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My Mother, a nurse at Middlesex Coloney Part11

As the Second World War progressed and the nightly bombing raids got worse my mother continued cycling up...

I never intended to join the Land Army ~ I hated cows!

Next day at my interview I was told by the WLA officer that I would be working for Mr Watson at Park...

Returning to Usk Pt1

These are extracts from the memoirs of Ronald Dutt transcribed for the site, with his permission, by Judith...

A Child's memories of wartime in Blackburn

We had evacuees sent to live in Blackburn, mainly from Birmingham and East London, so we learnt new games...

A Hard Life in Youth

I vividly remember one particular night, which was one of the heaviest bombings of the war: it was the...

A Young Family in Wartime at Crosby by David Huxley

However, Dad made his contributions to defence as an A.R.P. volunteer and as a police special constable,...

FATHER JOHN DOHERTY MEMEORIES OF DERRY IN WAR - THE ALTAR BOY PART TWO

There was a very good couple in Derry, Willie and Lil Conaghan, and they put on Revues during the war, and...

A small boy in Kent

On the night before I was due to move up from the infants school to the junior school the German's...

Teesdale Tales - Part 1

Greta Dixon was born in 1931, to John Thomas and Mary Ellen Dixon, in Darlington... Mr Dixon, as well as...

Wartime memories - an Oxford child's war

It was a wonder, thinking of it now, because there were big munitions factories in the next suburb to us,...

My World War II story

They were getting extremely worried about my Grandmother in London because the air-raids and the bombing...

Patricia Edwards' Teenage Memories of the War Years

While dad was in Kent, I, my sister and mum moved back to Havant — into a house in North Street which...

Civilians at war - part 2

As we were about three miles from the nearest newspaper shop, the daily papers were put on the branch line...

Childhood images and recollections from WW2

Daphne Warburton's Wartime Childhood — Part 2

When I went to Maidstone in September 1940, my mother took me, and two other small girls, by train, and...

Holland 1940-45

With food being so scarce a lot of people took their gold rings and valuables to certain unscrupulous farms...

Wartime memories of Failsworth and Blackburn - evacuated from London to Lancashire.

Then my mum got a house in Blackburn and then my brother, my younger brother, he went to stay with another...

Isolated memories…barely glowing embers: addendum four

Then Dad told me I would not pass ‘The School Certificate’... If Dad had not intervened I might...

Henry Brooking, Builder, and Family during the War by Aileen Friend (nee Brooking)

Harry, Hannah and Aileen made arrangements to go down to relatives in Cornwall. Their doctor in Cornwall...

To Scotland and back

In late 1943/early 1944 air raids on London began again, during this time the guns in Finsbury Park were...

The Rectory as a billet/no champagne for Winston

About this time I was going down the hill to the swimming pool we picked up some souvenirs from the...

Near Miss

That winter and spring were memorable in many ways; my first time away from home, collecting conkers and...

War is Personal

When any of the food needed to be boiled or roasted and it would have released tantalizing aroma mother...

Near Misses

A Yorkshire Girl's Reflections

When the sirens went, he had to go out in the car with dimmed headlights looking for blackout leaks and to...

Audrey's childhood memories of WW2

Dancing fairies I belonged to a dancing troupe of tiny tots and we were taken to several venues to perform...