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Evacuation to Burnley

All children in East Manchester, where I lived, were to be evacuated to safer areas — some to...

My Childhood War

The sky was full of barrages balloons and we could see German planes firing at them in the sky... The sky...

VE Day May 8th in Letchworth

I was off school for three weeks due to the fact that one of my sisters had whooping cough During that...

Ronald Chesham's Childhood Memories of the war

I was seven years old when the Second World War started and I remember my dad having to go in the army...

Extracts From: WWII Through a Childs Eyes -Friendships Made & Sad Farewells

Albert told me that Prisoners of War with English friends could spend Christmas Day with that family, and...

Hallie Salace at Chorley Wood.

When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, Hallie Salace was given sanctuary in Britain in a house on the Loudwater...

A Childs View

Children had arrived from London and were taken round to houses in my road to try to find homes for them;...

School Days

The Lady Alice uniform, for girls, was like a gym dress with a sash and you wore a blouse underneath. This...

Wartime Evacuee Incident [R. Masters]

Whilst an evacuee in wartime Totnes in Devon, the American forces were encamped in the countryside around...

An Eight Year Old to the Rescue

When Audrey was eight years old she was in her garden, watching a Flying Fortress come in to land. Audrey...

Declaration of War

Sept 3rd 1939, Lord Chamberlain had just made a statement to the people of England saying “As from...

The Day they brought the soldiers home and The Day they machined us in the playground

Summer 1940 - Bristol - The Day they machine-gunned us in the playground. Both excerpts from "Bristol...

Thelma Westell's Story

Not being far from Liverpool we were constantly being bombed and spent most nights in the Anderson shelter...

Evacuees and then Troops

My father — Mr Willian Juniper — was the Billeting Officer in Tollesbury and 200 school age...

The Incident of the Bird's Survival

My family lived in Calcutta where we had a few air-raids by Japan when Singapore fell and Burma was...

Working at the Ministry of Information

I worked in the city of London and after a few months, I changed jobs and went to work for the Ministry...

A reluctant evacuee

He said that he had stayed in Wales once in the Rhonda Valley. Then we went to the Lyons Tea Shop and...

An interesting account, but in the wrong place!

My mother said she would have 2 children, but wanted them from the same family and eventually she found 2...

'39-'45 (Sixteen Schools!) - Part 2 - "Frankie's coat".

We found out afterwards that the Germans had bombed another school used by the Auxiliary Fire Service and...

Evacuation

More than three thousand children in Dover were evacuated along with their teachers to Wales. National...

Ian Simons' War Memories

I was born in Brockett Hall, a stately home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in November 1939, because...

Memories

Neither of us wanted to go and whilst discussions were going on one of the ships carrying British children...

A Childs View of the War Years

I remember we had the wireless on, we were sitting round it, my dad was in uniform, mum had my little...

Helping To Make Auto Pilots For Our Planes

Anna, from Miami came to England and she loves it here. When she came to England I took her to Chatsworth,...

At Marron

The prisoners had an Italian cook called Guido who came to the back of the cottage regularly to collect...

The Messerschmitt Fighter Shot Down in an Orchard

I saw many dogfights between British and German fighter aircraft....