International Friendships

Edward Priest

Well George Watkins, Gwynne's father and George, they were in business, there were three brothers....

Sheila Kidd's Childhood War Experience

I remember when the chilren from London were evacuated my father went to the local village hall and offered...

Adventures of a Land Girl

She said well, we'll see, so eventually when I came to Stratford I was doing other work, like we would...

Any Gum Chum?

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

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...

Growing Up during the War

Another plan was put into action whereby we, the older girls each had to take two younger children out of...

Recollections of a Child on the Home Front During WW2

When I learned that Wolverhampton airport at Pendeford had been designated an elementary Flying Training...

A Small Boy's View of the US Army In Bristol

We lived in Frampton Cotterell some eight miles out of Bristol and my father would take me into the school...

Laughter Through Sadness

Sometimes we were followed from Birmingham to Kingsbury station by German planes shooting bullets. It was...

Extracts From A Land Girl's Journal

Daphne Byrne Women's Land Army They hang sheets out on the hedges and bushes to dry in the...

Americans in Our Area

Amid the many changes and innovations brought about by the war, one thing that excited great curiosity and...

My Memories Of The Second World War Years

Then my Mother got a job as a usherett at the Odeon Cinema in Sutton Coldfield. Straight from school I had...

Baby Days

Our warden couldn't find his helmet when the bombing started so my mother gave him the brass rose...

Greenock,Gourock and Clyde estuary

My maternal grand father was working at the Woolich Arsenal at the beginning of the first world war.He was...

Memories of the War in Sheffield by Mrs A. Haworth

Later in the night air raid wardens came round saying they felt the whole area was unsafe as incendiary...

A wedding breakfast

The farmer lost the right to use Land Army girls. Another different lifestyle, this time with five other...

From York Road to Ballinamallard

Christopher Johnston spoke to Eileen Wells about her thoughts on life in Belfast and as an evacuee in...

Evacuee to ATS driver

The front and back doors were blown off and my young brother was blown across the kitchen. Leslie, who was...

First, The Yanks Invaded Aintree

Eventually over sixteen thousand of them were camped there, with the racecourse turned into a vast parking...

A Somerset Boy Remembers an American Soldier

At the time Philip Sealey spent a great deal of time with his uncle and aunt, Cissie and Harry Woollan, in...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 8: Turkish Pilots - May 1944

well you see on Monday I have a laundry exam and I have to wash, starch and iron a gentleman's...

War at The Green

Mum, my sister and I were standing by the wide-open bedroom window watching Ack-ack explosions and tracer...

When the Americans came: Memories of a Young Girl in Northern Ireland by Bridget

We lived at my grandmothers, one night she said ‘Get up the Germans are bombing Derry. My uncle said...

Totnes View

They knew that my favourite Uncle ken was down there, with his wife, Aunty Em, my mother's younger...

The Jankers Queen

I was so crazy to join the W.A.A.F's, that I upped my age by one year and was called up together with...

Half a Peanut and the Japanese Landing.

The Japanese never landed but my cousin Ian thought they had... I slept through it, but my cousin Ian on a...