Hertfordshire

Saved by Chicken Pox

Immediately after he had gone, my brother, one year older than me, a young girl who had been evacuated to...

Beginning of the war- Doodlebug.

The Doodlebugs came over, like an aeroplane, then they stopped, you counted to 9, then down they come, but...

Watching Doodlebugs

None of them landed on Stevenage but many fell in the surrounding fields....

Odd Memories

I remember girls who worked in the munitions factory - they all had yellow faces, from the sulphur, I...

People: Evacuated to Soham and Hertfordshire

Although I lived in London when war broke out, I was evacuated on three occassions.this story is about the...

cupboard under the stairs

My mother and father cleared out the cupboard under the stairs and that was where me and my mother slept......

Flying Bombs

The reason my brother and I were sent to St Joseph's boarding school at Marden Hill was to be safe from...

D-Day Memory, East Barnet, Herts

I woke up on a grey, drizzly morning and was just getting out of bed when my father -- who had already...

Fires in London

I could stand outside my house in Letchworth in Hertfordshire and we could see London burning after it had...

Sunday Cricket Match

The cricket match stopped and we all looked up into the sky....

An 8 year old's view

Memories of a child who was actually at CROFT CASTLE when it was a boarding school during the war years. On...