Kent

A Bride's Story

I was then evacuted to Chart Sutton in kent where I no lived with my mother and brother's and sister....

The Anderson Shelter: In Gravesend

We lived on the perimeter of a fighter aerodrome and just a few miles from the river Thames,so the german...

A School Teacher's Story

At the beginning of the war I was working at Sidcup in Kent as a school teacher. As a teacher I was...

Bombing in Swanscombe

They say that Swanscombe in Kent was the most bombed town in England... One night the Morning Star pub in...

Fun in the ATS

During the war, I was in the A.T.S. I was stationed with the Heavy Ack Ack Battery 614 on the Isle of...

Dog Fight Over Kemsing

One spring day in 1941, or so I think, I was playing in Oxenhill Road, Kemsing with several other children,...

War Time Memories

He had been shot by one of our soldiers who presumed he was the enemy..he was infact English. I remember my...

The Other Way...:Childhood memories in Kent

Heeding the foreman's advise the boys turned and ran back past their picnic and under the flightpath of...

A Sad Payday in Kent

I was seventeen years old, living in Strood in Kent....

From Holiday resort to Garrison town

Ramsgate had always been a very busy place before the war as a holiday resort, but when the war got going...

My Time in the ATS during WW2 from 1942 to 1946

I was called up in February 1942, and reported to Leicester for training, and then to Helensburgh ACK-ACK...

Battle of Britain Sunday

On that day waves of German planes came over from Dover and the Kent coast and I remember standing in the...

Safe in Wales

He went into the RAMC and our mother, granny and nurse took the 7 children to north Wales where we rented a...

One Peaceful Sunday Morning...

I was only seven when the war ended, and my most vivid memory is of a doodlebug hitting our town, Westerham...

Joining Routine

I joined Chatham in November 1942,to be met by a large chap who said here's another one. We were shown...

Hearing the First Siren and later Seeing Planes Being Shot Down Over Petts Wood, Kent

Hearing the First Siren and later Seeing Planes Being Shot Down Over Petts Wood, Kent. 15th September 1940...

Shopping: One Mars Bar Per Week

Because I had a baby brother, my mother used to ask me to go queue up at shops some 15 mins walk...

The milk stand

In the days of WW2 milk from the farm used to be put into churns. These churns were then put on iron...

A Wartime family

Canterbury recieved a heavy bombing and we hid under a table to shelter wih our two sons... We lived in...

War 2 -AA in Kent

We went to firing camp, on a cliff in Northern Walsh, where the RAF, towing a sleeve on the end of hundreds...

Vivid Memories: Evacuated from Kent to Brighton

My Grandma was evacuated for a short time, from Kent to Brighton in Sussex. During the War my Grandma...

A Little Boy's Memories of World War 2

A lad from Brierfield, from singing in the choir at St Lukes Church Brierfield, to winning a singing...

The Knock on the Door

I looked at the photo on the mantlepiece and thought of my Daddy waiting at the railway station... Hello...

A Dover Eye Witness

My brother was a Terrorial Army Royal Engineer and was manning the search light on the cliffs... There was...

A Child Observes the War

At the start of the war I lived in Ipswich and I remember this plane coming over – a German one,...

Wartime Experience

Relaxing to the Big Band, V.E.Day celebrations in the Leas Cliff Hall, I recalled those days in 1939 in...