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People's War Day, 27 May 2005, Old Whittington Library

Inside the Swanwick Memorial Hall the Chesterfield Museum made a 'touch and feel' display of gas...

interesting

They sent down a diver and eventually they pulled the bomb out of the bottom where it had landed in the...

The Life Of a Young Child In WWII

German planes flew over our house in attempts to bomb the Linfield Mill and the G.N.R. which ran along the...

Childhood in Leamington Spa

We went originally to Coventry, and had been hoping that my aunt might have taken us in. Eventually my...

MEMORIES OF WAR THROUGH A CHILDS EYES ( MUMS WAR EFFORT)

My dear old Mum had Son's and daughter's in the; Army, Navy, A.T.S. and Munitions and later a Son...

Doreen Gordon nee Taylor

During the War the ‘Airborne‘ were billeted in Bulford Village, Salisbury Plain, which was my...

How we survived

I went to Stevenage Waldock Farm and thoroughly enjoyed it, seeing as I had come from a tenement house in...

They were talking out of the iwndow when...

One evening Allan Bullock's Grandma was leaning out of her upstairs window talking to a neighbour...

Chocolate Mouse in Our Shelter

At the beginning of the war when air-raid shelters for homes were distributed, my family elected for an...

So many memories

I was singing in a show for Canadian Legion. The audience was most appreciative. We heard planes and...

Prisoner of War helps out on farm

We lived on Anglesey in a village called Llangritiolus - in Welsh - Anglesey is Ynys Mon and Ynys Mon, and...

Fragments Remembered.

The engine would be entering Ilkeston Junction as the Guard`s Van came out of Shipley Boat Station......

War storeys From Peter Charlie Smith

I used to live in number 80 Marconi road also and they used to have a balloon protecting Marconis and...

War Time Tragedy in London

As Stella and her baby brother were returning home, an unexpected German Aircraft managed to get through....

welsh ham and eggs gave dad boils on his neck

My dad who was in the Cheshire Regiment came to see us once in Wales when he was on leave before he...

Wartime Memories of a Northallerton Schoolgirl

How we all mingled young and old alike from young babies to Grans and Grandads....

Childhood memories of the war time

During the rationing, Mum used to give us banana sandwiches, which were in fact, cooked parsnips with...

Life on the edge of Leeds

Alice and Edith are two friends who lived in the Seacroft area during the war. Edith's father worked as...

Hannah Whitehead's Story

We used to have to go to the top of the building into what was known as the ‘Crow's Nest’...

German Plane in Mangold Field

A Junkers 88 crashed into a field of mangolds at Upcott Farm, Beaford, North Devon, owned by a gentleman...

Ted Smith — A Stranger’s Return

I remember one afternoon after VJ day in 1946, I was sitting in the kitchen having a meal when the door...

Mind the Doors!

Early that morning loud-speaker vehicles came round stating that various roads had to be evacuated and all...

Tin Hats and Toy Guns

What happened to the German prisoners ? and the Land Girls , and the merchant navy chap, and the lads on...

A Bonfire over Bromyard by Gordon Sharrard

In 1940 when I was 12, I won 'The Challenge' scholarship - and left my Lincoln Grammar School for...

CHILDREN IN THE WAR IN NORTHWEST LONDON.

Interview with Eric Murket by Henriette Wood Grossenbacher. In doing so we used to man these ships with...

An Evacuee to Guildford

Having spent 6 months as an evacuee in Reading I was awarded a Technical Scholarship at the Wandsworth...