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I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which I ...Read more

A memory of Harborne in 1940 by whisky1974

Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many children ...Read more

A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by Julia Skinner

My maternal grandparents lived at Old Rectory, School Hill, Alderbury (now called Court House). They were Charles and Elizabeth Sheppard and grandad worked at Longford as, I believe, a woodsman or carpenter? I still have 3 cousins ...Read more

A memory of Alderbury in 1940 by Pamela Chaldecott

I was a boy 8 years of age when my family fled the bombing of Belfast to the small community of Cardy which is approx. 3 miles from Carrowdore on the road to Ballywalter. The year was 1940 and times were tough with worries of the war ...Read more

A memory of Carrowdore in 1940 by Joe Murphy

I was a student at Dockenfield Manor in the 1940's. Looking back, the entire faculty should have been arrested for child abuse, fraud, and a host of other charges. At the time, the Headmasters name was Dr. ...Read more

A memory of Dockenfield in 1940 by Maurice De Montfalcon

I was born and brought up in the Milton. Lived at 2 Milton Rows. I can remember going to Crossshill School. Miss Foote and Miss Page were two of the teachers. I remember well the Miners Galas, the potato picking, and what ...Read more

A memory of Crosshill in 1940 by Anne Wright

My uncle Joe Wolff was an American Soldier during WWII and spent the summer of 1942 stationed in various places in Wiltshire including Tottenham House. Although he was a private he was very ...Read more

A memory of Marlborough in 1942 by Kristin Simpson

A wealth of memories flood in: Saturday morning pictures followed by sausages from Clarkes, the Butchers made by "Uncle" Len Roblett with whom I and my brother were evacuated from London together with his wife "Aunt" Rosie ...Read more

A memory of Marlow in 1942 by Gordon Neighbour

I was a child living in a large house next to the river at Horton Chapel adjacent to a bridge. In the Second World War in 1944 prior to Normandy, a squadron of Canadian Engineers camped next to the river and built a ...Read more

A memory of Chartham in 1944 by Patrick Mc Neile

I remember visiting the island on holiday, living with my Auntie Katie, my father's sister who had remained on the island. Her two sons, Jerry and Andy, grew garden potatoes on the hill and we would sit down to a big bowl of ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 1944 by Patrick Munro