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Betty Bevan WAAF tales from a Pontardawe Girl in London

Betty was lucky to see many of the films and plays on in London at the time. Ivy was a cockney Londoner...

My Childhood War Years

Unfortunately, my brother had the sandwiches that mum had made for us and we were put into different...

Doodlebug!

The bomb had landed in our road, demolishing the dairy, my Auntie Lill's and my grandmother's...

I was an Evacuee

A tall woman came to collect four of us, she was the Doctor's daughter, she delivered two children to a...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 4 - Evacuated, then back to the Blitz again

There was mum, Ron Beryl, David and myself. They could not always get back home quickly and I was left to...

The Blitz on Mile End

His brothers served in the Army and RAF and had various intersting stories, but this story concerns the...

The Harris Family:Evacuated to Northampton

There were seven of us children and Mum; Derek was still a baby We took the train to Northampton... Joan...

From Sea to Air

I then joined the RAF as aircrew and did my ITW at Aberswyth, Grading School at Coventry flying Tiger...

Those Time-Bombs

But before we got that, after the first few months of the blitz we slept in the London underground, usually...

A Young Supply Teacher in Wartime

That was called an Intending Teachers’ Award and in the weeks before I was due to start my new...

My Dad's War: Posted to Rhodesia

Dad was a machinist at the JAP engine factory until the depression and after nine months unemployment...

Wartime Memories of East London and Essex

I was born in East Ham in April 1940 at the home of my grandmother, and although my parents at that time...

Evacuation as a Child in WW2

I was evacuated in September 1939 with an older brother and a younger sister to Hassocks in Sussex. We were...

Journey through the Blitz

The Morrish dog did not care for Ib and the Morrish child did not care for anybody... At almost-empty...

No Blitz, No Me and My Uncle, the Bevan Boy

With the ferocity of the London Blitz, my grandmother and her children were evacuated to the West Midlands,...

Dodging the Bombs

However, the government commandeered parts of the factory in 1939 and we began to manufacture smoke bombs,...

Growing Up in Wartime: Evacuated to Folkestone

Here we slept most nights in basic wooden bunk beds with hot drinks served from a thermos.When the interior...

Headless Chickens

I lived at Perivale in the district of Ealing, which was on the west side of London, and the first bombs to...

A Wren's Experience

We had to keep the transmitters, receivers and photographic equipment in good order so that the operators,...

Was he the First British Civilian Casualty of World War 2?

There were several entrances to the cellar and a number of us that included eric nutcher made our way to...

Growing up

I was evacuated on the 16th September, my mum's birthday, to Bedford, Kimbolton Road for one year and...

Bomber Crew Training - Letters Home

My uncle, Charles Davies, joined the RAF in 1941 as an 18 year old from Liverpool, for pilot training....

The Bombing Starts 1940 - Diana Harding nee Major.

My mother and young brother decided they would brave it out in London, in The Dock Area hoping that nothing...

Work and Weddings during the War - Ada Thomas

I was working at a tin box factory, for the first few months there was nothing, things went on as usual...

The Pub Got It Last Night

We stayed for a while with relatives then mum, brother and I went to Redruth in Cornwall to stay in another...

WAR-TORN PENGE (London S.E. 20)

Neighbours included Walpole, Rice, Lake Saxby, Homewood, Pink, Sharp, Leigh, Hinton, Kettlety, Scrivens,...