South East Wales

Patrick’s Evacuation Story,

I cannot remember how long my brother was at Alltwen, it was several months, but he eventually came to live...

From Folkestone to Tintern: An Evacuee's Story

Evacuation: South East England to South Wales 1939 - 1942 On the morning of Sunday 3 September 1939, I was...

Childhood in Wartime Twickenham

The first house I lived in was in Princes Road, Teddington, but I lived throughout the war in a railway...

The Yanks Are Coming

They were certainly different if only because they were patient to the many children who appeared as soon...

Good Morning, Mr Hess

Rudolf Hess in Abergavenny The arrival of the deputy Reich fuhrer in Abergavenny was made known to us by...

Evacuation to Wales: From London to Treherbert

We'll Meet Again

I was wretched in my homeland and my heart was heavy, picturing the equally wretched children scattered...

A Welsh Girl’s Perspective: Part 1

My mother used to make “Sausage Savoury”, consisting of sausage meat, onions, carrots, potatoes...

Herr Wilhelm Schomaker

I have also lots of questions for Chepstow, most good ones, because we were treated like human beings. I...

Discipline for ther young soldier

The army had taken over the lovely country house, Nostell Priory near Wakefield,and before that at another...

On the Home Front: In Lincolnshire and Penarth

Minnie did her own baking and the only meat was from the pig Gilbert killed twice a year... William was a...

Idea from the Picture of an Underground Air Raid Shelter

Often the sight of our big, cuddly, much loved Mama, struggling through the small opening of our shelter,...

Being Half-Japanese Children during the War

We were born in Cardiff our mother was English and our father was Japanese. On VJ day we were put in the...

Evacuation to The West Country

We took him to be a Naval Officer but he turned out to be a bus driver named Alf Poulton. Alf Poulton...

Memoirs of Working at the ROF Glascoed

The Factory had about 6 sections and each had a canteen but by this time they were brick buildings fully...

Keith Underwood

The “Short Cut” was a name applied both to the Old Hill and the lane from Tutshill which was a...

Memories of a Wartime Erk in the RAF

Technically we were attached to RAF Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, but we never went there and the...

Evacuee to ATS driver

I was 13 years old in 1939, a pupil of Ilford County High School for Girls and living at 26 ARDWELL AVENUE,...

Betty Bennett Chepstow Memories

I joined the Chepstow Young Farmers’ Club where Philip was a member. I was late for my Cardiff and...

Dorothy Bartle Chepstow Memories

Of a night time, Mum always used to look through the window to see that they were blacked out properly over...

Underground as a Bevin Boy

However on top of the coal itself there was a layer of "muck" - a hard and heavy stone which the...

Dorothy Collis's Story Part 3

There was no let up with the air-raids, and Violet, as I mentioned before was becoming more and more upset,...

As I Travel Along Life's Sometimes Stony Path - Part 5

In that same month Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, with Harry S. Truman inheriting the Presidency of the...

Peter Phelps

I knew quite a number of the Land Girls because we used to go dancing to Llanishen in the crowd you know,...

Keith Underwood's Memories -Part 2

I would have had to pass Beachley Post Office, which was then at the side of the Three Salmons and run by...

Keith Underwood's Memories -Part 1

I lived with my family in the army quarters at Pennsylvania Village which at that time was isolated on the...