Derbyshire

My War Years: Evacuated Troops and the ATS

We were lucky but a little village called Tupton on the outskirts of Chesterfield caught the last of the...

Scars of World War Two

Dad had taken me with him to a teacher's meeting in Sheffield, no one was to know that Sheffield would...

Changes in Family Life 1939-1941

Lil would marry one of the Chatsworth gardeners, and Doreen would marry the son of the man who farmed the...

Childhood Memories

I lived with my mother and father Frank and Gladys Byfleet, and younger brother Roy, and my grandmother Mrs...

Holmewood:Air Raids, Bombs and Rationing.

Alan and his family were living on Hardwick Street in Holmewood and, in common with many people across...

Memories of Holmewood, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Lucy and Rose's parents owned the chip shop in Holmewood; their sales were boosted greatly by the...

A Wartime Childhood

We could not understand the Lowestoft speech and they couldn`t understand Derbyshire, but we made good...

Memories of a Somercotes girl during the War

I was born Barbara Stevens in 1924 in Swanwick, Derbyshire but lived in Somercotes with my parents, Victor...

War Baby

My family Grand Parents, Mum, Dad & older Brother was then in great danger because we lived very close...

Technical Training for a New Occupation [R.Thresher : Part 3]

At Derby we settled down to learn all the workings of the different army wireless receivers and...

Ashbourne W.I's Sketch on Air Raids

1st Child On Mum, I'm so afraid. Mother You heard on the wireless that the German Army, under the...

Being Evacuated to Derbyshire

After three months, our Dad's factory had moved it's operation from Lowestoft, to Irthlingborough,...

Evacuee's Story: From Southend to Derbyshire

My brother and I arrived at Derby station from where we were taken in a little old van to Church Gresley in...

Childhood in Derby

Fortunately we were about three miles away from the railway and Rolls Royce — the main bomber targets...

My Wartime Childhood in Pilsley, Derbyshire

I lived in a small mining village in Derbyshire with my parents and two younger sisters. To read her...

Christmas 1944 (Flying through the air)

You were the pilot last time you are the rear gunner" "No I'm not I'm the bomb aimer an,...

The Land Army Girl and the Airman

I also had three bridesmaids, Betty Ball, Edna Palmer and Frieda Inwood, and my brother Jeffrey Palmer was...

Childhood Memories from Lower Pilsley, Derbyshire.

Having no electricity in the house, only gas, meant that the radio's had to be battery powered; the...

Life in Alfreton during WW2

Alfreton was hit during the bombing, mostly in fields, however there were casualties, a firewatcher was...

Childhood War Memories from Woodville, Derbyshire

This is Betty Baldwin's story - she lived in Woodville, Derbyshire. My sister saw them when she was...

Sid’s Story — Saying Goodbye

We went from Derby to Castle Donnington where I did my training and after I had finished my training at...

Early Evacuation:Lowestoft to Derbyshire

The occupants were Mr and Mrs Hibbard and their son Geoffrey who was the same age as my brother... Mrs...

My Memories of the War - Mary Burgin

Because it was dangerous in Derby I was sent to stay with an aunt, Hilda Steeples, a school teacher who...

My Own War

A Royal Air Force Balloon Barrage hangar was built alongside the Raynesway arterial road, and anti-aircraft...

War Time Wedding!

He was stationed locally at Melbourne, guarding POW's and I first met him at ‘The Rink’...

My work at Aristoc in Langley Mill

My wage in the shop was 15 shillings a week.When the war started, I had the chance to get a job in...