Manchester

An Evacuee Unwelcomed in Lytham St Annes

With no obvious plan stops were made at random houses, and the householders asked if they were willing to...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood in Derbyshire and Manchester

I gained one of the highest scores of all the children taking the Manchester 11+ and was awarded the...

A Wartime Childhood.

At a later stage in the war, I was in my Sunday school class and we were told that if a German...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Manchester by Maurice Roe

During the period 1940-1942, despite Manchester not being hit as much as other cities, much damage was done...

The Penguin Concert Party

Bert King wrote, in the late 1940s It was in January 1940 that Lilian suggested that we might form a...

War Years in Collyhurst Manchester

Many a morning I and my brother Michael, have joined my mam queuing at Dennis`s which was a local cigarette...

A W.A.A.F. Gets Demobilised and Married 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Mary's story, together with the war story of her husband, Harry Blood, was transcribed onto a floppy...

How I Thought it Was: Excerpts from My Story

On the opposite side, stood the remains of three or four houses, blackened stumps, crubling with decay,...

A W.A.A.F. On Leave With Her Fiance 1945 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

I left early for Grantham and the London train, as did Curly, and we duly reported to the Endsleigh Hotel...

Manchester Blitz

Bert and Doris Robinson had a comfortable marriage, in the neat terraced house in Fallowfield. And now,...

The Crater - a childhood recollection by Edwin Smith

He was soon proved correct, when a short time later they felt unusually soft ground beneath their feet, and...

The War at Home

I cannot say rest easily or peacefully because the fear of a bomb dropping on us was always with us and the...

Incendiary Bombs Fall on River Street, Stockport by Marian Ryan (nee Arrowsmith)

Mum pushed my brother into my arms and said “Get to the shelter”, then she grabbed her two...

First 3 Days of War - Manchester Town Hall

Tea in town then returned to the office to tell Lloyd Wynne that we could do the News sheet for September....

Memories of a Manchester girl

John was sent to Leeds and it was easy to hitchhike a lift from there and he re-united with his family and...

Wartime Memories: Rationing

>WARTIME MEMORIES >By Lilian Ducie > >I was fortunate not to suffer any personal loss...

Heaton Moor Home Guard by Joe Carley

Substantial parts of this book were published by a local publisher, Neil Richardson in a volume entitled...

Manchester Blitz and the Sale Post Office

During the War, I worked at the post office in Sale, Manchester....

The Day the Telegram Came

He caught the earliest train back to his base on Thorney Island in Hampshire so that he would have a good...

Balloons with Ears

Here we were to make two descents from barrage balloons before getting at the ample lovely Dakotas seen...

The Blitz According to Jean Anderson

There, Joyce,May, Lilian, Jack, baby David and I all piled on and went to sleep... At home we feasted on...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Eight - 1945 A Wartime Wedding

Les and I bade each other a long and lingering farewell in the late afternoon and he and Ernie returned to...

One Child's War Part 2 A New House in War-time by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

Food rationing had now become compulsory and Mother, in common with every other British “Mum”,...

Big Brother

On a couple of occasions, mam and me accompanied Ronald to the station to catch his train back to camp... I...

Goodbye Father, Hello Stranger

Also the butcher would sell or give away bones with quite a lot of meat on them... Lentil and meat bone...

From Girl to Woman in Manchester

Manchester had been badly bombed at Christmas in 1941....