Lancashire

Children's War Effort: Devonshire Road Junior School, Blackpool

The picture with this story shows The Children of Miss Peate's class in the various Costumes designed...

Mrs Ward's War

He had been waiting to rejoin his boat but the telegram went to the wrong address so they sent the Military...

Yanks in Blackburn

We thought they were different- they had more money than the local lads- they were smarter, more confident...

The Day Sheila Went Away

She lived with her mother, Lily, whom she she loved dearly, and her father, Henry, who to her was the...

Reserved Occupation

I worked in the office at Williamsons in Lancaster as a Comptometer operator, it was a very clever...

Brother Jack

When I was a kid of about 8/9 I had 4 brothers in the Navy, Jack, Mick, Dave, Jimmy... A few days...

The Evacuee

I remember the school produced a school magazine called 'The Evacuee'. We put our own words to...

Aircraft Hangar Party

The photograph is of many children in an aircraft hangar at the famous A.V. Roe factory,Greengate,in...

The Home Guard in a small village in Lancashire

The Home Guard in our small village met in one of the pubs, the Farmer's Arms, and staffed fire...

Singing for your supper- a few random family memories

Sing us a song, Kitty!' said the women to my Mum, when they came out into the back yards and...

Volunteering to Go Overseas

My father, Roger ‘Tiny’ Lambert was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Essex Regiment and was based...

Celebrations !

When we planned our wedding for May 5th, 1945, at Habergham Parish Church, Burnley, we did not know that...

Memories of Wartime Darwen

Darwen had its fair share of attractive targets which the Germans would have like dto knock out, such as...

Blackpool Evacuees

Eleanor's mother had a boarding house in Blackpool, she took in 36 evacuees all from Manchester Grammar...

From Grief to Great Joy!

My father, Harold Croft, enlisted in the Yorks and Lancs Regiment at the outbreak of WW2... My mother may...

Almost A Channel Islander

My sister was also fostered out to a family in Bradford, so we were split up for most of the war years....

War in Sanderstaed: A Five to Seven Year Old's View

I was 5 years old watching my dad prune the roses in our garden when he told me that he would be...

Jimmy's Cafe " Bombed"

She stated:- "When it came to our supper break my driver went to Jimmy's Cafe, as it was then...

Alien in the ATS Woman's Army

I came to England at 16 to go to boarding school at Wentworth Hall in High Esher, Surrey, 1935....

A Teenager's Recollections part 4...A Mock Wedding

Amongst the traditions brought to the Bristol by the female former cotton workers was the mock wedding...

A Teenager's Recollections part 5..The "Bristol Big Bands"

My most treasured memories of my time working as a toolroom apprentice at the Bristol Aero Engine works are...

A Wartime Memory from Bacup

It was just a German bomber, running on one engine, returning from Barrow-in-Furness, whose pilot, with two...

A Daylight Raid on Darwen

I went to a small preparatory school in Darwen on the green, which occupied two big rooms on the first...

Wartime Memories - Part Five

In October it was apprarent that the Battle of Britain had been won and the enemy switched to bombing all...

A War Time Memory: Evacuated from London to Grange Oversands

In 1943, age 8yrs I lived in London with my mother and elder sister, the bombing was very bad and most...

Jean, The Evacuee

I went to Aylesbury Grammar School and watched the Blitz on London from there... We celebrated VE and VJ...