pick...

Growing Up on Banner Hill Farm PoW Camp (continued) - My Early Schooldays

My Mum and Dad moved to Goodrest Farm when I was three years old. Leek Wootton also had its own Blacksmiths...

A Child's War in Wales

We five adults and one child managed to fit in somehow — and then came the evacuees — two...

The 'Perils' of Evacuation!

A colleague of his, Bill Wainwright, lived at 'Chesswood Grange', in rural Lapworth, Warwickshire....

Remembering the casualties who died at Cooper House, Selside in April 1941

Months later there were many tales of lights showing from the house due to ineffective blackout...

Coping with Life: Betty Goodwin's Evacuation Story Part 2.

Dad came down sometimes it must have been arranged with mum because it was always when Mr and Mrs Baker...

Child of the War

As there was also an ack-ack station on Bostall Heath, less than a mile away, we were right in the hear of...