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Pat Mountfield's Kirby story

Pat Mountfield is a member of our group here in the Back to Learning class in the Unemployed Centre at...

Wartime Fairies and other stories

My father recounted to me that as Cardiff docks were undergoing one of these, the family was rushing to the...

Some Memories of the War Years

I remember my father had been at home the night of the Clydebank Blitz and he came up to my bedroom and...

Ladies Of The Land

I must have been in my early twenties when my friend and I decided to join the Land Army. I didn't go...

The 1939 War Years: The Brief Memories of a Young Child

Subsequently there were no trams or buses running, so my Mother and I walked home from Sheffield to our...

Country- Living - Water from the well and baths by the fire

As Monday was usually wash day, it was our job as children to collect wood from the local woods on Sunday,...

Homework during the war

My sister was called up to the ATS in 1942 and served with the 3rd Airborne Division as a telephone...

Return to Paradise

He stopped speaking and a wondrous peace held me still for I felt Mum's presence. Slowly I turned and...

Kathrine Comben's Newhaven WW2 memories

There was a lot of houses empty up and down Rose Walk, and they were full up with Canadian soldiers....

Evacuated — Until The Bombs Began Falling On Hull

My Brother and myself were then evacuated to Owston Ferry, on the River Trent in Lincolnshire. We arrived...

Strange People from Starnge Places

The nearby Moor Park had originally had trenches cut across across it to prevent parachute or airplane...

My War Encounters

My Dad worked in the dockyard and went to and fro every day....

A Birthday Treat to Whipsnade Zoo

In 1940 my parents took me for a birthday treat to Whipsnade zoo! I also remember watching lots of American...

A difficult journey from Guernsey to Salisbury in 1939

There wasn't a taxi, or a bus, we went to the station, the trains had stopped, we couldn't find...

A Mining Adit Bomb Shelter

Her story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. All...

Growing up During the War

On leaving school I managed to sign up with the Clayton Urban District Council surveyor as an articled...

Edward Charles GOOCH, 11 The Paddocks, Maresfield By Diana Mary Gooch

Our wedding was to be at the end of March 1944 but Ted's leave was brought forward and our Wedding Day...

Rita's Tale 2

Apparently there was an anti aircraft gun in the swimming baths at Penzance which was actually “in...

An Evacuee from Belfast

I was seven and my brother Jackie was six when we were evacuated from the Albertbridge Road in Belfast to...

Canadian visitors

One day Mum heard crying, and thinking it was my brother, she went in and found a very young and homesick...

Evacuated from Leeds

On Friday 1st September 1939 my two sisters and I were among scores of children evacuated from Holbeck to...

A Bootle evacuee

We lived next to Walton Prison which was bombed one night and we could hear from our garden the prisoners...

My Mum's story

Mum's name was Elizabeth Ashburner,known as Betty to her friends.She worked for a short time at Rootes...

The WAAF who married a Yank

There were Americans. Because I was in a flat where before I went to the house in Marston Gardens, and I...

My personal memories of World War 2

One did a lot of damage and caused deaths at Wellington College in the village. I think Broadmoor Criminal...

September 3rd 1939 - A definitive date in history, was a golden autumn day...

He had struck solid rock, but as he had business dealings with Cammel Lairds, the ship-builders, he managed...