South West Wales

Sweet Memories

3rd September 1939; I was seven years of age, and to be evacuated with my thirteen year old sister; Joan to...

Fire Fire Everywhere

Now I turn to the horror of Pembroke Dock which was a garrison town and home for two regiments, two oil...

Lucky bus stop.

Every week we used to leave Gran's house at twenty-to-nine to walk down into Neath to get the 9.00pm...

Bomb in the garden

We were under the stairs when the bomb dropped…and this knock come to the door and they said...

School Days at Gowerton Around 1940

In and around 1940 Gowerton was, seemingly, far removed from the Second World War except for military...

My Parents and there family at war

I also went to visit them both when I was 9 & 10 When my mum & her two sisters came back...

A starry night in Swansea 1941 Part 1

The view point commanded a panoramic scene from the top of Townhill, the black sky full of stars,...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Betty & Moira)

Betty lived in Swansea during the War. After the War, Betty moved to Birmingham to work in the BSA factory....

Further to 'Gallantry Again!' (Swansea Docks and the Blitz)

On the evening of 17 January 1941, my father, Edward David Price was on duty in the docks area of Swansea...

Pembroke Dock bombings

It was one of these bombs - unexploded - that landed in a field behind the officers' quarters, opposite...

Life in a Police Station

I was born and lived in the Police Station at Pontardulais, Glamorgan. The war continued the toll of losses...

Evacuation to Llanelli and a Bomb in Edge Hill

We left in September 1940 and from then until May 1941 Merseyside was subject to extremely heavy bombing,...

Experiences during the War Years

At the age of 18 I commenced in the Council Offices,Holly Street Pontardawe,as the first Telephonist. It...

Worlds Apart

The Second World War has brought many stories of heroism both on the active front and at home, but there...

A Wartime Romance

I met Stan at my church in Salford... Although I was in the army I volunteered to do some work with the...

The Blitz on Swansea Docks

I lived in Swansea during the war with my mum, dad and two sisters, my third sister wasn't born till...

Land Army Life

Land Army Life...

Childhood Memories of the War

Then I was evacuated to Port Slade, near Brighton where I was the only child there. In London Mum used to...

Operation Jantzen

Jack entertained them with tales of a ghostly monk who roamed the tunnels between Saundersfoot and...

So Young, But What a Memory

I cannot put a date on when I was evacuated, but I do remember standing on a railway platform grasping my...

Working in the Munitions Factory

When we were 18 we had to join up but my friend didn't want to leave home, so we went to work...

Home Guard was sometimes dangerous

However, my main story takes me back to very early November,1942, when my beloved uncle,, Robert Leslie...

Miracles do happen!

I was about 3 years old and was being taken down to the beach in Saundersfoot by my Great Aunt Beatrice......

Flashy American Ties

There was a RAF station down the lane opposite our house in Swansea, and my mother put some of the RAF...

Childhood in West Wales

I was 6 years old at the outbreak of the war and living on the West Coast of Wales, I was largely...

Home and Away - Evacuated From Kensal Green to Wales

Living in Kensal Green we were not far from the railway station and next to the station was the ammunitions...