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A Dog Never Forgets

The collie dog we had, used to join us and watched us intently as we collected all the cushions for our...

Memories of the Early 1940's.

My two uncles, Les and Harry Norgrove, who also lived at Manchester Road - were members of the Home Guard...

5 Shillings for the War Effort

We were on the farm in the St Johns area and money was extremely scarse and across the valley was a...

Dunkirk

We were going along this country lane in Cheshire — there was this group of men and his friend...

Fat Baby

Lord Haw Haw had said on the radio that everyone in Britain was starving and the babies were...

Clowne Photographs No. 9

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

Spare Parts for Submarines

My father volunteered for the navy but was turned down beacuse of poor eyesight. It was only years later,...

A War Story

This is the story of a little girl whose father was in the war. It was not long before the little girl...

Risking the bombs to come back to Hull

For some of the war we left Hull and we went to my dad's brothers in West Hartlepool... I wanted to be...

Keeping the aircraft fighting

My mother was stationed at ringway aerodrome her main occupation was working on Lancaster bombers at the...

Growing up in Port Erin in the War

I was born in Port Erin in 1940 and my father was a fisherman. The internees were in the boarding house or...

Wartime Apples

Auntie used to stew a big dish of apples for a sweet for tea. The apple tree is still in Burghley Lodge...

War at a Young Age

I went to work at the RAF at Stopes Brow, Lower Darwen - I was working on Bay 4 "Triggers". I met...

Shelter, Blackouts, Rationing

I had two brothers — the younger one was in the army in Germany. I remember the blackouts — the...

Grandad's Love Story

My Grandad Edward Rowles was in the 2nd. world war.He was in Germany when he met my nana in a hospital...

Great Western Arcade

I worked in the Great Western arcade as a shop assistant The arcade was bombed....

EVACUATED

It was getting late at night and we were getting very tired, we came to a big house and the lady said...

What a 10th birthday present!

The next day another party — this time in our street, Underwood Road, Cadoxton. Pipelines under the...

lively young life

Had romantic times when met up with the lads 5... Bombs dropping 10....

Gordon Blockley's memories of imminent invasion

In the Summer of 1940, when invasion was imminent, some members of the local Jewish community became very...

Josie’s Escape

In 1943, I started work as a card writer in Vickers Shipyard, Barrow; the most boring job imaginable for a...

Have you burnt the toast again?

My uncle had to apply for permits every time he wanted to visit Port Erin from the UK. We had a shoe...

Henry Doling, the engineer.

Henry Doling, the engineer. There was an underground bomb shelter, sort of like a cellar....

Mock fish and the Sailors

My cousin Joe was on a Battle Scapper in the Navy... He used to bring three home, there was one called...

Cod Liver Oil (Seven Seas)

I was born in Marfleet down Frodsham Street and lived there with Mam and Dad, Winnie, Henry, Annie and...

Accordian Band

My mother spent her war years playing bass accordian with "Freda and her accordian band"- they...