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Guns, Bombs and Rhubarb and Custard

On the 27th September, 1940 a Messerschmidt 110 was brought down at the back of Hamlin's Mill in Mill...

The View from the Van

From that point, there was a view right across Rushden, and from the van roof I was able to see every bomb...

WW2 Memories of Joyce Bickford (nee Wright)

Thank goodness we didn't as German bombers on their way back from a raid on London bombed the cinema in...

"Playtime"

I was about six years old when I was told at Kennel Gates that my parents home in Girdar Road in New...

It Passed Me By (Part One)

For example, when I was 15 and the war was over, I went with friends to see a Sonja Heine film... When,...

a schoolgirl remembers

I went by train from Audlem Station to Nantwich... Visiting from Audlem was difficult with the shortage of...

On the land in Wartime

My sisters were still at school, two of my brothers and I worked in the market garden, and one brother was...

Lack of fear and colour

I suppose I would not have known if it were not for the general shortage of goods which meant the...

Aunty Flo to the Rescue in Wales

My Mum was doing a milk round in London, my Dad was a shoe repairer with poor eyesight that barred him from...

The Egg Custard or a Lucky Coincidence

Our family consisted of my dad George, my mum Rene, my elder sister Muriel, and I am Roy who had his 5th...

Barbara Hewitson's Story

When I was 5 or 6 we lived in Ashford in Kent, but came north to Burnley in Lancashire to escape the...

From London to Yorkshire

It was in 1942 and I was only about 7 years old, I was sent off to Barnsley, in Yorkshire, with the...

EVACUATED

The three children who came with Grandad were Bob Olph Jean, so Bob had to come with me. The only thing was...

The King and Queen Pass through Woodchurch

From it emerged the King, the Queen and Winston Churchill... The car drove off with Winston Churchill in...

Land Army days in Wales

So I joined the Land Army and was sent to Abergavenny on a farm which was up the mountain away from all...

french oral on VE day

September 3 1939, the day war broke out, to quote the then well known comedian Rob Wilson, I was sitting in...

Probably A Near Miss

Travelling to Cheddar and back every day proved too difficult, so we moved our holiday caravan there and...

From Ireland to Nottingham

When VE day came me and my friend Johnny O'Brien made the biggest bonfires Nottingham ever had....

My war

My father realized that they were from ‘white balls’ in the sky and we went up to my back...

An Evacuee's Tale

My brother and I, aged 5 and 9 respectively, were standing at Gateshead station, on the platform with many...

The Blitz in Chesterfield

The girl was very thin and frail and went to school with me, whilst the boy was bout 4 years younger. I...

Ideal Parents for an Evacuee

A Boy During the War

I'm 78 and I went to school in Handsworth I was evacuated with the school in late 1939 to Stourport......

Lancasters

My mum, dad and I were at the caravan just outside the village of Dungworth, on the north-west corner of...

Memories of Wartime Ancoats

Dad Bailey was the lock keeper for the Rochdale Canal and he built our air raid shelter under the bridge in...

september 1939

We didnt stay for long, my mother got a house in the suberbs, and I returned to Birmingham.I started at...