Bradford and West Yorkshire

My Childhood in the War

Our parents made things for us, mothers and grandmothers knitted dolls and soft toys the men folk that were...

Schooldays in the War

I also remember the night Bradford was bombed... My best friend Margaret Walker went but I stayed in...

From the Workhouse to St Nazaire

I do remember that towards the end of the war, by which time I would be aged twelve or thirteen I was...

EVACUATION

The Church hall was to be the reception point, to feed and sleep the evacuees during the two or three days...

Memories of Country and Town During the War

My father was a prison officer at Wakefield Prison and we lived with my Granny not far away from the...

Mrs P.Evacuation memories and home: From Charlton to Huddersfield

It was 1939 when we had to wear terryfying gas masks and caused me a life long fear of suffocation, and, as...

World War 2 & Then Me - My Mum & Dad

15/11/1919 FATHER:- ARTHUR WALTER DICKENS FATHER'S OCCUPATION:- Coal Miner, ex- Army. I now have his...

My Wartime Teens

After almost a couple of years in the shop, Mam and Dad decided to move to a nice house near the park,...

I Like Butter !

One thing I do remember is I never ate butter all through the war. You see my stepfather would not eat...

My experiences in the food office and the Heavy ACK ACK

I was almost 22years old 'the day war broke out' I was working for Jackson Stops and Staffin Curzon...

Grace's story: In East Grinstead

I had been married for just a month when war was declared and very soon East Grinstead, like many other...

The True Story of the Bombing of Bradford -Part 3

LUFTWAFFE AIR RAIDS ON BRADFORD -WORLD WAR 2 I am in receipt of a letter you sent to the National Secretary...

Kathleen Bean-Things I Remember

When the siren went, she used to come to our house because our cellar was bigger- it had an arch over and...

Nursing memoirs

Red Cross and St. John's Ambulance nurses also came on the scene as well as student nurses from...

School Life in Ossett

I needed 1 gymslip, dark green, with a red girdle, 2 long sleeved cream blouses with a square neck, 2 pair...

Memories Of A Teenage Girl In WW2

They were taken to St. Lukes, Bradford Royal infirmary, Westwood and Menston. To get an ambulance ready,...

Jean Hassall-Wartime memories

My Grandma Mallinson was knocked down and killed on Bradford Road in Huddersfield by a "Queen Mary"...

Mrs. Hirst: Second World War Memories: In the WRNS

After training my friend and I were sent to a holding depot in Portsmouth, and then on to London, where we...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 7

It was in 1941 that a British Halifax bomber, returning from a desperate night raid on Germany, in an...

Wartime Experiences: Evacuation, the Luftwaffe, and Disrupted Education

Immediately following the outbreak of war and heeding government advice my mother self-evacuated my sister...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 2

The Borough's schools and town hall and other public buildings, including the Education Office, as I...

Dorothy Fisher-Childhood memories

What I do remember is when the air raid sirens used to go and we were all tucked up nice and warm...

Saw the War from a Sanatorium

But Rosie and my grandma were addicted to snuff and were friends. My Auntie Myra went to the British Legion...

Through the Eyes of an Ossett Girl

I was then a pupil at Spa Street Primary School down Baptist Lane, Spa Street, Ossett and one of my...

Frances Bush

I attended there until 1945, so after my higher school certificate, I went to teacher training college in...

Bradford by the Sea

To live in Morecambe during the war was brilliant, Bradford by the sea, people called it, there were so...