Central and Fife

War-Time Memories of a Grangemouth School-Girl

Grangemouth's Central Scotland Airport was designed for both civil and military aircraft. Just inside...

War Time Memories of a Schoolgirl

Plots of land were taken over to grow vegetables, although the Merchant Navy saw to it that we had food......

The Submarine Le Rubis

French submarines were instructed to make their way to British harbours, in particular to the submarine...

The Outbreak of War

We danced in Piccadilly, went to Trafalgar Square, all on foot, and finally ended up outside Buckingham...

Daughter's interview with her Grandfather

Yes, one day I would want to be a fighter pilot shooting down enemy bombers, another day i would have liked...

Fire in his Jacket

He was exempt from war service, because his skills as a joiner were deemed more important and he worked in...

Bombs in the Poppyfield

One dark night with not a star in the sky, we were toppled almost out of our beds by a bomb that...

The Night Our House Was Bombed

Mum, dad and myself and my brother Les, 10 years and Mike 20 months, were buried in the rubble. Les and...

Navy Larks

The Naval base was actually the Scottish submarine base, but being a woman I joined the WREN's and...

Sandy's War Memories

My family lived in Alyth for one year, then in 1939, my mother, sister and I moved to Kirriemuir, where we...

A Child in Wartime Grangemouth.

I was a child in Grangemouth in Scotland during the war... There was an RAF Station at Grangemouth, and Max...

from school to university

She went to school in the South Kirk vestry to be taught Latin and French by Peter Watson, as Webster's...

Mouswald Manse

My father, a Church of Scotland minister, had advised my mother, sister and I to stay at home and not to go...

Our Old Joanna

My Sister, Jean, was the talented one and played everything from Chopin to Three Blind Mice. Three of my...

Norwegian Army in Scotland

They stayed at the Palace hotel, where my dad's grade was Corporal in "Bergkompaniet". The...

Rabbits on the Door Knobs

Also beneath our bedroom was the heavy cedarwood kitchen door. Apparently the local rabbit catcher would...

On Being Confused (purposely) with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

It went: Harry Pollitt was a Bolshie One of Lenin's lads Till he was foully murdered by...

The Bombs Dropped on Montrose

Mrs Melville remembers the bomb dropped on Rossie Island on a Saturday afternoon, her daughter Norah had...

The Special Constable

Donald remembers that the three main groups of men stationed in and around Kirriemuir during the war were...

A Flagon of Soup

Each day brought a scramble for food to feed us all: by about eleven o'clock, mother would have his...

Snippets of a School Girl in Wartime Grangemouth

The firescreen was raffled to help to buy Our own Spitfire for the boys to fly....

From 15 to 21

Oct 1942 was awarded a State Bursary and became an undergraduate at St Andrews University studying General...

A Sea of Cabbages

That was the last time we played in the park until the war's end, as there was a grumpy old man...

A Travelling Joiner In Scotland

To begin with in Dundee, I was working for the builder, Albert Thain. Edward Farningham via Dundee Central...

The Lazy Tallies

She remembers Prisoners of War from Balharry Camp being delivered by truck to work at her father‘s...

GASMASKS

It must have been a nightmare for the teachers trying to keep gasmasks and owners together... I remember on...