Oxfordshire

A Mother's Pride

In 1939, myself, one brother and two sisters were evaquated, because of the war, from Bow, in London, to...

From a Guttersnipe to a Country Bumpkin

The guttersnipe had turned into a country bumpkin....

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...

Found But Not Lost

On June 6th 1987 the anniversary of 'D' Day, I drove the restored motorcycle back to the Broadwell...

Evacuees

After arriving in Chipping Norton, we went into a big hall, and we were allotted out to prospective foster...

The Real Struggles

At the precise moment when mum was reading about a bomb dropping in Granny's bedroom, our own house...

Life in the ATS

A corporal met me at Portsmouth station and took me to 213 battery gun site on the Portsdown hills... When...

A Day to Remember

He was very impressed and then said that King George Vl was due to arrive at any moment for an inspection...

County Regiment Ceremonial

The candles were lit and the Port and cigars were passed around the table... If the Colonel was happy with...

Memories of War Time in Oxford

Then the office staff were moved from St Johns college to the Clarendon Hotel in Cornmarket Street... The...

Evacuation Wanderings: London, Oxford and Devon

I stayed in Devon until the autumn and did six weeks Barnstaple Grammar School in the sixth form, doing a...

Police Service in Wartime

We manned telephone switchboard and it took down reports from other police forces and Scotland Yard and to...

Reminiscences from a Country Town in North Oxfordshire

My father and mother spent the war years at the market town of Banbury in Oxfordshire. My father had a...

The Return of White Russians and a Chicken in War

As war was being declared German engineers were installing extrusion presses in the Banbury aluminum...

Joining the RAF and Training

This was followed by Elementary Flying Training School at Desford, Leicestershire learning to fly Tiger...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Doreen & Jean)

At the Corn Exchange in the town, Doreen and her brother were the last two children to be chosen. Doreen...

WAAF adventures. 1940-45

Went to Harrogate the following day, to Gran Hotel Harrogate for the WAAFs. Joined 90 squadron at Ratting...

Flyposting in Oxfordshire

He then became trained as a semi-skilled aircraft fitter and he was sent to an airfield at Burford on the...

D Day and after

In wartime some farmers had Italian PoWs placed with them aand there was one who would appear in the field...

Working at Minns' Factory, Oxford

We both left the hospital and went to work for Minns of Botley, for more money, and to be on exempt work....

A Child's Memories of Wartime Oxford by Sylvia Newton (nee Green)

A Child's Memories of Wartime Oxford by Sylvia Newton. We had just moved to a new house on top of a...

Evacuation to Oxford

I was only 5 when war broke out and, with my brothers Eric who was 7 and Gordon 11, we were evacuated...

Memories of Evacuation

The couple my sister and I stayed with in Adderbury were very elderly and didn't want evacuees, but as...

Bombing In Islington & Evacuation

Once I moved there I could have got a job with Morris Motors but decided not to becuse money was tight at...

Happy Days

In 1940 I was evacuated from Essex to a small village in Oxfordshire called Long Hanborough, fortunately...

University Life (Oxford, 1942 to 1944)

My name during the war was Anne Lowe and I began reading Modern History at Oxford University in 1942....