Lancashire

Baby in the War: Memories of Heywood, Lancashire

My first memories is as a toddler walking from my Uncle's farm, which was in Birch, to Heywood during...

Wartime in Barrow-in-Furness

I was a child when the war started 1939, I was 4 years old,we were living at 15 Stuart street on Barrow...

Evacuee: From Salford to Morecombe Bay

In September 1939, I was evacuated to Grange-over-Sands,on Morecombe Bay, from Salford, near Manchester....

Story from the 'NFS'

During the early period of the war, whilst attending one fire during the night he was told to bring the...

The Hazel Basket

The Hazel Basket...

Teenage View of the War

The rationing which from memory, ended up as 2oz of butter, water and margerine, 2oz of lard, quarter pound...

Blackpool Shock!

I joined the R.A.F in late 1941 and having been 'kitted'’ out at Padgate, near Warrington, I...

Training

Like most people who have ever watched Dads army on the BBC and rawed with laughter at the antics. One...

Carbide Lamps and Farmwork

Although cycling in the blackout wasn't much fun and the bikes didn't have dynamos, only carbide...

Run Rabbit Run

Sometimes we didn't have time to get to the air-raid shelters so the teacher would say "get under...

Military Nursing

One of her most vivid memories was of nursing the stretcher cases brought home from Dunkirk, in a convoy of...

A Teenager's Recollections of the Second World War

Soon after I came to live in this centuries old village, 64 years ago, I started work as a young apprentice...

My Great Grandma's Interview

My Great Grandma's name back then was Elizabeth Watinson and she was only seventeen when the war...

Collecting for Spitfire for Britain Fund

I lived in a remote village called Crank, which is near St.Helens in Lancashire:. We heard the German...

The night bombs fell

They hid under the stiars for w while ands then Ken crept back to his bed because his feet were ice cold......

Memories: A Driver in the Royal Artillery

I was trained as a driver but because I am just a little chap I had to be lifted up into the...

Wartime Memories: Bolton

My memories of the war started when I was five years of age, we lived about three miles out of Bolton, an...

Wartime Memories - Part Two

My parents were at church and I ahd a telephone call from my sister saying that we were now at war -...

The Conscientious Objector: In Blackpool, Lancashire

These people were known as Conscientious Objectors and it was Government Policy at that time to take them...

Visit of George Fornby

One particular memory I have of the war years is when George Fornby came to Blackburn on a visit to boost...

Indagatum

My aunt reluctantly surrendered her son in the hope that they would give him a better start in life in...

A Child's War in St Annes on Sea

Only when I visited my Grandparents in Manchester, I well remember the 1940 bombing and seeing Piccadilly...

Joining Up Disaster

After 16 weeks with the Gordons, we joined the London Scottish in Hampshire preparing for the invasion...

Bomb over Stubbins

Edenfield is a short distance from Stubbins and one night a bomb dropped on the river bank at...

SCHOOLTIME IN THE SHELTER

I was a child at School during the War, somewhere between Blackpool and Preston. The child who was sitting...

Bogey Man

He was black and bloated having been in the water for some time.Most comments from the grown-ups were that...