Derbyshire

Memories of the Second World War

All around Corby they were installing antiaircraft guns with a searchlight crew manned by soldiers and...

A Bevin Boy Remembers

Soon after my 18th birthday the brown manila envelope containing the expected call up papers arrived and I...

Britain in Danger: The Home Guard in Derby

Only those who experienced those heady days, after the fall of France, can appreciate the fervour of...

Weddings, washing and war work

Mum looked after the boys while Nell was at the factory... Nell was a very gifted knitter, making all the...

Life on the Farm and Tutbury School continued

On these occasions we took the three boys - always on a Saturday - and if funds ran to it Pat would...

The Age Of Fear Chapter 3

Ivor was first to comment on them, asking Joe whether he had been fighting... Mrs. Foulkes was true to her...

Missing in Action

On Saturday the 6th August 1944 one of Sids crew, Joe Butler was getting married, Sid was coming home for...

London to Lakeland

The train journey I recall very clearly mainly because the carriages were so full mostly by soldiers and...

The Second World War, through the Eyes of an Eleven-Year-Old Boy

Yours sincerely Deborah Devonshire The following is a transcript of a letter from Eric Oliver to the...

From Bullets To Buttons

My dad was with us , he had waked over the fields from Loscoe Miners Welfare, where he was the steward.We...

Moving Around

We drove there in the summer of 1940, first to Hassop Hall where we left my 13 year old brother, and then...

A Letter From a Derbyshire Serviceman

Uncle Fred was a Collier in Ilkeston, Derbyshire and quite a character from what I have been told! Then I...

A Few Memories of Army Life in the ATS. (1942 -1946)

Single - living at home in Ambergate with my parents and two sisters and since leaving school, working in...

Life on the Farm and a New School

Jack's mother made farm butter with cream skimmed from the milk before it was collected by the lorry...

Second World War Experiences: With the Royal Engineers

We saw the bombs falling on Derby andd later heard of the civilian casualties. From Stranraer I went to...

A Woman's Place in the Factory, Derby

I didn't fancy working on a farm so I went to work for Rolls Royce on Nightingale Road in Derby... For...

Memories of when the bombs passed over.

My home town is Buxton in Derbyshire were I spent my formative years living with my Mum, Dad and sister...

A Child's Eye View Of The War — Catapults, Shepherds PIie, And A Lifetime's Respect For Raisins!

A Child's Eye View Of The War — Catapults, Shepherds PIie, And A Lifetime's Respect For...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...

My War in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers: Part 2

We soon arrived at Markeaton Park and passed through the barrier and guardhouse to come to a standstill...

My War in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers: Part 1

However, money could make life slightly easier and it is well known that the middle and upper class members...

"That's Amore"

I am a Methodist by religion while the wife was Catholic but that was sorted out, but permission to marry...

Part of Derby's War Effort: At the Vickers Armstrong Factory

To oversee production the hierarchy was seconded from Vickers factory in Crayford, Kent....

Recollections of the War: Derbyshire

Their drone was very different to our bombers, and we could hear theirs come over Shirebrook, turn and go...

More about Clowne and the Stretton/Green Families

Of course nell was always anxious for news of Frank, and would stand at the front gate, waiting for the...