Working Through War

A Primary Teacher's Experiences 3

At this time (1944) I was living at home in Essex, and just before Christmas, my stepmother was expecting...

Women at War - Timber Corps Girl

I would be sixteen shortly, and Dad who now worked for the Home Timber Production Dept., was sent to take...

Get Those Merlin Engines Back in the Air!

There was an advert in the Herald: “possession of cottage in exchange for a caravan” and it...

Memories of a Canal Boater [J.Peters : Part 8]

I was suddenly startled to hear echoing voices from a boat lying on the stocks' still and dark and high...

The Story of Miss Boobier (Switchboard Operator)

In Bobby's there was a Restaurant and my father played in the orchestra they use to have a cake trolley...

Bicycles, Books and Blackout [C.Hazell]

This entailed going to Grooms the newsagents in Lansdowne Road to fetch the magazines each morning and then...

Growing Up in Wartime: In Welling

My eldest brother was stationed in the Shetlands during the blitz and when he came home on leave was...

My Memoirs by Brenda

My dad said, “I will put a couple of bunk beds in the shelter for the kids and a mattress on the...

Wartime Activities 1939-1945 of Peter Ascott

This crew member, 22 years old P/O Jack Flemming RAAF landed in a field on Newpark Farm The farmer and his...

Farm Life and an Army Cadets' Experiences

We had to take the books out to the car for en to check, and he said 'I can see you're honest'...

Being 18 Years Old in 1939

When we first heard the word 'parachute', we associated it with what the airfield was being used...

John Florida

There was one very nice wedding where the daughter of a DASO, that's a Deputy Armaments Supply Officer,...

from schoolboy to shunter - Part Two Working on the main land

I heard that the invasion of Europe had started and turned up at the yard to find they were looking for...

Memories of the War Years: A Biographical Account

On 20 November 1940, I was in the Star Hotel when the building next door took a direct hit from a bomb....

Memories of a Young Girl Working in WW2

On the morning of our wedding, I was up at 5 a.m. helping to cut the sandwiches and mid-morning I had to...

FRANCIS GEORGE CARTER HEATH

Elizabeth Donald and Francis George Heath met when Liz was only sweet 16 and Frank 18 years. Liz wore White...

My Teenage War Years:Growing-Up Years : In London, Farnham and Devon

To get back to Farnham on this particular evening, the first part of the journey required travelling by...

Teenage Memories of World War Two

By an ironic twist of fate, and a year later, I stood in a busy London street on the periphery of Shepherds...

Teenage Memories of WW2: Work and the London Blitz

By an ironic twist of fate, and a year later, I stood in a busy London street on the periphery of Shepherds...

A Close Call with a Buzz Bomb !

Mum and I went to London after the Blitz, even then night and day bombing was daily. Mum and I went to...

Eileen Couch's Story -Part 2

Voluntary Organisations then in 1941 Harold Morris started the Army Cadet Corp in Chepstow. Harold Morris...

A Rural Child Touched by War: Part Two (1943 - 1945)

My father replied to an advertisement for an experienced horseman for a farm at Aldbrough St John, a small...

Growing up in WW2

On my first day I was stopped at the entrance by a factory policeman who asked me for Identification once...

Memories of a Wartime Teenager Living in Hove

This I did quite easily, it was as a general junior clerk at Hove Food Office in Hove Town Hall. I can...

War Damage and Repairs

Local air raids damaged Falmouth's Wesley Church, Lister Street and the Boscawen Hotel. In fact Lister...

Evacuated, Returned, Then Blitzed.

There we were with bombers flying over head, a bomb which may explode any minute and water getting higher...