Essex

My Life as a Schoolteacher during the War

An incendiary bomb had come through the roof, through the upstairs ceiling, through the floor of the...

Memories of a World War Two Evacuee: From Dagenham to Lowestoft

The class did not get a chance to try the patience of this new teacher as we were only with him for...

A Child's Sounds of War

I was a child during the second world war and we lived at Plaistow in East London, the house we occupied in...

2nd June 1940 Evacuation Day.

The children were: - Maureen and Joyce Rawlings, Sheila Rawlings, Pamela and Derek Monk, Dorothy and Dennis...

Gwen Brockway - Diary of an Essex Girl (part 2)

Dougie was home on a short leave that weekend and asked if he could cycle over with me to see Sandy. Dougie...

RAF Reclamation Squad

ON occasion we were stationed on USAAF 8th Army Air Force bases in Essex and Herts, and the difference, in...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: The Build Up to War

There was to be a fair in Webster's Meadow and a special marquee where our school were to have our...

The Blitz - Dagenham, September 1940 Part 1

Twice during the night - at 12 a.m. and then at 2 a.m. Gillian woke me and said "Gunfire, Mam". She...

A Child In Hospital in WW2

Ingatestone had no barrage-balloons but my older brother David once saw one on fire; drifting across...

A Wartime Childhood

One of my earliest memories is our Sunday afternoon cycle rides into the surrounding countryside - my...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: School Life

We collected souvenirs of every description, pieces of British and German aircraft, German being the most...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 9

All vehicles, primarily Commers and Austins, were to be exchanged for Bedfords to be collected from various...

An Essex Family at War

Adjacent to Hill Farm on land rented by my grandfather at Buckles Lane Farm, prior to war being declared...

One Child's War:In Essex

My mother, ten years younger than he, began her war by taking into our little house first of all evacuees...

Father and Son

In the meantime, the balloon defence at Hull had been wound down, and my father Thomas Storey, had been...

My War part 3.

it was there that i saw the first G.I.american soldiers to in this country 1000,s of them all lined up by...

Evacuation September 1939: A London Child's Good Times, Bad Times, Lowestoft and Diss

As an aside Dad̓s nickname at work was Captain after the Merchant Navy Captain FRYATT of the SS...

Hitler Doesn't Want to Kill Children

In the raid of the previous night bombs had struck the area around Chadwell Heath railway station which was...

Minesweeping in the Royal Navy

There I was interviewed and I passed the interview board and was appointed to the naval RNVR Officers...

Childhood Memories of War.

The other side of the Station was a Bomb Site — it used to be a Picture House said Mum, but the...

The Battle of Brighton and the Eve of D-Day

I was at Bradwell Bay for about four or five weeks, working on aircraft and then the Squadron was sent to...

Life at Hill Farm: Part 3

The chief news today is tha our RAF have ffor the first time since th fall of France been over to bomb...

A Kid's War

We moved yet again, this time far away up north to Buxton in Derbyshire, and there we survived the rest of...

A War Time Memory

At the same time a theatre nurse began to remove the towel from my leg... I feel indebted to the skill of...

A Child's View of the 39-45 War

At the outbreak of war, the owners of Tilegate decided to move further away from the southwest corner of...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 19: Tunis to Glasgow - October 1943

In Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, Butch met a friend of Ron Gregory's who thought it remarkable that Butch...