Derbyshire

My Start To The War

I lived with my Grandmother, Emily Long and Parents, Bernard and Doris Goodall in Ebenezer Street for about...

Ambulance Service

Part of her duties was to get the dead and the injured out of the bombed buildings. A more pleasant side of...

Evacuation in Derbyshire.

My father decided this was a target and it was arranged that I would be evacuated to the north of the...

The Billiard Room

One day some Oranges arrived, and mum could hardly contain her excitement, as oranges had not been seen for...

From Kilburn to Downing Street: With the Grenadier Guards

My husband Harold Burgoyne came from Kilburn and worked for the railway at Derby, where he was a fitter....

Introduction to "When Bugles Call"

I was born on 31st January 1918 at Somercotes Hill, Somercotes, Derbyshire to parents who were Derbyshire...

Making Do: Making Clothes from Blankets in Derby

During the war to save coupons, we bought blankets from Derby Market and a local dressmaker Mrs Attewell,...

War-time visitors to Holbrook

As a young woman in Holbrook I can remember there being quite a lot of soldiers in the village. They took...

Attack on Broadway, Derby

There was only one Bombing Raid on the Rolls-Royce factory, which, of course, produced the Merlin engine...

My Great Grandad

He was killed in the D Day landings in 1944, buried in the Bayeax Cemetery, France. He is one of the...

Our saviour 'the bath'

When the air raids came at our house in Moorside Lane Holbrook we did not have a shelter, what we used to...

POWs Working on the Farm

POW working on the Land I remember one man gave me a Model Tractor and Trailer he had made from wood, but...

childhood memories:Derbyshire

We had an air raid shetler dug out in the garden and each morning I had to help my father pump out...

Belgian Evacuees in Codnor

My aunt Hilda lived on Mill Lane in Codnor, at one point during the war she had a Belgian family lodging...

Christamas Time

A few weeks before. a food parcel would arrive from Auntie Margaret in New Zealand, full of mysteries like...

Smoke screens

This is my memory of a soldier lighting two smokescreens outside houses in Holcombe Street, Derby, during...

My Dad

This is a picture of my dad in his Home Guard uniform - I do not remember any of the other men's...

Only Pic I Have of My Dad

My dad with my little brother but this was taken about 1961....

Spondons Heroes

It describes the history of Spondon Village and its many families....