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These stories were submitted to the People’s War site by Louise Treloar of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team from Mrs Hilary Clarke on behalf of the Longstone Local History Group, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

These memories are taken from a special edition of a newsletter kindly submitted by Longstone Local History Group. It was edited by Liz Greenfield and published in Autumn 2002. Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although the night sky was often lit by the fires of the Sheffield Blitz.

Heather Reeves:
At the outbreak of war I was on holiday in Bangor with my parents. We came back early and my father, the Vicar of St Giles, announced the commencement of hostilities. Nothing much happened at first, and then I went to boarding school, so I was only here in the holidays. We used to go up to Miss Reece’s cottage on Spring Bank and do country dancing, using an old fashioned wind-up gramophone. My mother, who produced plays for the St Giles Players, organised an entertainment at the end of 1940 for the local spitfire fund. It consisted of recitals, piano solos and four plays, and half the proceeds went to the war weapons fund. Otherwise she helped with all the activities of the WI.

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