Hereford and Worcester

My Memories of the Women's Land Army

We would cycle into Leominster and leave our bikes at the local fire station the fellows would look after...

Childhood Days in Wartime Years

So it was in this small country village, on the outskirts of Wales that I spent most of my childhood years...

Schoolboy at War

Encouraged by her sister, Hilda, whose son, Anthony, was a pupil at Belmont Abbey School, Hereford, Mother...

A Soldier-----What Me? An extract from my book" "The Wearing o' the KHAKI"

Our sergeant became hoarse, her face took on the most dangerous hue- " Up two three", Down two...

Evacuation: From Bootle to Herefordshire

My primary school in Bootle, near Liverpool, evacuated their children to Southport on 1 September 1939......

Cow Killed by a Bomb

Then my brother- on leave from the Royal Navy where he was escorting the trans- Atlantic convoys- came...

A Boy in the War

I am looking at the front cover of One Story of RADAR by A P Rowe at a photograph of ‘Jimmy’...

In the Golden Valley: A Land Girl Remembers.

I lived & worked for nearly two years with the Williams family at Upper House Farm Snodhill, Dorstone,...

Mother Abandons the Washing

A jeep came from the direction of Three Elms and stopped. I had never seen any lady appear in public in the...

Sunday Tea Speeds the Allied Victory

She lectured me on the fact that there were, as she spoke, millions of children across Europe who would...

4 Bn. The Border Regiment

Instead of being flown by glider into Burma to remain during the monsoon period, whilst the other brigades...

Extraordinary Schooling in WW2 - Part Two

Yarkhill in Herefordshire is in the heart of rural Britain, in the rain shadow of the Welsh Black Mountains...

A Wireless Operator's Tale Part 3

The guard commander said, “You're for it tomorra, Flight Sergeant Frazer is fuming. One of the...

Fred Cole part 5: Missions Completed 1945

Dad worked in Personnel at Rolls Royce in Derby until taking the position of Personnel Manager at Rolls...

Cow Killed by a Bomb in Leominster

The next day we heard that 7 bombs had dropped on the outskirts of town about half a mile away. We had...

Our Day Centre has lots of Memories

A Town Hall in London ANNIE TOOKE kept War Diaries of London when she worked at the Town Hall on Report and...

Phoney War

There were several cider apple trees on the farm and I remember going with the farmer to the top meadow to...

Teenage war

I was 15 years old when war broke out and a pupil at Hereford High School for Girls. Young girls were not...

Last Move

Mrs Druce had two children of her own, Josie and Fred but she also had two Birmingham boys Jim and Les...

Memories of 1939/40

Returning from Dunkirk, my godfather, John Skelsey, - I think an officer in the Highland Division at the...

Shop-keeping and Rationing

On a Saturday made home made ice cream and obtained the ice from Longfields, Fishmonger Worcester Rd...

Evacuation To Huntington Park, Herefordshire

I was sent to Herefordshire, where I stayed on Lord Romilly's Estate in Huntington Park. I returned to...

Land Army Daily Life

The food was almost non-existant — after twelve hours work we came back to a couple of sticky buns...

Evacuated to Rushden

I was living in Walthamstow and was moved to Rushden. I was given a carrier bag with a tin of corned beef,...

Escape from Evesham

My mother came to visit us while we were in Evesham, although it was not until the Christmas hoildays that...

Home-Made Fire Beater Competition

In the autumn of 1940 when all the corn was ripe and an invasion seemed imminent, the village held a...