Lancashire

War Work in Bolton

Before war broke out I had been sewing and examining these cases for the textile company Tootal, Broadbent...

Professor Two Thou

My first job was shovelling peat into a machine but then I worked on the Kek Mills - these were about 30...

Dorothy Painter's War

On August 12th 1940 I started at Blackburn Royal Infirmary as a student radiographer - "the only grouse...

Rationing Memories

In 1944 Dad took me to a concert at RAF Burtonwood, which was a US bomber group airfield> The concert...

Why My Grandmother Joined the WAAF

My grandmother's name is Muriel Molloy but it hasn't always been that... Jack was shot down and...

Base at Scampton famous for the Dambusters.

We lived close to the Humber and noted that the German bombers would come in fairly low, drop their bombs...

Joyce's Memories

Both my uncles had joined up one in the army and the other in the marines, my cousin was in the Lancashire...

A Child in WW2: In Accrington

Our Northern town of Accrington happily escaped the bombing — except for one miscalculated bomb which...

A Lancashire Welcome

We rented a house, it was number 10, Coniston Road, Little Harwood, Blackburn...it was right across from...

Fishpool in the War

The cook was Miss Emma Stewart and her sister Miss Stewart worked in the nurse's kitchen... Fishpool is...

Signing Up

Things were unsettled in Europe at this time, of course, following Neville Chamberlain's talks with...

Wartime Memories - Part One

The trouble was, with Adolf Hitler, his troops had moved into Czechoslovakia and were advancing towards...

Feeling Lost and Frightened

I was nine years old and the year was 1944 when I and my little sister aged four were eva cuated from...

Elizabeth Nolan's Wartime Memories

Tom was eventually called in, in 1941, and travelled to Ireland, Italy, North Africa, all the way to...

Women Learning New Skills

My task was part of section work;each machinist working on a different part of the cape which was more like...

Childhood in Bradford and Nelson.

The thing I vividly recall is when my headmistress at Hanson School,Bradford, when I was eleven, announcing...

"My Father, the Stranger"

Granddad would take me for long walks in the park, and taught me to ride my bike and looking back, he...

Evacuated to Darwen by Patricia Hayes (nee Roberts)

Evacuated to Darwen by Patricia Hayes. My twin sister Betty and I were evacuated with the school to Darwen....

BOMBING IN MANCHESTER

We were again sleeping underneath a building, in the shelter that was known as the Transport Offices on the...

The Evacuee Nobody Wanted

The bus was full of children, who had been evacuated from Salford, and the headmistress of St Nicholas...

Betty Dinsdale's War

I joined a voluntary land army scheme in Lancaster - we cycled to various farms on our bikes. Then I worked...

Portrait of a Wartime Marriage

Ted & Betty came along to the Birmingham Back to Backs to tell their story to a National Trust...

Audrey Clegg's Story

I had three brothers, George who was 20 and an air force pilot, Eric who was 18 and had gone into the...

Shades of Spike Milligan

From Blackpool I was sent to an airfield in Hertfordshire and it was arranged that the Black Watch would...

The Evacee

The Evacuee Who Arrived From Lancashire In 1940 Peter Tiernan. So I was taken to Liverpool and handed over...

Evacuee at Colne: First Christmas 1939

A few weeks before Christmas I was taken to the markethall and stood looking at about 6 rows of dolls....