Kent

Evacuation Memories: From Kent to South Wales.

Tearful Mothers saw us off at Strood Railway Station, the start of what seemed an endless journey to South...

Wartime Examinations

I think of it when the youngsters today talk of terrible strains and pressures, examination nerves etc.The...

Evacuations

My brother and I never went to school, we seemed to play all day, climbing trees and the haystacks, and...

Growing up during the war: In Kent and Devon

One of my little friends was shot in the back as she ran home from school by a german fighter plane ....

My Time in the War: AA Batteries in Dorset and Chatham

I joined in 1941 and travelled up to Dalkieth in Scotland for 6 weeks' training as a predictor and then...

406 Squadron and RAF Manston

On talking to a friend in Mea House Choir in Newcastle upon Tyne found that she was in Ireland, WAAF...

Memories of the Battle of Britain: A Child in Cliffe, Kent

Mostly the German Aircraft attacked R.A.F. Fighter airfields but on Saturday 7th September, late in the...

Midair Crash Of Two B26 Marauders Over Gillingham, June 1944

Recollections of the B26 crash near Grange Road, Gillingham - June 1944....

Hellfire Corner

My mother, who recently died, often spoke about her life as both a child and young woman in Dover -...

War Memories of a Schoolgirl from Dartford

My uncle arrived to take my cousin back to Manchester and I went with them because my parents thought I...

A Bird's Eye View: Invasion Day at Dover 6th June 1944

This account was written the day after D-Day by Dorothy Graeme who was a WREN stationed at Dover at the...

A Boy's life in Kent 1939-1945 (Pt.I)

When I returned to Chislehurst I noticed that most of the German plane formations seemed to meet over our...

ARP Heavy Rescue Squad

In 1939 my dad, Bert Feebery, was a carpenter working for Beckenham council, a leafy suburb on the...

Surviving the Attack on Chislet, October 1942

In the autumn of 1942 my mother was walking from Highstead to Chislet pushing my sister Carole in a pram....

From South East London to South Wales

The Germans came over the school, there was little anti aircraft fire. I have spoken to people of my age...

Reminiscences

I was playing cowboys and indians and took a flying leap over the back of the settee and landed both feet...

I Join the Army (The Sherwood Foresters) Fred Hirst's Story Part 1

I Join the Army Fred Hirst's Story Part 1. Fred Hirst was called up at the age of 18 and joined the...

My Evacuation from London to Kent, Bucks, Sussex and Herts

First I was sent privately to Lady Margaret Manor, Doddington, Kent to get me out of London... On release I...

Memories of Service in the NAAFI

Because I was working in a NAAFI things never got too dangerous, although we did get bombed by planes going...

WW2 Fire Fury: My Childhood in Kent

During the war, weekday local dances were held in the town at the Carmel Hall and Lloyds Clubhouses at...

Doodlebug and Disinfectant

I watched the doodlebug continue in the direction of the River Medway and The City of Rochester until I...

Disjointed Memories

Great was the copntempt of those of us in London for the cowards who had run away from bombs, the doodle...

Doodlebug Spotting

Over the back fence of our garden the fields of Kent stretched away into the distance with only the...

Anderson Shelter Birth

I was born on the 29th June 1944, at Bexleyheath in kent, opposite the trolly bus depot in Erith Rd where...

Our Family History of Evacuation and Finding New Homes in Lancashire by Doreen Lamb

During the blitz we moved out of London to a family holiday bungalow at Laindon in Essex, now part of...

A mother’s war time memories related by her child.

Lydia's sister Rosemary was born on 6th August 1942 during an air raid and Lydia's mum suffered a...