Lancashire

Grandfather was a GI

My Grandfather never saw my Dad and didn't keep in touch with my Grandmother... My Grandmother, Ivy,...

Unusual Evacuees

Going by recent events in Europe it was expected that bombing of places like Manchester and Liverpool would...

Childrens Memories as Evacuees

No because I had my sister with me but she felt homesick. Our mother wanted us back as my sister was really...

Mary Meehan's War

I remember the orchard and the pigs and the hayloft, how we'd go to the cattle market and how we...

A Bevin Boy

Our first destination was near Huyton-with-Roby on the outskirts of Liverpool, but because of bombing we...

Mrs. Evans' Sandwiches

We children were tired and fractious so Mother opened our tin of sandwiches to placate us, Mrs Evans sat...

Dick Kerr's Ladies

My Dad, Bill Tomlinson, during the last war, worked as an aircraft fitter on Lancaster Bombers and, as he...

Evacuees Life in Preston

Unfortunately, Auntie ANnie's husband Henry was a violent man and regularly beat his wife if the dinner...

Wartime Memories: The Start of the War and Rationing, Lancashire

We switched on the radio, no tv in those days! we got all news and information via the radio. i was peeling...

Prisoners From Edan Camp help out at Farms

Some of the first prisoner of War to come to the Satellite camp near Malton were Italians. Ebberston, the...

Germans in Blackpool

The first harrowing experience I had was two German parachutists banging the door where I was staying in an...

Germany Surrenders - We Made Ginger Biscuits

Mrs Wilkinson recalls: "We arranged, when VE Day was announced, which would only be on the evening...

WW2 Memories at the Age of Six

The first memories I recall about those war years,bring to mind "the black out". We had blinds at...

First Time The Guns Opened Fire

One day I noticed quite a lot of activity on the fields and several soldiers erecting what appeared to be...

Joan Lewis' Story

We used to go to some Common Land called the Westwood and watch the searchlights criss crossing the sky. On...

Memories of Wartime Darwen part 2

I recall all of the school children in Darwen being assembled on the site of the local market, and being...

Soldiers in Training: Little Hulton, Lancashire

Little Hulton, Lancashire, a village strung out along the A6 a few miles north west of Manchester was not...

A Guineapig in a Munitions Factory

My mother though farm work would be too strenuous,so one summer I joined a group working in a munitions...

A Change of Careers

Sitting in Olympia of the Winter Gardens learning the mystery of Morse Code and the working of the wireless...

Changing Everday Life in WW2

Food changed radically for young children, for example when I was given half a pomegranate and a pin. Food...

A Lancashire Wartime Childhood

One of the evacuees from Manchester had never had an underslip before moving to the Fylde. The planes...

Someone Watching Over Me

When Nellie's husband, Charlie, was called into the Army in 1939 we moved back to Blackpool and I...

My Dad and the Pedal Bike

More than once I would hear Dad telling Mum that the "bobby" had told him to walk by the wall side,...

Wartime Memories - Part Seven

In the spring of 1943, Harold was actually given leave to come home and before he boarded the ship at...

What Mum Told Daughter

Her dad came from weaste to see if she was all right, they found there was no doors on, every body knew...

Warchild

Granny told me. A neighbour looks after me while the pram in the hall is filled like my friend's with a...