Cornwall

Evacuation from Bedminster

You were taken in a private car with a milk churn on the back seat, he was Mr Lawrence, to Gloweth Villa,...

My Memories of WW2: A Child in Padstow

Another time when a soldier was discharging his rifle into the air, the bullet came through my mum and dads...

June Poole's Evacuation Memories: Bristol to Truro

I can remember going to Cheddar Grove school, at Bedminster Down, with my brother and sister... I went to...

War Snippets

Many interesting people travelled, I can remember a few i.e. Jessie Matthews, Sunny Hale, Robert Newton an...

Evacuated to Cornwall

Dad was presented with a Clock for his bravery and I have the letter he received from the Dean of St. Pauls...

Urban Legend

Off to bed, Ken boy” she said “a good night's sleep is what you need” The strangest...

The Saga of the Gloucester City

One summer afternoon a group of children from Fowey Grammar School were at Whitehouse taking part in what...

A Family at War & Evacuation to Cornwall

Joan, Raymond, John, Pat, Brenda, Evelyn, Alan and Iris. our dad worked on the railway so wasn't very...

My Evacuation

Mum packed our suitcases and we got on the coach, called the Royal Blue and headed for Grampound which is...

Evacuation to Cornwall

My mother used to cycle from Worcester Park to Claygate to work for the NAAFI and my father worked in...

A Chief of Staff's Secretary in Falmouth in the lead up to D-Day.

The Memories of 2nd Officer Kay MartinW.R.N.S. In the Spring of 1945 I was promoted to Second Officer...

From Sussex to Yorkshire via Cornwall [D.Ormsby : Part 3]

My next posting was to a small village near Otley in Yorkshire; it being around the time of Christmas. The...

Jack Turner's RAF Adventures

543221 RAF Corporal Jack Turner's wartime experiences. After a tour of 18 months Jack returned to...

Memories of Evacuation

My sister Iris and I are put to bed in a large room with at least two or three other children, but...

Thinking of Food

My aunt, however, had been trained in the methods of food preservation and so, during the weeks before...

Evacuation

Being one of a family of five plus Mum we were the last to be found a home and the Lady at...

Childish Memories in Cornwall

To me, Cornwall was ‘Safety’ - London was ‘Danger’ therefore, my memories are just...

Kath's Wartime in St Agnes

Mr Austin Tremain, the local butcher organised weekly dances in the Masonic Hall in Rosemundy... My friend...

A Wren's Experience

We had to keep the transmitters, receivers and photographic equipment in good order so that the operators,...

The War of Two Sailors part four

One week after D-Day, Emil was sent to the Channel Islands where they lived on board their boat and carried...

Donald Delves' War, Part 1 : The Bombing of Redruth - 20th March 1941

I think the German plane could not find it's target, but decided to drop it's bombs, so whilst...

My Brush with the Luftwaffe

At the same time I heard a lot of noise that sounded like stones rolling off a tin roof and saw two...

A St. Just Evacuee

There was not enough room at the village school so we used the basement of the Methodist Church. P.S. 1942...

My Memories as a Young Boy

It would never look to come indoors, but when dad put on his home guard uniform for the first time, picked...

A Gasman's memories

The locations mentioned are Gosport in Hampshire & Falmouth in Cornwall. I should mention that father...

Memories

When sewage and water was brought through Fraddon the Water Board poisoned all the wells and pumps! I think...