Hertfordshire

The War Years: Memories of Inter Services Research Bureau

The British Army was sent to France to defend against the expected German invasion but for months nothing...

My war

We moved to Welwyn Garden City- Dad took over the Optical practice of Mr. Musson, who apparently had an...

Wartime Memories, East Ham and Herts

My friend and I both worked for the insurance side of the business when I was not on audit and we girls...

A Victim of the Blitz

A so-called Doodlebug landed on my home, destroying everything that I owned and uprooting the Anderson...

To England with the Kindertransport

The translation of the caption in the German Newspaper that Willy sent, reads approximately: 'The...

My Dad's Army - the Garston Platoon of the Home Guard

The fictitious events portrayed in the Dad's Army TV series bear an uncanny similarity to those of real...

Memories of a Hertfordshire Childhood in Wartime

As soon as the bombing started, he was sent to keep the telephone exchanges working - to Liverpool,...

Jaywick: Family Life in Hitchin

When Edith had recovered and discharged it was felt prudent that David should remain at Briar Patch for a...

Protecting the Pansies

My Mother joined the Land Army during the war, and was sent to grow vegetables on what had been the playing...

Landmine on a Sunday Afternoon, Tring

By Mary Slack: One Sunday afternoon during the war, my brother and I were playing camping in the bedroom...

A Teenager's Evacuation Experience

Fifty or so tanned and happy boys crowded onto the train to Waterloo Station London, many of them with tins...

Remembering the 40s - before and during the war

Land-mine descends on parachute, settles on a hedge in the village, fails to explode, Royal Navy Bomb...

WW2 Experiences of a Hertfordshire Schoolboy

Most of the shrapnel was steel fragments from anti-aircraft shells but there were all sorts of bits of...

The Richards Family 1940-45

My sister Sheila Kathleen was married to Ronald Charles Turner, pharmacist, at St Nicholas Parish Church,...

One Woman's Memories

MAKING FRIENDS Evacuees started to arrive from Southampton and Portsmouth and quite a number found their...

Maggie Fink Childhood Memories -Part 2

Probably not, thinking about it, and if you kept chickens you weren't allowed eggs, because you got...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 2)

I had to pick up a bundle of small brass rods which were to go to Manchester, and then, before setting off,...

Women's Land Army — Sept. 1939 - Dec. 1942

Next morning it was up early to start in the cowshed at 6.00 a.m. and learn to milk - not with a...

A Flyer's Story

When being trained by Flying Officer Kelsey at Hatfield, he often used to ask pupils to practice a forced...

Why the 'Y' Service?

Incarcerated in silent Set Room, shut out from the world behind wireless headphones, we listened for...

Memories of WW2 Schoolboy in Bushey

I recall rushing to the window along with many other boys to see this armada of aircraft flying past,...

War Memories of a Young Boy Living in East Sussex

Whilst there I have memories of taking a 'go-cart' up to Hastings Railway Station yard where we...

Wartime Memories as a Child - WW2

Our larder would have seemed empty to my children and grandchildren because they would have seen nothing...

Memories of Evacuation in WW2

All boys and teachers of our South London Grammar School were packed into a special train whose destination...

My Memories as a Warden.

There were Large, Medium and Small, also a Mickey Mouse one for the kiddies, and a cot one for babes in...

WW2 Memories

I cannot remember how much longer I stayed as an evacuee in Rushden but I know I returned home to Chiswick...