Manchester

My Life My War - Chapter 6

Going back to gunnery, we, the Marines, manned only one of the four turrets and Seamen manned the other...

A Schoolgirl’s Memories of Wartime Northenden by Jean Daniel (nee Langshaw)

Many a time they lit up the German aircraft coming over to bomb the Airport and the city of Manchester....

My Memories: A Child in Manchester

This did not prove to be enough and in the end when the sirens went we would get up and go to...

Uncle Billy's Letter about the Blitz

The first Blitz started at 7pm on the Sunday before Xmas and lasted exactly 12 hours; the longest Blitz of...

Manchester Blitz by Joe Carley

I went to the door and looked out into deserted Slade Lane, lit up by momentary flashes, noticing here and...

A Cockney Evacuee

We lived in Edmonton N/London Mum Dad Me two brothers & two Sisters my other two brothers were in the...

Marie Wells: My Life during the War

I went on duty every Sunday voluntary at Manchester Royal Infirmary - we also took our collection boxes...

Nightworker

I remember looking out of my bedroom window, at the lake in the Clough. As I was being shot at, he'd...

Roy Grayham-Wartime Memories

Things were getting pretty bad with the bombings so my mother decided to evacuate me again she sent me to...

One Child's War Part 1 School Bells and Sirens by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It was absolutely obligatory to carry them with you all the time, and woe betide any child who arrived at...

Beryl Stevens (nee Knight)’ Wartime Memoirs (born 25th June 1926)

My Mum having lived through the First World War at the same age as me knew there would be many lives lost...

Sheila's War Time Story.

I had a younger sister and she was a baby, she had a very big one that my Mum had to fit...

One Child's War Part 3 Blitzes and Bombshells by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It was generally assumed that the Germans were attempting to bomb the Stockport railway viaduct, which was...

Preparing For "An Invasion"

We had just come on duty at 7 a.m. and were hanging up our cloaks, when Staff Nurse came and said,...

Stockport Express Christmas 1945

The Stockport Council of Churches had organised Community Singing of Christmas Hymns and Carols in the...

The Weekend Before Christmas 1940: Clayton, Manchester - Effects of Bombing and Growing Up Fast

Frank Smith of Higher Openshaw, Fred Philips of Clayton Vale, Joe Flanaghan of Stuart Street and of course...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Manchester by Hilda Burns

On what turned out to be the worst night of the Manchester Blitz, Dad had a premonition. Dad carreid on...

One Child's War Part 4 A School at War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It appeared that early that morning, after the air-raid which we had had the previous night, a German...

I was Just a Lad

Their older sister, auntie Hilda and uncle John Astley lived in Ashton, or Aeston as some of the old folks...

A Childhood 'Lost' by the Event of WW2 - Lancashire

Over the next couple of years as I began to understand that something was not quite 'right'. We had...

John Smith- Wartime Memories.

I lived with my father in a terraced house opposite a pub called ‘The King Billy’ in Robert...

Enlisting for the R.A.F. by Edward Horgan

As you can imagine, I came out of the building absolutely shattered; my two friends passed with flying...

Family Reunion

We had German prisoners billeted too, girls that became friendly with them were ostricised... We were aware...

A Wartime Student

In 1945 I was a student at Manchester University studying physics and chemistry. I went into Wilmslow and...

Bombed Out in Salford

During the 1940 Manchester Air Raid Joan worked at Metro Vics in Trafford Park Manchester, once home from...

One Child's War Part 6 The Evacuees by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

Along with evacuees from London came a number of people from the Channel Islands... Another Guernsey...