Cambridgeshire

My Childhood Hero

My mother's sister, Edna Belson of Peterborough, was James Nightall's fiancee at the time he died...

Nursing in Cambridge

We also met wounded prisoners, who went to the exam hall in Downing Street, Cambridge. Cambridge had...

School

We all wore pretty clothes and bonnets and danced around the Maypole, sang songs like " Oh dear little...

Wartime Reminiscences of Maude Ellwanger

We played all the big towns but my first debut was in Broadstairs followed by Brighton where my brother was...

A Family Evacuated with the Best Times in Wales by Betty Rumsey

My mother, two brothers and sister were living in North London at the time... I and Patrick went into a...

Unfortunately Some of the Men We Never Saw Again!

Because of the severe bombing I was evacuated to Guildford, Surrey where there was no bombing and as I was...

Bill Pickering - The final Hour: Pathfinder Force 35th Squadron

All our reunions were held at the Offords Clooney and Offords Darcy, just outside Huntingdon... On the...

J A Martin DFC - How a Crew Lost their Rank - LMF?

Johnny and his crew went out to the aircraft, but the crew said to Johnny, “We would like a rest...

Driving in Wartime

My Grandfather Reg Hill was a seventeen year old lorry driver when war broke out... So with poor lights and...

Devastation during the War

We then moved to 37 Ruthven Avenue, Waltham Cross in early 1940. i had to pack up work... Ruthven Avenue...

In the Women's Land Army

I was born in a village called Fordham, near Ely, in 1918, at the end of the First World War... My father...

Two Jewish Sisters Separated [J.Berq & R.Bernfeld]

The girls from Pitmans wnated to send us to Bedford, my sister did not want to go. When my sister came home...

Wartime in Cambridge

We had been living in Littleport and I arrived with my parents, Stanley and Dorothy Oakley, in Cambridge in...

The 'Hut'

She worked at Walton Library, but this central library was evacuated for a first aid post during war. She...

Doing Jobs for the Yanks

They had one woman doing their washing and always kept the same woman as they got used to the way they did...

How My Parents Avoided Hitler's Bombs

It was on its way back from Coventry where the German planes went to drop their bombs. My father was the...

War Time Child in Cambridge

Uncle Russ and Uncle Arthur worked away some of the time in munitions, so ours was a world of women......

Whittlesford Memories

My father worked at Duxford as a civilian Batman and sometime during the war he looked after Douglas Bader....

Plotting for the War: A WAAF’s Story

I was then sent to fighter command headquarters at Bentley Priory, Stanmore where I was assigned to the...

The Christmas Tree

I became conscious of a soldier walking into the kitchen, stepping over me and towards my mother, who was...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 5)

To commemorate their bravery, they were given the Freedom of Cambridge for the rest of their lives in a...

Afternoon tea

I have invited Sheila to tea on Sunday”, Mrs Stanley told Peter and I, who were her lodgers,...

In Cambridge and Birmingham

My sisters went to one family and I to another who had an older boy and a younger girl of their own....

A Wartime Story

We had never had to do this but this particular day, it was in late morning, when Miss Kemp who taught in...

A Childhood Saturday in March!

I always queued for a long time and I had to ask the man, who weighed the coke to help the bag...

Surprise for the Pigs

As a child during the war I lived with my Grandparents at Kings Dyke,we kept two pigs one for home use, one...