Stories categorised in 'Lancashire'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
I heard one nurse say to another "We don't need to bath her she's from the convent". The...
Arriving finally at Le Havre we collected our vehicles, formed a convoy and headed for our destination,...
In August 1944, just two months after the D-Day landing in Normandy, I was posted to R.A.F. Fairford in...
No-one seemed to know what we were, even though many girls were conscripted into the Land Army. Those of us...
That summer, the two girls, myself and a friend, went to stay with her brother in Derby... We had made some...
We were sent back to Blackpool where we were kitted out with rifle, bayonet, and survival gear, and posted...
When we were preparing to go for the second front I was posted to the Tactical Air Force at Nine Group...
I lived at Ashton-under-Lyne, and further up the road was Ladysmith Barracks, peace time home of the 9th...
A month after our 20th birthday, the 22nd of December 1940 my twin sister and I reported for duty at the...
One day, the cobbler told me to tell my mum that the soles were a proper fit and were ready for her...
I passed the home of the Medical Officer of Health and the view I saw made me gasp, rolling lawns, a lake,...
As a result I went on a course at an Army Education College at Bamber Bridge, near Preston... On VE-day we...
She searched around and eventually came across a bread delivery van whose destination was Preston so she...
Dalton is close to Barrow which had been bombed quite a lot at the beginning of the war... My mother came...
I was a babe in arms at the time and my mother refused to accept a gas mask unless and until they...
At 5 mins to nine ,there were 250/300 children round a corner waiting to see if the siren would go before...
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