South East Wales

Margaret Bennett

I remember, but this is nothing to do with Chepstow, staying with an Aunt in Cardiff and going into the...

Leslie Johnson Chepstow memories

A bottle of milk was issued each day, one third pint and school lunch was provided at the school canteen...

Dennis Harper's Story

Looking back, Rogiet was very vulnerable since the village had the main Paddington to Wales railway line to...

Deep Duffryn

The chairman would bang the table with his gavel and call on ‘Dai Jones to give us a song’ and...

Jacqueline King

All the usual children's games “Sally sits a-weeping”, “Farmer's in his...

Dora Lawrence

He was in the garden at Mathern Palace, he was gardener's boy, and he had gone on the railway, . But I...

Underground as a Bevin Boy Part 2

I was landed with the thicker end and having negotiated the four foot passage with nothing more than a...

JOAN COLEMAN'S STORY

On the last Saturday in September 1944, we were walking into Chepstow with my brother, when an army vehicle...

Constance Benjamin Chepstow Memories

It was sensible to do, and Spence Thomas, of course his wife and children were in North Wales, but his...

My War and Evacuation Memories

Beryl and I were chosen by a Mr. & Mrs. Davis who had two older children, Alan who was in the Royal...

Recollections 1931-1947

One, Herr Deutschkron, was I believe the headmaster of a school in Germany and was a very good language...

Margaret Parker

A Midnight Service, before they all went abroad for that.. and they all had rubber soled boots, and you...

Evacuation to Grandpa's in Newport (Mon)

In the first week of September 1939, a couple of weeks after my tenth birthday, together with my parents, I...

Connie Dixon

Another thing that was at Chepstow, was in Oak Grove, do you know where Oak Grove is? It was the time that...

From Dover to Wales - An Evacuee's Memories

I remember one Christmas when Auntie and Uncle had tried everywhere to buy a chicken for Christmas Day...

Kathleen Pack

They had Land Army Girls over on Price's at Model Farm. They used to have all these Land Girls, and...

My Life During the War

When the war broke out, I was living in a Welsh village in the Rhondda Valley called Treorchy, together...

The Urchin at War

The journey was very long, stopping for other children The train gathered many on its way The urchin stood...

Childhood in Cilfynydd

My uncle Wyndham was in the Home Guards,they all marched with sticks on their shoulders instead of guns,...

Sylvia Lewis Chepstow Memories

Sylvia spent a fair bit of the war years with her widowed grandmother, who lived at West End, Earlswood....

John Cotton

I went to school in one of the huts in the old camp off Alpha Road until it moved to a new...

Evacuee Account

Eventually, I found myself in Llansadwrn, and the evacuee co-ordinator, a Mrs Dineen, billeted me with the...

Memories from Members of Astley Lunch Club, Worcestershire.

THESE ARE STORIES FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GREAT WITLEY, WORC; MALVERN; LONDON, CARDIFF; LANCASTER,...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 1...Posted

It is my opinion that Elsie was happier in the WAAF than she had ever been, at least she had all her...

A Welsh Girl’s Perspective: Part 2

When we arrived home, the raid was in full swing - there was no time to go to the Anderson Shelter in...

The Long Way Back

Having tried to protect us in the Anderson shelter, the brick built surface shelter and finally the...