Air Raids and Other Bombing

Incendiary Bombs Fall on River Street, Stockport by Marian Ryan (nee Arrowsmith)

Mum pushed my brother into my arms and said “Get to the shelter”, then she grabbed her two...

Adelaide's Party by Rob Farley

In the cool of the morning, the shrapnel still too warm to covet for posterity, rummaging around in the...

A child’s memory - Rita Wills

My father and uncle went into the army and my aunt was given a job in the munitions factory near us, so...

Evacuation and a London Childhood

We left on the Ford Motor Company Jetty, Dagenham on the River Thames. My brothers and I handed up at...

My War Years

Mother and my sister slepy over night at the factory managers house; dad and I slept on the floor of his...

The Story of One Who Did Not Evacuate

I think Dad hoped that Mum would move out but we stayed. Her Dad was a GI and when we had no...

The War Through the Eyes of a Child

I loved being there but mother hated it and arranged for her brother to take us to her own parents in Sale,...

Personal Memories of World War 2

Margaret and I were the last two in the crocodile and when Mrs Read, the lady who had said she would take...

Malta Journal 1940-42

This is an extract dealing with his time with the RAF in Malta from a journal kept by my father, John...

Grandmama's War

My younger sister and I were lucky, because our mother came with us as an escort, but lots of children and...

WW2 Memories

I cannot remember how much longer I stayed as an evacuee in Rushden but I know I returned home to Chiswick...

It's Agony Ivy

I had no money, because every penny I possessed went to mum, but we had a lovely wedding... Mum was cooking...

London to Lakeland

The train journey I recall very clearly mainly because the carriages were so full mostly by soldiers and...

Child to Soldier

Also evacuated to the village were schools from Southampton and London, I went in with the Southampton kids...

My Childhood at Whipsnade Zoo

I was eleven years old when war broke out; my father was a resident engineer at Whipsnade Zoo and as a...

A Journey through Childhood

Mum used to tell me about her 2ozs of tea — the quota of one adult per week. I remember mum grumbling...

Whirlwind from Somerset

Even before the Battle of Britain began we boys were aware that a new and faster fighter named the...

Delphine of the Dings War - The Phoney War

On the Sussex Street side, on the pavement, under the shop window was a small trap door with a tiny room...

Letter about bombs in Bradford 1940

Jerry turned again and dropped five big bombs which scattered smaller incendiary bombs when they...

Back Home in Chingford

The German airmen used to throw out strips of tape which looked like the video tape we use today, it was...

My World War Two Experiences: the Womens' National Fire Service

Our flat in Peckham had been bombed and blasted many times, so with no windows or doors left we regretfully...

Early Signs and First Departure

Back home again in West Hull, where I lived with my mother and grandfather, they were building ugly...

Teaching in Devon and Rescue work in Birkenhead and Merseyside

The young lady teacher was was in fact a Chagford girl, who after qualifying had got a post in a London...

Teenage Fun in Wartime; then a Pilot's Wife

"Stratford was a glorious place for a teenage girl to be, with hotels full of lovely young men in blue...

What I do remember.

One day I was in a country lane with a frend when a car came a long,I think he was free wheeling...

Banging in the Night

Both Caterham and Kenley held legitimate war targets for bombers, but as always civilian property round...