Lancashire

EVACUATION FROM GUERNSEY

The Germans were not cruel to the Guernsey people left on the island but were dreadful to the P.O.W's...

Evacuation to Blackpool

On September 1st 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland, I was 13 and evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool...

My War as an Evacuee in Lancashire

One of my Uncles was in the Merchant Navy so my cousin and I used to save ‘ship halfpennies’...

An Evacuee

I vaguely remember everyone gathering at the school, which was St Thomas's, Lower Crumpsall, Manchester...

War Memories of a Schoolgirl from Dartford

My uncle arrived to take my cousin back to Manchester and I went with them because my parents thought I...

Childhood day's in the 1940's: Ulverston in Lancashire

He even said they were brought in on German E boats with german prisoners on board. We saw what was called...

Serving in the W.A.A.F. at Morecambe in 1942 by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Serving in the W.A.A.F. at Morecambe in 1942 by Edna Stafford. In due course we each had interviews with...

Failsworth Bomb

There was an unexploded bomb in the field opposite the office so no-one was allowed near... We then took...

Evacuation

Fortunately we all had a chance to go or stay at home with our parents, my sister Edna and my younger...

A Love Story .......

One summers day when he was recovering, he was walking with a friend towards the village, when he passed my...

Life as an Evacuee in Nelson by Jean Warhurst (nee Schuster)

"In September 1940 I started at Manchester Central High School for Girls, commonly called Whitworth...

The Walls Have Ears

We would go to bed at night wondering if the sirens would have us dashing out of bed to the cellar where...

Into a Safe Area

We were conveyed by bus to Grange Park School which was used as a Rest Centre, we were fed and all the...

From London to Lancashire

Mum becaume ill, and had to stay in hospital, and as she was in the country it meant I could not visit...

Two Children

We cycled to junior school, Peggy, and Ann next door had tricycles I had a bike we had to go over the...

Evacuated - Three times!

These warehouses had huge doors and if they had been left open slightly the kids would get a long wooden...

The Davies Family at War; Working in the Munitions Factory at aged 14 by Ronald Davies

The Davies Family at War; Working in the Munitions Factory at aged 14 by Ronald Davies. There was a...

A Little Girl's War: Gas Masks, ITMA, Manchester Blitz, Loss of Home and Father

A Little Girl's War: Gas Masks, ITMA, Manchester Blitz, Loss of Home and Father. My father was at the...

Wartime Memories - Part Six

Before I left Ormskirk, I was in the cinema there and one evening a bomb was dropped nearby. The war with...

Grace Stocks' Wartime Life (Part 1)

Once we had demonstrated a reasonable degree of competence on small cars, we took a lesson in driving at...

J A Martin DFC - The Flying Fortress Fire

I was posted, after my time at RAF Ford, to work as a Flight Mechanic on Flying Fortresses in the RAF...

Childhood Memories in Bolton

I was 3 when the war started and one of my first memories was that of going with mum and dad to...

Memories

One Saturday night I was at a dance in the village of Adlington, the sirens went, we heard the plane come...

Evacuation Memories: Manchester to Blackpool

"I came to Blackpool with the evacuees because my father, being employed by Manchester Corporation, had...

The Milk Van

So I started driving a milk van, delivering milk for the Co-op Dairy. It ended up with me having to take...

My Experiences of World War II

Additionally, some of the teachers were very cruel in some of the things they said and quite often the...