Dorset

Evacuation to Dorset - September 1939

Although we did indeed go to Dorchester, and eventually shared Dorchester High School we actually lived in...

My Return

The trees looked newly washed, the flowers in the garden seemed much brighter. the scent of honeysuckle was...

Symondsbury, Eton and the Navy

I can remember September 3rd 1939 at eleven o'clock, there was matins in Symondsbury Church, and I went...

Evacuated to North America

My memories of Lyme in the early days of the war were of soldiers training on the beach, of waves...

Bombs, ARP & Home Guard, Part 2 War Work and Rationing

And I can remember going down, when we'd raised the money for HMS Bridport, to the ceremony outside the...

Elizabeth Hazelwood

I was evacuated from London at the start of the war to Woolond in the centre of Dorset at the age of...

A London Evacuee to Dorset

One of my first memories was of being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and hauled to the...

World War 2 Plane Stories

In the FAA Museum, there is an Albacore, a really old FAA World War 2 plane, but part of that relic came...

The Effects of the War on Bridport

I and several young people - there was Tony Palmer, who was a son of the brewery in Bridport, , myself,...

Seven Years of War - Part 1

Joan, who at that time was still my fiancee, left with her family to live in Bournemouth. Thus, each...

Hard Hit

I was 11 years old when the second world war started and I lived in Southampton with my mother and father,...

Winnie's Story

Winnie and some of her friends would sneak out at lunch time under the perimeter fence to go for a walk on...

Memories of a Small Boy

Not dramatic ones, I was lucky being evacuated away from the worst of the bombing of London to my...

Memories of Poole: 1939 - 1944

It was compulsory to have nightly fire watchers on duty and workers and staff all took their turn, on this...

Wartime Holiday Continued: In Dorset

He and Amy had 2 children, Alf who was in the Navy and Mercy who was in the Womens Land Army.As the...

A Schoolboy's War in Ascot and Langton Matravers, Dorset

Studland beach was a possible place for the Germans to land if Hitler had chosen to invade us. They flew...

Ode to Ann and Harry

Now Ann was a farmer's daughter Who had lived at Church Farm all her life, But Harry, he came from the...

Poole, The Pigeon Message Service

As I was only born in june 1940 my memories of WW2 are scant but still very vivid, owing to the fact...

Memories of the War

I went to Callington first of all, which was an agricultural college, and I think it was nearly six months...

The Kerbside Soldiers, the Build-up to D-Day

In 1944 my home, with mother, stepfather and five younger siblings, was on the south coast of England at...

Bathtime

We had a dressing-up trunk full of old beaded black shawls and rustling taffeta petticoats and we would...

A Dorset Family's Memories

I was a bus conductor in the war when I was in my twenties and was on my normal route to Bournemouth....

A Young Lad in Dorset

Well, my father was in the Flying Corps in the First World War, and he was an airframe fitter at Yeovilton...

Plymouth at war

In our haste to get back home in Plymouth, we took a local bus to Totnes railway station, where we boarded...

Boscombe Memories

When the Dunkirk evacuation took place, many French troops came to Boscombe to King's Park Football...

Evacuee's letter to his Mother in London

I have got to make some more for another lady and Auntie Clara as well so do you think you could get...