Lancashire

Mother's letters - 8

Florence is in Manchester today at a meeting, so she will see for herself the damage done by bombs....

Mother's Letters - 7

I would have liked to have been at Kirkcaldy to see Billy with his first Christmas but that was just...

Joining the PRU

Flying training started in summer 1941 on Tiger Moths and Twin-engined Airspeed Oxfords. Eventually...

Memories from Members of Astley Lunch Club, Worcestershire.

THESE ARE STORIES FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GREAT WITLEY, WORC; MALVERN; LONDON, CARDIFF; LANCASTER,...

Hesketh Bank WW2 Newsletter - Part 3 - December 1943

My Dear Friends, This is to wish you, with all my heart, and with all our hearts in Hesketh Bank, a happy...

Early WW2 Days in Salford

Another story was that of a man who was caught signalling to the German bombers with a torch from behind...

Roy Grayham-Wartime Memories

Things were getting pretty bad with the bombings so my mother decided to evacuate me again she sent me to...

Hesketh Bank WW2 Newsletter - Part 4 - March 1944

Bert Price sends special greetings to Robert Sharples, Jack Banks and Doris Whiteside, and he desires to...

Sheila's War Time Story.

I had a younger sister and she was a baby, she had a very big one that my Mum had to fit...

The Incendiary Bomb, the Pot Plant, and the Maharaja

I was at Heston until April, and then went to work on Spitfires and Lysanders with 61OTU in Shropshire. I...

The Day War Broke Out: Evacuated from Gosport to Burnley

They had lived in Gosport since 1932 when, just as they were getting married, my paternal grandfather had...

Childhood War Memories: Evacuated to Blackpool

I was seven when the war started and my sister was 11. we lived in the suburbs of Manchester and, within a...

Memories of World War 2

We stuck it out in London until the Doodle Bugs started and then my parents gave in and returned to...

Expensive Presents 1943!

Our visits to Boston Spa stopped, Penny was hardly ever mentioned in our house... I played with my old toys...

Memoirs of a Young Girl: In Sale, Lancashire

Even the Town Hall in Sale was badly damaged in a bombing raid - I well remember that night, in the...

World War II Memories- Life in the Mines

On arriving at the surface we walked out of the cage onto the bit brow and looking up the night sky was...

Olive Halliwell (Coker): Evacuated from Liverpool to Skelmersdale

I remember standing on Orrell Park station with my gas mask over our shoulder, a little case or bag with my...

My Memories of World War 2: From Orrell Park to Skelmersdale

I remember standing on Orrell Park station with our gas mask over our shoulder, a little case or bag with...

Teenage Years

My dad went across the road to listen to Chamberlain on the wireless,we didn't have one at the time......

My Experiences of World War 2 by LACW Sonie Renowden (Jeffery from 1944)

Not long after that the Barrage balloon became redundant and I remustered to Electrician, which brought me...

Extract from a Northern Childhood

Our older neighbour who remembered the first world war advised mum that it was better not to go to the...

Jean Hassall-Wartime memories

My Grandma Mallinson was knocked down and killed on Bradford Road in Huddersfield by a "Queen Mary"...

Tom Hewson's Soldier's Story - part 2

In Llanelli we found ourselves part of the 53rd Infantry Division and I and a Bobby Jones - from Bury - and...

Training to be a WRNS Wireless Telegraphist and My Posting in N. Ireland

At the beginning of 1943 I volunteered for the WRNS as a wireless telegraphist, and on the 25th May, aged...

Elsie Barker's War

I was married in 1943 at Chatburn when Billy was on leave. But one Saturday I'd just got Robin into his...

RedTape

My first job was in censorship work in Liverpool and then in Bermuda — where, although the work was...