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Denis's near miss at Tottenham

You did see some children who had wings — cloth ones from pilots tunics. Although this may seem...

My close encounter with a doodlebug - twice!

On a visit to La Coupole, near St Omer in France in May 2002 I visited a site of the V2 Intercontinental...

BELSEN '45

It was the smell of "old death", death that seemed to be still living or perhaps death as a way of...

Bombing near Ben!

Bombing near Ben. In 1940 I was told I was going to be evacuated with my brother to live in Crook, Co...

The Evacuee

They literally " missed the boat " when the City of Benares was sunk with the loss of 87 evacuees....

I was nine years old when war started

I can remember the night Coventry was bombed... When they were dropping the bombs at Coventry I remember my...

Hammering the shelters in celebration.

Eventually me and my younger brother were evacuated to Blackpool to stay with our grandparents... Me and my...

One Ton of Silver Paper.

All of a sudden I heard a big thud and there in the road was a huge bale of silver paper. You...

City to Countryside - John (Chick) Freed

City to Countryside - John Freed. One evacuee, John Freed who was evacuated to Cambridgeshire was sent to...

Memories from a 12 year old boy

When I was a Twelve year old boy, I lived in Rusholm, my dad as in the army, me and three brothers...

Wartime life

For rations, we were allowed 2 ounces of butter, 40 of sugar and 1 sixpence of rationed clothes... I had a...

Barnum & Bailey's Circus

Nell and I had to bike up to Pelham's Pillar to collect two hay rakes and two horses and take them to...

My Early Wartime Recollections.Part 1. As related by William Cope.

My name is William Cope and I was born in 1927 in the village of Willington, some 6 miles south of Derby...

A Place To Stay

I was playing the street near the evacuees’ reception centre when I came across a small boy sat on a...

Doddle Bug

I was about 13 at the time, evacuated and attending Bruckley Central Boy's School which was billeted in...

Barbara Powell's Story

I remember one large farmhouse where we stayed had a large ground floor window in our make-shift dormitory...

Gardens of Ash

Our garden was mostly ash, so was our next door neighbours so we could not dig down deep enough to build...

WW2 memories of a boy

Dad moved to Grays, Essex to be a Fire Warden at Magnet Timber Yard... Normandy Landings: American tanks...

Sugar in tea or rice pudding

I well remember my Gas-mask in its lacquered tin and seeming endless hours spent doing jigsaw puzzles, the...

Ledston Luck was safe.

I lived in the village of Ledston Luck near Castleford during the war. My brother took in boys from London...

LUCKY ME (Poem)

When Auntie sat me on her knee, a Chinese song she sung to me. The games we played on winters' eves,...

Amy

She lived in Kings Heath With a wire in her teeth ‘cause her dentals were apt to protrude I now say...

School days during WW2

My first infant school was Duncombe Road Infants, near St John's Way, London. and it is still there...

wartime.memories

My brother followed after the following Easter, soon after his third birthday... The only teddy we owned...

A child in wartime Letchworth

I didn't know at the time but some of the parts she made I now know would have been used in the...

Doodle Bug