Manchester

The Swain Family Story

My dear Mum at 8 Carrill Drive, my sister in Macclesfield billeted with the family of the Town Clerk of...

The Lathams of Duke Street, OldTrafford

So, with my Dad pushing Mum in her wheelchair, me on her knee for most of the way and Freda walking...

Life in Munitions- or ‘Gor Blimey!’

It was another munitions factory and we had boiler suits, turbans and steel capped shoes... We then went on...

Memories of Wartime in Burnage

We were thoguht to be vulnerable in Burnage, due to our close proximity to the 'Fairey Aviation...

A landmine falls on Norton Street, Old Trafford by "David"

There were two houses, our house and the house next door, and the landmine had landed in the road outside...

Everlasting Words: Childhood Memories during War

It was 1940 and the German air raids had started after the Battle of Britain was won by 'The Few'....

Baby Days

Our warden couldn't find his helmet when the bombing started so my mother gave him the brass rose...

Fred McEwan and the Home Guard Rescue the Caretaker's Family at Hulme Town Hall

Fred McEwan and his colleague Joseph McKeown were serving in the C Company of the 46th Battalion Home Guard...

Wartime Crumpsall by Elsie Bamforth

There was one incident when our leader, a rather wealthy lady, came straight from a party and took her posh...

Manchester and Other Places From 1930

I attended Crumpsall Lane School and was in the Life Boys at St. Matthews Church, Crumpsall... Soldiers...

The Black Hole: Parachute Training at Ringway

However, there was not only the inviting Dakotas to be seen for, apart from a few new Avro Tudor airliners...

A Way to the Sky: Parachute Training

After seeing a dozen aeroplanes up close at an Alan Cobham air display in a field outside our village in...

And I Did it: Their, Way: Parachute Training at Ringway

. With the first sessions given over to harness swinging and mat bashing - perhaps three days - we were...

Three Cheers For Colour-Blindness by "Eric Sparky"

This was incorrect as I had told the A.T.C. Commanding Officer that I wished to become a wireless...

The Day the Telegram Came - Part 3

The telegram said "We regret to inform you, that your son Geofrey Stringer has been seriously...

Memories of a Six Year Old

I can remember us waiting for the air raid siren to go and my dad would wrap me in a blanket and...

MY WARTIME EXPERIENCE

My husband and I went to the same school and when the war came he went into the Navy and his ship...

Dunkirk Comes to Rochdale

My other memory of Dunkirk concerns my mother's brother, my uncle Jim... About six in the morning Joan...

How I was Affected by the Second World War: Childhood Memories of Manchester

Mother became pregnant with my sister Marcia who was born in the Manchester blitz, who was ten years...

Margaret Tomlinson-My Earliest Recollections

Boys and girls, various ages, all from the ‘dark satanic mills’ area. Bed times I remember...

Child memories of the war: South of Manchester

I lived in the suburbs south of Manchester with Mum, Dad and my younger sister Peggy. Dad was a land...

A Schoolchild's Memories of the Second World War by "David"

Friends that I made when I moved to Prestbury because I was older and those friendships were important....

"MY FIRST DAY AS A WARTIME NURSE"

I entered nurse training at The Royal Infirmary, Manchester in November 1940... The Station air-raid...

Joanne Dorrington-How Will Father Christmas Find Us?

Joanne Dorrington-How Will Father Christmas Find Us. We stayed with friend s from Flixton over Christmas,...

My Grandparents Story

A Polish soldier, named Joe took a friendly shine to my Nan and was situated next to the door of the ward...

Home Guard Days in Clayton by Dan MacFarlane

The Second in Command was Tommy Lang, licensee of the aforementioned “Humphrey Cheetham”. Tommy...