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How the war affected the daily life of children

On one occasion an aeroplane — not a training aeroplane but a fighter aircraft — came across...

Interview with Eric Atkinson - chapter two

The Lancaster Bomber that crashed in the river bank: “Dear Sir, for the last year I have been...

A WARTIME CHILDHOOD — Part 1

London Bombing: My own earliest memories are of the bombing of London. I think they burnt down one of the...

David Hutton's Childhood Wartime Memories of North Hampshire

The Bombing of Basingstoke There was a big bombing raid on Basingstoke... We watched them head towards...

My Wartime Memories

My little sister had been very spoilt at home, being the youngest of a very doting family-many was the...

A Tailor-Made Career during the War

My father was in the navy, so I say I was “launched” I wasn't christened, ‘cos I was...

Farming and Life on Dunstable Downs

When the Met station opened in Dunstable there was a RAF chap named Sgt S, who hailed from Essex and had...

World War 11. Memories of 1939-1945 in and around Bootle, Liverpool -3

A Child's war, Part 4

Eileen got a job at a cinema in Southport... Meanwhile Dad and Uncle Arthur were in their squadron, 925,...

Longstone Local History Group - Tony Greenfield’s Story

Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...

World War 11. Memories of 1939-1945 in and around Bootle, Liverpool - 1

Growing up in Armagh during WW2

My cousins Bobby and Maureen lived in London and my Auntie Laura and her two children Patricia and Ian...

When bombs, Yanks, and Queen Mary came to Tredworth

The one incident I remember very distinctly just after Dunkirk, end of May or beginning of June, I came out...

A Child's Life Saved By Penicillin

My friend's father, a clerk at Parkeston Quay was transferred to Colchester until his call-up to the...

What difference did the war make to me

For the first two years of the War, lessons would be interrupted without warning and everyone had less than...

GROWING UP 1939-1944

These were only used in practice for, when the Blitz started, three bombs were dropped in the playing...

Growing up during the War Years

I remember with my brothers and sister walking to the railway to see trains pass with war wounded returning...

A Durham Childhood

My maiden name was Dorothy Elizabeth Borrell and I lived with a sister and two brothers and a cousin in the...

A London Family's War

When I went to secondary school at the age of eleven I found out that I was the only one still being...

A Childhood in Co.Durham and Hetton-le-Hole

My maiden name was Dorothy Elizabeth Borrell and I lived with a sister and two brothers and a cousin in the...

child hood

My sister and I always had our ownlittle patch of garden but whhilst hers, like my mother's blossomed...

My Wartime Wanderings

At the start of the war when I was about 10/11 years old I left East Ham where we were living and...

Wartime Schooldays

Then came the great day for we cadets, we had been informed that Lady Louis Edwina Mountbatten, deputy Lady...

Schoolboy wartime memories of Chalton, Bedfordshire Part One - Evacuees at school, the local Civil Defence and the construction of Tempsford airfield.

Schoolboy wartime memories of Chalton, Bedfordshire Part One — Evacuees at school, the local Civil...

Recollections of an Evacuee.

Lillian McElvenney, Joseph McElvenney Raymond, Gloria, Joseph McElvenney, Mr. & Mrs. Hacket and their...

Memoirs of WREN Sheila Bayley, Part III: 1942-45

So he left his ship somewhere in Halifax and went on to Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, and then he brought...