Manchester

Childhood Memories of Growing up in the War

I went to a church school in Stalybridge and when the sirens went off we used to cross the boys playground...

Evacuees from London

On the Saturday we got to Dane Road Station to find that there were a number of buses in the car park...

Bofors Guns and Blue Suede Shoes

I went into the Engineering works making Bofors guns at Patricroft near Eccles in Manchester. Ted and...

The Day War Began -James Annison

At the time I was working in an humdrum job in an Umbrella factory then on that Sunday my Birthday...

Our bomb

We sat in deck chairs in the shelter and we could hear the planes and hear bombs exploding and...

One Child's War Part 7 A Family at War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

One of her grandchildren, one of my cousins, was in the A.T.S.. She drove “top brass” military...

Evacuated to America and Back Again!

My two sisters, Anne and Alison, were sent to a local nursery school called Peter Pan and the story goes...

The Manchester Blitz, Christmas 1940

My mother took my little sister and one of my brothers across the road to a friend's house and the ARP...

War Memories of a Schoolgirl from Dartford

My uncle arrived to take my cousin back to Manchester and I went with them because my parents thought I...

Keeping things Going at Home

To help my mother and keep her company, her sister,Aunty Maggie, and her young daughter,my cousin Joyce,...

A Child's Memories of World War 2: Living in Manchester

My father's sister lived in Stockport and said that as she looked up Wellington Road towards Manchester...

A Manchester Police Runner

This didn't seem to me to be a sensible use of time and effort at a period of extreme crisis in the...

Jean's Life in Manchester

The job was with CWS On Fairfield St. near Piccadilly in Manchester... By this time I was living in...

Welcome to the World

The darkened room was in fact the living room of our house in Droylesden, Manchester. The house was not...

The Night of the Blitz: In Manchester

I remember walking four miles into Manchester City where I worked, through glass, rubble, water, etc. With...

The War Begins: Childhood Memories of Manchester and Hale

Back in Old Trafford life was back to normal for a while and I remember seeing from Longford Park Stretford...

W.A.A.F. Barrage Balloon Operator to Flight Mechanic

See: Manchester Bomber Crash in Holmpton, East Yorkshire 14th January 1942 - Part 1 and Manchester Bomber...

Wartime Memories of an ARP in Reddish by Gladys Jackson (nee Fearnley)

Wartime Memories of an ARP in Reddish by Gladys Jackson. One night there was an air raid and the Ack Ack...

A Day in the Life of...

My siren suit was always there ready and she soon slipped this on me, telling my elder brother to follow us...

Childhood memories of wartime Salford and the Manchester Blitz by Gordon Graham

One night during the Manchester blitz my friend and his family were sheltering there when his sister and...

Toddler's Tale: The Manchester Blitz

On another occasion he went for a pint of beer with my grandfather to a local pub and as they walked home...

Glimmers of The Far East

Being born in Salford, my dad was "Billited" in a Mill in Littleborough just outside Rochdale.So...

The 1940 December Blitz of Salford

I left the depo in Sait James Street at 6pm in the evening to make my way to the ARP post which...

Alan's Story

I always remember a friend of mine who was in the SAS, commando unit, said that the first time he stuck a...

Evacuation from Manchester

A young couple from Blackpool called Robinson, with no children of their own, took us in and we stayed at...

Lucky Lads

My brother Raymond worked as part of a bomb disposal squad, a brave team who defused more than 30 bombs....