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Clowne Photographs No. 4

Photographs of the VE Day Celebrations at Creswell Road, Clowne, Derbyshire. I remember these photographs...

My Brothers Burma

My brother joined the Royal Leicestershire regiment at the outbreak of war. He went to the Far East and was...

A Leg at Each Corner

We had a great many evacuees in the town from the Channel Islands which was very stressful for the children...

Booby Trapped

My Dad was in the front line field ambulance in Italy during the war, picking up the injured. He had to be...

The Moving Food!

I went with knife, fork, plate and mug to get my Christmas dinner. I'm thinking on the way: “Will...

The Mirus Battery

And it was a huge hole, and there's these steel rods, and you'd see them on the lorries, trailing...

Having a baby during the war

Woolworths sold items that cost no more than 6 pence saucepans etc, 3 pence for broken biscuits. I remember...

Sending sweet rations to Germany for christmas.

Christmas 1946, just after the war, I was six years old and there was a huge national campaign throughout...

Frozen Joy

You couldn't get ice-cream but in Glasgow you had 'frozen joy'. I never knew the difference...

A happy story - back to normal for Norman

Our bread and cakes were delivered by Norman Ford, with his horse and cart....

Beaches covered in Barbed wire

I come from Yorkshire, a village called Cottingham just outside of Hull. When I was a child of 5, my father...

Shelter Memories

In 1940 when I was five, on a Saturday night, coming home from Gran's, on the last bus, the siren went...

Glorious Gasmasks

You took your gasmask with you absolutely everywhere. I remember mine was in a navy blue case with leather...

Obtaining Food

Many a day he would return, from checking the signals and the men, with a hare or chicken and even a pig...

Fish Supper for a soldier

As I was buying a fish supper for one of the soldiers my father appeared, it was dark by then, to see...

Celebrations Tinged with Sadness

We danced, and did the Congo all the way down Holloway Road. My boyfriend had a motorocycle with a sidecar,...

Meeting Dad

I'll never forget my father returning from the war to our home in East Peckham in Kent. THIS MEMORY HAS...

How Bill saved the horses at Carter Pattersons

My grandfather and his brother had come to find work in London, from Stiffkey in Norfolk, 2 of 11 children,...

Potatoes from Jersey and a new baby daughter.

Potatoes from Jersey and a new baby daughter. She managed to embark on the last boat to leave Jersey before...

A G.I. Picked the Wrong Man

We had a large number of Americans in camps around the town and one evening as I left the cinema with my...

Les Oeufs

He sent one of his men, who spoke no French to ask for 'les oeufs'. Off he went and found the...

Travels from Russia

Her elder brother and twin brother survived - in fact her twin brother remained in the family house until a...

Memories of Doris

We were there for 2 years and then moved to Leicester — from then on we had another 4 children... I...

Jobs during the war

I worked at Wrights and Dobsons working with lace, but remember having to make blinds for peoples windows,...

Sad day on HMS Royal Oak

Our family were great friends with the Brighton comedian Max Miller - who I later knew for 28 years. Max...

Birth in a Bomb Blast

I was involved in the uprising in Borneo and also served in South Arabia — and have received campaign...