Essex

Life at Hill Farm: Part 2

I remember it well on a Friday morning , I was doing the bedroon, hearing a rumble in the sky, the Huns...

Italian Prisoners and the American Army

At some point a prisoner of war camp was established there for Italian prisoners, who were sent out to work...

Suffer The Little Children

She and her younger sister Margaret were among those children evacuated to the seaside town of Walton on...

The Story of an Evacuee

In the meantime I had passed the 'scholarship' for the Southen High School for Girls, which had...

A Child in the Battle of Britain

After a short while in Gestingthorpe with a straw bale shelter behind the church, we found to our dismay...

A Schoolboy's Brush with a V1 and V2: In Essex.

During the Summer holidays a number of us had gone to work on a farm at Paglesham, a few miles from...

Memories of Coggeshall as a Schoolboy

When the USAF came to Earls Colne we saw a khaki invasion of Coggeshall of over 3000 airmen — more...

My Memories of Wickford During the War

Wickford Broadway was one mass of incendiary bombs. In 1940, my two cousins and I were sleeping downstairs...

'I'd Rather be Bombed than Evacuated': My Wartime Experiences by Marie Wagstaff

I lived in Stratford, London and ended up going to Stanway near Colchester, to Wales and to Yorkshire. I...

Tragedy - V1 Rocket Attack on Barking

The husband always went down into their Anderson Shelter during air-raids, but his wife and daughter did...

Bombs I remember: Ilford in Essex

One day in August, I remember it very clearly because it was my birthday, the warning went and my mum and I...

As A Child in the War in Ilford Essex

There I remember hearing the droning of planes, the booming of the anti aircraft guns in Barking park and...

Dodging

A few years later, after the war, we kicked around at football in the village playing field.Nearby at...

Evacuation 1939: From Southend to London to Meppershall

Immediately we returned to our accomodation and while dad and my elder brother settled with the landladay...

Polishing Coffins as an Evacuee by Olive Cole

Evacuee children went on some days and the village children on others....

WW2 Memories

Uncle George and Dad had installed an Anderson shelter in our garden, to which my Grandmother, would come,...

A Child's Eye View: Scared in Canning Town

The shelter being erected in the small back garden in Canning Town where my mum and dad and little sister...

Young War Memories

I can remember workman arriving at our house and digging a trench accross our garden and next doors garden...

From White Hart Lane to Sandford Mill.

I thnk we were transported down to Great Baddow in a car and eventually to 5 Sandford Mill Cottages to stay...

Wartime Memories

A couple chose myself, my sister and a friend, and my brother and another boy were billeted across the...

Great Baddow Craters and Air Raid Shelters

Colleen Yaxley — The Great Baddow Craters I recall a bomb dropping near New Road in Great Baddow,...

From Southend to a Nottinghamshire Pit Village

Mansfield Woodhouse was a village on the Nottinghamshire coalfield and the father of the family she lived...

Teenager in the War (12 - 18 years)

Although I went to a friends Uncle when I was evacuated, I was sent to a fee paying Grammar School, where...

Everyday Life in Laindon

We moved down to Laindon from London in 1929 and lived where the Southfields is but they wanted to build...

Harwich Home Guard

The German prisoners there used to be marched up through the town to the Church for services. One final...

Life as an Evacuee in North Wales by Mr D J Waller

I was evacuated with my brother in 1944 from Hornchurch to Pen-y-cae, near Wrexham in North Wales. When we...