South East Wales

Three Nights Blitz on Swansea

We at this time were having numerous raids over Swansea, and the surrounding areas but these were nothing...

Rosy gives Toerag goodbye--e: Childhood memories in Newport

Men and Machines at various times through daytime and night made their journey to the Newport Docks down...

Coming Home during an Air Raid

Many people also felt that when Swansea suffered bombing raids the Fire Service attended businesses in the...

Incendiary Raid -Newport, Maesglas, Gwent

Also during this raid the house three doors away from Author had a direct hit with an incendiary bomb on...

A Wartime Childhood

My father who was a toolmaker for the local Ordinance factory was in a reserved occupation, but under the...

Peter Jackson Chepstow Memories

After a while, and in due course, subsequent to a visit from Birmingham by their widowed mother, Evelyn and...

Dorothy Hallett's Story

Between 1938 and 1943 we lived - first of all - in the Gardener's Cottage at Boughspring House and then...

George Lane

You know it was pitch hay by the pikefork, no balers, no mechanical things that or go and hoe between the...

The Bombing of Cardiff

These buckets of sand were the only means they had of extinguishing incendiary bombs which landed on top of...

A Wartime Childhood: In Briton Ferry, Neath

The sky was ablaze, the woods at Briton Ferry were lit up like a beacon, which no doubt they were for the...

Maud Arnold. Chepstow Memories

Father was called up by the Admiralty and travelled to Newport every day by bus, where he worked in...

Second World War Evacuation of Children – September 1939:Birmingham to Abergavenny

My brother and I walked into Abergavenny from our village to meet the train she was arriving on... My...

Memories of Cardiff bombing raids

One particular night the beginning of January — my cousin's birthday - it was about 2nd January...

Boyhood Wartime Adventures by Donald Phillips

My brother Jack and I were evacuated to Sittingbourne, which was 8 miles nearer the enemy! My mother was...

Mavis Bryant's story

We used to go to dances in what is now the Senior Citizens, used to be the Public Hall... There was a...

Brian Grassby's Story

They had some on the Racecourse, I think they were Indians, used to be in the Racecourse place. They used...

Just Another Family

To the left of the Bride is her older brother; her older Sister stands on the extreme left as Matron of...

My Early Memories

As we grew older my sister and I would go to the local cinema, there was always a special children's...

Evacuation Memories: From Kent to South Wales.

Tearful Mothers saw us off at Strood Railway Station, the start of what seemed an endless journey to South...

Memories of Evacuation and Wartime: In South Wales and Birmingham

Finally I was taken by a lady, a Mrs. Williams, who it turned out had two sons of her own....

Evacuation

Iwas evacuated twice during the war,we were in Devon the first time,which i dont remember as i was only a...

Happy Times: An Evacuation to Weston-Super-Mare

Rosie and I travelled back to Paddington on our own, I don't remember much about Christmas at home, but...

Memories of WW2 in Swansea

We lived in the centre of the town just by the library and police station, I can remember my Dad, coming...

Joining Up Enthusiasm, Cardiff, 1939

In the middle of the feature film a notice was flashed on the screen requiring all Territorials and...

Extracts from a Diary of a 14 year old in W.W.2

Her two sisters Pat and Sylvia met us in Paddington Station and took us on another train to Burnt Mill. Mon...

In 1939 I Was a Happy Child: Effects of the Bombing in London, and Some Near Misses

Then the air raids started and my younger sister, Mum and I, used to go into our neighbour's house...