Evacuation was supposed to spare us from the war, but looking out my new bedroom window, I see black...
In the east end of London many of the homes were without baths, and whereas we usually bathed once weekly,...
Later on we exceedingly lucky because we moved from Portsmouth the following May to Bournemouth which was...
The estuary itself was full of strange looking landing craft called Mulberries, and to provide security for...
My father, who was a Fire Warden, told my mother that you could see the glow over Coventry in the distant...
Mr Coatham had some large butterfly nets and so during the ‘Battle of Britain’ when the enemy...
Mum, thinking Dad was still in the garden, called out for him but there was no answer. The siren went so my...
In 1939 when war was declared, I was ten, living in a village mid-distance between St. Albans and Luton, a...
We were extremely fortunate to be chosen by a Mrs Stainbank, a wonderful lady who lived at Coedmore, a...
One particularly disastrous air-raid  the so-called ‘‘May the seventh...
The lady next door was so happy she threw all her saucepans up her garden, which made my Mum...
Joe's was a sailor hat and Roy's were flying helmet, flying jacket, flying boots and parachute and...
On the 5th of July, 1940, the piers at Boscombe and Bournemouth were blown apart, although when the...
My brother was evacuated to Witney as his school, Ashford Grammar School were sent there — my school...
As the factory was opposite to Brighton Station the German pilots opened fire or dropped bombs on the...
Evacuations: At the start of the heavy bombing, because we lived between the London docks and some...
The children were in spinal carriages pushed by the nurses, long wicker pram like things; hobbling or...
There used to be a service in the church every Sunday and the five bells rang by Albert Hicks, Arch Barton,...
Not that Crosby itself was ever a target really: the bombers aimed for the docks and it was only stray...
However, we were soon united with the family, when Mum, Dad and my elder sisters Eva and Ivy moved to Luton...
As ganger, Joyce was given the responsibility of taking Gwen home to her family, as a pregnant worker was...
The Blacksmith in Seamer, Mr Graham nailed a horse shoe on the back of his door and asked families to nail...
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