Buckinghamshire

Summer,1940

. For some reason best known to themselves the Germans started shelling Worthing, so we 12 kids, plus the...

Life in a Manor House

I was taken with a few other children to the big manor house in Wadden. When I found some left over food...

The Boys Club Movement

The club conformed to the principles and aims of the National Association of Boys’ Clubs, whose...

Schoolgirl memories

However, in the days that followed it appeared that the Germans were sending a new horror to London in the...

The Party

I was finally stationed in High Wycombe Bomber Command Headquarters as a waitress in the Officers Mess......

Takng in Refugees

The oldest boy, Ronnie, was very plain looking, but he turned out to be a cracking little boy –...

Memories of Land Army Girl, Mary McGivern

I travelled down from Manchester to Buckinghamshire with a few other girls I met at the station....

No More Chicken Necks: Evacuated to Chalfont St Peter

We were put upon a train and taken to Gerrards Cross Station and then by bus to Chalfont St Peter, where we...

A Welsh Girl’s Perspective: Part 4

Jobs were in short supply, the housing situation was desperate, food stayed on ration for quite a while,...

One Big Bang!

My father kept pigs on the edge of a huge field which was part of the family land adjacent to our orchard...

Denis Whelan - His Association with Bletchley Park

In May 1942 I was called for an interview at the Forgein Office and, as a result, received notice of...

Wartime - Bletchley Park WAAF 1942 - 47.

After 10 weeks training at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, I was a teleprinter operator and at first posted to...

Hunting for Souvenirs

I remember that a Spitfire crashed in the Chiltern Hills in the autumn of 1944, The hills in that part of...

My Experiences of the War - An Evacuees Story

We were evacuated to Hassocks near Brighton. We all got evacuated to a place called Blechley near Milton...

A Year at Bletchley Park

We had the BBC located in Bedford with wonderful concerts including Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony...

John Goes to Jordan's

We had identification pinned on the back of our jackets. A small rucksack contained the bare essentials of clothing and cheese and a packet of Jacob's biscuits...

Canadian Surprise!

Something was up, and the Sherman tanks and army lorries with silent soldiers in the back rolled past the...

The Lost Pilot

He was wearing an army officers uniform, I cannot recall his rank, but I distinctly remember he had the...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 51

Next we were taken along to some aircraft hanger where to our surprise, some very kind W.A.A.F.personnel...

Serving with the ATS by "Terry"

Anyway despite all this, I responded to an advert in a local journal asking for volunteers to join the ATS,...

Life as an evacuee

Prior to the start of the war we had lived in Toronto Road, Tilbury but the house was uninhabitable after...

'The last conversation'

Unfortunatley he never got the opportunity to give me his medals or the photo as two weeks later he died......

Memories of Bletchley Park

I was posted to Bletchley Park How exciting!...

And He Told Me He Messed About With Chemicals

I mess around with chemical like this," he replied in his soft Canadian brogue... Some years later I...

Jean, The Evacuee

I went to Aylesbury Grammar School and watched the Blitz on London from there... We celebrated VE and VJ...

My Early Recollections of Evacuation from London to Olney, Buckinghamshire

I remember as a 4yr old child being put on a train in London. I had a small label tied to my...