Bradford and West Yorkshire

I Upped My Age To Join The Army

I was with the York and Lancaster Regiment; volunteered for the Parachute Regt and saw action in Europe......

Margaret Hepworth. My Memories

The next day everyone had a shock as the sirens went, my mother rushed my brother, sister and my niece into...

Almost A Channel Islander

My sister was also fostered out to a family in Bradford, so we were split up for most of the war years....

Childhood Memories: In Huddersfield

My brother was a Bevin Boy. Peter & Rita Harper....

Civilians in War-time

Mr Ormison went into town to a crockery shop for pint-pot mugs and to Hagenbachs, a wholesale bakery, for...

A Sky Full Of Gliders

At about 6am on the morning of the 6th June 1944,1 was travelling upstairs on a Bradford Corporation bus...

My First Childhood Memory and Saltaire Village

I was born in April 1940 and my mother, father and grandparents lived in a 2-up/2-down cottage on Jane...

Edward Lomax- The night the bomb dropped

A row of terraced houses, numbered between 72 and 82, Sunny Bank, Wakefield Road was bombed... On the night...

The Limbert Family

My brother a regular in R.A.F in 1939, was awarded the British Empire Medal for work on RADAR. My brother...

Fallen Soldier

My father Lewis was killed along with his two friends on the 2nd or 3rd March 1944 in Station Road,...

I Was Eight Years Old...

I remember how the iron railings around the school and the gardens were cut down, and that I went to fill...

Retreat to Anderson Shelter

The Germans sent down incendiary bombs to light up the munitions factories in our area but the quick...

Evacuation from Guernsey to Bradford

We locked the door, put the key on the windowsill and set off to register at the Parish Hall....

Air Raids

I was a pupil at Bingley Grammar School at the time and we all trooped round the edge of the playing fields...

A Wragby Family's Grief

Later that same year in September my second brother Charles died in a prisoner of war camp in Poland as the...

Castleford Air Raid

One of my earliest memories of life in York Street is of a commotion outside with a lot of people including...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-1948 Part 4

Helmeted and booted I made my way to the lamp room and exchanged one of my two brass tokens with my works...

Grace Westons Story: A WAAF in West Yorkshire

Both sets of Grandparents lived a mile and a half apart on Leeds Ring Road in Wortley West Yorkshire this...

Ronald Tolson Schofield-Bomb attack on Dewsbury

I left school and was advised to go to night school, which was Eastborough School, Leeds Road, Dewsbury......

Life on the Home Front

We went to South Elmsall Hall to do the training which was done by trainers from the regular army....

The Air-raid, the Doodle-Bug and the Burnt Table

What she didn't realise was that a red-hot cinder was stuck to the underside of the pan....

VJ DAY 1945

In August 1945 I was six weeks away from my 12th birthday.I had always been aware of the war in Europe but...

A Housewife Remembers

These recollections were written by her niece Mrs Dorothy Stenner. The most vivid memory my aunt has of...

Sad News

Sunday morning 8 February I was standing on the front steps of the club which was my home, and I saw a...

A Death and Birth in 1942

The month of March in 1942 saw great sadness and a little joy for our family for on March 11th my cousin...

A Wartime Baby: In West Yorkshire

My dad was called up into the army soon after and my memories of him during the war are of kissing a...