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We Managed

Dad was on night's often, I would stay in the back bedroom normally, we'd have a wire, a tin can,...

Evacuation and Casualty

I was very happy with my new family because they had a boy who replaced my brother and they had pets... It...

Stinging nettles sans walls.

I became good at it and every time after an alarm I would go and help to fix window... First there was...

Childhood Memories in Sheldon, Birmingham

I remember being in our front lounge window, all the glass from that window was blown in, the bomb that...

Manequinny in a Spitfire

Now when I recall it - the shipyard, dungarees, muddy boots, red noses, wind blown hair, cattle dung -...

Memories of Wartime Lincoln

We used to follow behind the spinner, the tractor went along and had a flail on the back which threw up the...

My Name is Jimmy Connor

I was at home with my mother and sister on Easter Tuesday night when the Blitz began the noise was terrible...

World War 2 - To V E Day

On V,E. Day, after my parents had made secure all arrangements for a street party in the evening, together...

Bridgie's Wartime experience

Bridgie lived in Byker, in Newcastle, with her mother,and her brothers and sisters. When the air raid...

Rural memories of a post war landgirl

We used to have trips into Cardiff we seen Joe Loss and his band when he first started….and then time...

A Wartime Sunday

A GI named Louis who lived in New York always dreamed of coming to England... Courtesy of the Army he...

My Dad's War Effort and the NAAFI

Dad was a Naafi manager at Blandford in Dorset and we lived in a bungalow near the camp. We used to go...

One Of The Lucky Guys

Harold spent the war working on UP's — Unrotated Projectiles... Harold feels that he did the best...

Evacuation

We went the next Wednesday and Jessie Gibb was the housekeeper to Mr and Mrs Beeney who lived at Hildenboro...

Loose Barrage Balloon over Marazanvose

At night we could hear the bombs in Falmouth and see the lights flashing - 20 miles away. We were in the...

I joined the Navy

After six weeks of marching of marching up and down the parade ground my group of Wrens was sent down to...

A TWO TIME EVACUEE

Some time in mid 1940, Mum took me to Bromley South, station and sat me on the parapet of the bridge. The...

Pre D-Day, May 1944

Pre - D - Day May 1944 It was a warm spring morning when I and my school friends set off on...

School Evacuation In Birmingham

After a week some of the parents came to take the children home as there had been no bombing in...

Childhood Memories of Sheila Rowland

My Mum took my brother and I under the stairs and we sat on the pantry stone. I know you will always...

A Battersea Evacuee's Story

Before the war I lived with my sister and brother and my mother in Battersea. I often worried about Mum who...

School Days

The younger children had fun gas masks with Mickey Mouse faces. I remember once, lots of oranges were found...

The Women's Voluntary Service

The Plymouth office was situated at 17, George Street and from this address all the activities were...

Holidays during World War II

We used to go on holiday with tents and on one occasion, the first time in September 1944, we, I and a...

Away from home to Barnsley

I was sent off to Barnsley in Yorkshire with the school - Spring Grove Junior School, Isleworth. My father...

Post-liberation memories of a Guernsey three-year-old

British soldiers 'Uncle' George and 'Uncle' Reg. used to visit our house. Auntie Lilly...