Hereford and Worcester

Working in a Male Dominated World

As we were a big family we lived in the old station master's house — a big and cold house —...

My Father's Pig

One morning during surgery he received a telephone call from a pig farmer patient, who asked him to call as...

A Side of Bacon

I was told to go to Mr. Griffiths, who had a shop in Widemarsh Street, next to the Imperial pub, and pick...

Swansea burning

Later in life I checked with the history books of the period and, indeed, Swansea Docks had been very...

Wartime Radio Announcer

I decided to do my “Bit” and went to the Royal Ordinance Factory in Rotherwas, in Hereford...

Childhood Memories

A bomb destroyed two cottages just out of Burcot and we children all went on our bikes to collect...

Trophy hunt

During one of his visits, in 1941 I think, Vic and I were exploring the countryside between Tupsley Pitch...

Evacuation from Guernsey

My mother's parents and two of her sisters came to Hereford as evacuees and at this time air raids were...

War in a factory

One night I wsas on duty when there were air raids very close at hand but I was never there at a...

VE Day in the Lickeys Bromsgrove

My name is Alfred Ash I was born in 1911 and married in 1936, we had two children and lived on The...

Leominster Memories

Bateman's Buildings was where the Americans did something with cooking; my aunt was engaged to a...

The Holy Thorn at Orcop

I used to visit my Grandparents over Christmas, and there was a thorn tree that used to flower... I often...

My Evacuee

My daughter saw the evacuees arrive at the station, she was about 10 years old... I used to make clothes...

Life at the Worcester Royal Hospital

I was a secretary in the Almoner's department at the old Worcester Royal Infirmary when the second...

The Burcot Bomb

We went outside to see hundreds of incendiary bombs lighting up the countryside all the men in our lane...

A Court Summons

We used to go to Craven Arms cinema on Sunday nights... As we were cycling out of Craven Arms we passed a...

Memories of Being a Guide 1942-45

I can remember a guide rally either in Rickmansworth or Uxbridge where four of use who were patrol leaders...

German Plane Bombed the Market

We did, from time to time, have the German fighter planes fly over us and one night they dropped some bombs...

Rudolph, Prisoner of War

My Aunt and Uncle had a prisoner of war working for them called Rudolph, he would have been about 20 years...

My Fortunate Childhood

When I pass through it now, it brings back memories of making model airplanes out of balsa wood, the good...

Memories of US Troops Around Morton

Everybody had a pump, with lovely, ice-cold water, and this would be decanted into the bowser and taken to...

Bomb at the Munitions Factory

I remember in the War when i was a child living at Dinedor a couple of miles from Rotherwas when a bomb...

Memories of Madley

We flew Domini aircraft which we called , Flying Classrooms....

Human Canaries

One lady in particular says she worked on a bench in the North side, and she dealt with cordite this...

Evacuation by Mary Stenson

First we were taken to Southport for one day and the second was to Brecenshire, this was to prepare us for...

Evacuation from Bootle,Liverpool to Kington Herefordshire

Her school, Bootle High School for Girls took over a house called Hergest Croft in Kington....