Hertfordshire

Colin's Evacuation Experiences

After eight weeks, when the bombing was less severe, my mother and I returned home to find that whilst we...

A Baby's War

But many things changed after September 1939: the car, a lovely black Standard 10 with a rear boot door...

Maggie Fink Childhood Memories -Part 1

Transcript of an interview with Maggie Fink nee Jones, by her grandson Luke Mottershead as part of a school...

I was in the Brownies - Part 4

It was hard to concentrate on history lessons - Mr Parker's trousers were far more fascination.He never...

Day of Heartache

With our labels on our lapels and a small suitcase each we arrived at Doncaster - a horribly dark miserable...

Hitchin in the War Years and Immediately Following

The details are remembered by the children of the O'Dell family who lived in Stevenage Road, Hitchin...

World War 2 Reminiscences

I left my job in the city of London as the office was evacuated to Hampshire, and got a post in the...

Evacuee Childhood: Put on a Coach from Hastings

My Mum and Dad had been working as a couple in a public house in North Finchley and after the funeral, my...

The Spy From The North: A Story About Eddie Chapman

It seems an unlikey tale but this was the man, Eddie Chapman who raided Odeon Cinemas in the thirties and...

Life in Hemel Hempstead during the War

Outside of school hours, these children were housed in wooden huts at Pixies Hill. The next morning we...

Ted's Big Adventure

When the first air raid warning sounded I was playing with my friend in Oxhey Park. We took refuge in a...

My War Time Childhood

She said his name was Vincent George and I argued with her saying 'His name is Christopher'....

Memories of Rickmansworth

I remember huge silver barrage balloons, close to us we went to London on the Metropolitan Railway... I...

Enemy Action over Baldock

I have seen pictures of a particularly nasty incident when a flying bomb hit a bus outside the old Adastral...

Wartime Childhood in Ringshall near Ashridge

I was eight years old when the war started, living in the hamlet of Ringshall, a mile from the village of...

Leominster air-raid siren

The siren in Leominster was at the rear of Woolworths, and my bedroom window was within yards of it. I went...

Damage from Bomb in Next Street, and Possible Later Consequences.

We lived in what I discovered later in life was a desirable three-bedroomed detached house called Earlham...

My Wartime Experience in Silvertown

It was like a yoyo, every time a bomb exploded, the door was dragged open, pulling me with it. The bombing...

A Disabled Child’s War

We used to get under the table, because there were no Anderson shelters in Welwyn Garden City —...

Experiences Of A London Boy During WW2

One day my friend and I followed the fire engines from Hammersmith to London Bridge were we watched the...

Arsenal Evacuee Memories

From Stevenage we were sent out in groups — the Arsenal group went to Codicote and assembled in the...

A Child in Wartime London

The guns were because we were surrounded by aircraft factories and nearby Hendon Airfield. As my parents...

Childhood Separation

The sinking of a large ship carrying children to Canada by a German submarine and further such passages...

Helping the Other Side

I used to go there with my best friend, Alan. who lived next door. Alan was a couple of years older than...

Evacuation: From South London to Worthing

I remember being on West Norwood, London SE, railway station, with my two brothers, one older one younger,...

The Volunteer

My young mind dwelt on the likely options and their outcome - pretty nurses featured strongly, as did...