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Tanks Rumble by my Bedroom Window

I later learnt that German Jews who had fled Germany were, on arrival in Britain, first accommodated in a...

London to Grantham and Back Again

It was at this point in the war, Mother, brother and myself moved to Grantham in Lincolnshire to be next...

Childhood Memories of WW2

MEMORIES OF WW2 1 939 I was five wears old and living with my Mum and Dad In Clapham, South London when...

Evacuated to Cornwall

Dad was presented with a Clock for his bravery and I have the letter he received from the Dean of St. Pauls...

Wartime Experiences: Evacuation, the Luftwaffe, and Disrupted Education

Immediately following the outbreak of war and heeding government advice my mother self-evacuated my sister...

Evacuating London

He left my younger brother with my mother in London and set off by train to Leeds. We used to scrump apples...

Memories of a Small Boy

Not dramatic ones, I was lucky being evacuated away from the worst of the bombing of London to my...

Ada Beackon War Worker

In 1941 I was by now married, I was directed into war work with several of my friends we went into a...

Any Gum Chum: Childhood Memories of Bushy Park

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

Growing Up in East London During World War 2

And the sticky tape stopped the windows from shattering with the bomb blast. Later in the day, my mum found...

Four years in Blitz - evacuated at 13

I came from an environment where, meat, sugar, bread, butter, milk, was all very strictly rationed, and...

As I Remember as a Boy in Bomb Alley

Night after night the German bombers came over, their targets being the Woolwich Arsenal and the docks, we...

The Conkering Hero: Conkers in Bushy Park

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

A Teenager in the War: Finchley

He took a job as Manager of the banana ripening rooms of Fyffes Bananas, firstly at Newport, Monmouthshire,...

Any Gum Chum?

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

Evacuation from London to Surrey

I returned to Surrey staying with Mrs Rayner and her two daughters who were from London and renting the...

A Big Family's War

When the air raid siren went off during the day the teacher would instruct the children in times tables or...

Mrs Saunders and Me

Just outside our station was a green grocer's run by an elderly lady, Mrs Saunders - Old Mother...

The Mark of Zorro: Buzz Bombs and Near Misses in Ealing

Between me sleeping through separate blitzes and being excited out of bed by a maverick buzz bomb in very...

Jean Brace- Living Through the Blitz

Because she disliked using the small air raid shelter in the garden Jean usually hid in the cellar or under...

Wartime Schooldays

What had happened was that a small bomb had dropped outside a house nearly opposite and blown the front off...

When Will It End...

During the raids he woudl play with his brother and sister to the park but when the bombs started had to...

Blitz On the Elephant and Castle

First of all Friday evening a bomb dropped on the Elephant, Rockingham Court got most of it but haven't...

The Day I Was Buried Alive

We lived in Cleves Road named after one of Henry VIII's wives as were all the roads around us, e.g....

Joining the Territorial Army

Our job was to go down to Surrey and Commercial Docks and to escort the crew off a German ship to the...

Through the Eyes of a Child

Although I was too young to feel frightened of what was happening around me in London, clearly my parents...