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ambervalley

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This is a collection of memories from the people of Amber Valley. These were all recorded as part of the 'People's War comes to Amber Valley' Project. Which was funded through Derbyshire County Council's Adult Education Service and the Derbyshire Learning and Skills Council.

The Derbyshire Adult Education Service has various centres throughout Amber Valley who have taken part in this project, these include:

Alfreton Hall Adult Community Education Centre, Alfreton.

Belper Adult Community Education Centre, Belper.

The Bridge Centre,Langley Mill.

Ironville, Derbys.

Peverel House Adult Community Education Centre, Codnor.

Derbyshire Adult Education would like to thank everyone who contributed and helped to create a legacy of memories for future generations, who, without this input would have little understanding of what life was really like during and around the second world war.

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Stories contributed by ambervalley

Memories of a Somercotes girl during the War
Memories of a Somercotes lad
Assessments and Physical Training in the Army
My work at Aristoc in Langley Mill
American "K" Ration Packs
Churchill Tanks
Returning from the War and Work
Painting Tanks Used During the Ardennes Campaign
Sheffield Bombed
Soldiers' Bath Day
"Got Any Gum Chum"
Fire Service during the war
Wonder and amazement as the war ends
Household Cavalry
A Holbrook Girl in Derby
I was One of Churchill's Geese
Making Do: Making Clothes from Blankets in Derby
My Work in the War: At an Engineering Works Near Leeds
From Kilburn to Downing Street: With the Grenadier Guards
From King Haakan to the Duke of Edinburgh
A German POW Doctor Saved My Life
Film Extra during the War
The Night We Were Bombed
A Wartime Romance
A Job To Earn Some Stripes
Rationing?
The Dunkirk Survivors in Alfreton
My Father a Miner at Bentink Colliery
A Land Girl's Lot: In Nottinghamshire
Working at BHS during the War: In Nottingham
A Land Girl's Lot
A Rare Treat: Sausages in Walthamstow
One of the First POW's
Mickey Mouse
The Russians Are Coming
Can anyone help? 243rd Kings Squadron
Onward Christian Soldiers
Soviet Commemorative Medal
243rd Kings Squadron Royal Marines
Spiders and Wrigglies
Alfreton Hall: With the RASC
The Italian Connection: Vesuvius and the RASC
Being a Mother and Wife during the War
Newlyweds in a Garrison Town: Alfreton, Derbyshire
Enjoyment and Relief: Childhood Memories of Walthamstow
The Night the Luftwaffe Bombed Alfreton: 10 April 1941
One Sailor, Four Soldiers: Family Members from Walthamstow
Getting out of London: From Walthamstow to Chelmsford
The Impressive Uniform: 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Bombers not Nightingales
A Drivers Tale In India
Recruited for National Service from Durham to Alfreton
My Brother the Hero: Killed Serving with the South Staffordshire Regiment
No Miners in the Navy
Life in Ironville during the War
Civilian Casualties at Rolls Royce and Awsworth Viaduct
The Iron Lady: Working at the Ironworks in Ironville
A Badge for Volunteering: A Miner Turned Down by the RAF
Let's Walk Down Memory Lane
A Wartime 21st Birthday: Joining the Northumberland Fusiliers
Gosforth Park Training Days: 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
A Shocking Start to the War: Service with 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
An Attempt to Join the Parachute Regiment
Riddings a Cauliflower and Confusion
My Childhood in Portsmouth
Our saviour 'the bath'
From Smiths to Rolls Royce in Derby
My Husbands War
Gas Masks with Everything
Moving From War-Torn Portsmouth to Surrey
The Bay of Japan
Air Raids and Barrage Balloons in Derby
A Premonition
Bombing of Coventry
The Bombing of the Brewerys: Burton-Upon-Trent
Our Sergeant Major: Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
A Stranger on a Train
Trouble with Smoke: Service with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Introduction to "When Bugles Call"
With the RASC to Capetown
From the Lancaster Bombers to the French Resistance
With the RASC from Capetown and Onward: To Sicily and Italy
Real aircraft and wooden aircraft
Missing in Action
My Memories of the War - Mary Burgin
My Time in France
Belgian Evacuees in Codnor
Our family shop
Maritime Royal Artillery Gunner
Sinking of a German Ship
War-time visitors to Holbrook
A Wartime Wedding
Rationing and Markeaton Park
VE Day street party June 1945
Learning the Tailor's Trade at RAF Hemswell
Lancaster Bombers 626 Squadron
S.D.M.T
My Start To The War
Don Shooter - My Story
My Cold And Hungry War
A swimming Hero
My Start To The War
Back for a rest
Celebrity Spotting During The War
Memories of Ironville
The Land Army Girl and the Airman
D-Day Memories of George Layton
A Japanese POW and the Bridge Over the River Kwai
With the 160 Field Regiment in India
When Bugles Call - Training at Chelsea Barracks
Camouflaging Aerodromes
My Evacuation Memories
Air Raids in Falmouth
Bananas
When You've Got To Go, You've Got To Go
Ack Ack Gunner Oldfield
From Bullets To Buttons
Bombing in Malta
Life At Alfreton Hall
Working with the enemy
No Body to bury
Drama Productions at Bletchley Park
When Bugles Call - Italy
When Bugles Call - Windsor Barracks
When Bugles Call - Wellington Barracks
The Fears of John Thornhill Ward - a Child from Poplars Farm, Anslow.

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