Kent

A Child's Paradise: Folkestone

This was to escape the constant bombing of Folkestone and shelling from the enemy guns only 22 miles away...

Our Journey to Shanghai Via Avonmouth

When we reopened the huse, there was great excitement, especially when Mum looked in the oven to find Dad...

A Child's Experience of War in South East London

One of the things I was always doing was pushing gran around the garden in my large wheel barrow, one day...

A Schoolboy's War in Tunbridge Wells

We Tunbridge Wells’ children had no idea then how lucky we were, for we never had to suffer the...

Memories Of A Land Girl-Constance Hoskins

Then I was sent into the Land Army, I had never travelled so far on my own before, but I got there...

From Bretteville to Brunswick

It was a spitfire and as it reached 'Doon House' it turned towards Manston and when it went to do...

Morehall School Posters

I discovered some posters in the Folkestone Heritage Room that were drawn by pupils from a local school in...

Ultimate Sacrifice.

And so in June 1944 after a massive build up the allies returned to France at the beaches of Normandy.At...

Crisis? What Crisis?

Cook-house tent had to go up first and we all wanted to help with that.Our cook Fred West, was an...

Joining Up

Then back to London river, then to Poplar dock for a month's refit, after which we sailed for two years...

Evacuation Experience (Cornwall)

Also in 1943, all the Jewish young boys, like myself, had to go in a bigger boys’ cottage called...

Summer of 1940: A 13-year-old's View of War - Catford and Reigate

My 3 brothers Dudley, Dennis and Kenneth were all in the forces, Dudley and Dennis in the Army and Kenneth...

Life in Folkestone

The war situation must have looked quite serious in Folkestone as we left to move in with my maternal...

The People's War

At Dunkirk they all lay on a sandy beach, while German Bombers flew along the back of the beach...

Evacuation: Margate to Rugeley, Staffs

The younger evacuees were attending the village school but, as we out numbered the local children, we older...

My Second World War Memories

My brother Eddie Edward Tanner, who had joined the Territorial Army had gone on a cycling holiday with a...

Life on HMS Dragon

Every other day we would go ashore and catch the train from Simonstown to Cape Town and we would meet up...

Up the North Sea on a Pleasure Boat - Gravesend's War

We left home very early on Saturday Sept.2nd and boarded a pleasure steamer called ‘The Royal...

My Meeting with Colonel Montgomery Head of British Intelligence

After a while I realised that the officer that I had met was Colonel Montgomery, the head of British...

Memories of a Teenage Wartime

We left Catford station at 9.30 that Saturday and finally ended up at Ashford station about 12.30 where we...

Jenny's Memories

My maternal grandfather owned the Pavilion Picture House in Forfar, and picture houses in Glasgow and...

Aircraft and Doodlebugs

On the steep hills behind Hythe gun batteries were positioned to disable or destroy the doodlebugs....

Around the War and Back: A Miner Goes to War with the Royal Army Service Corps

Dad enjoyed seeing this foreign country, places like Rouen and Brittany were lovely, but eventually hard...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - Part 5

I discovered that I had two brothers in law already in Kent - both Sergeants, as I was, and each was in...

Recollections of July 13 1944

Father, closely followed by my elder brother and myself, rose went into the hall where he chose to turn...

Par For the Course: Hythe in the War

I was already helping on Y.M.C.A. vans that served tea and buns and cigarettes etc to the troops in an area...