Manchester

The Death Camps

I joined several other lads at the Recruiting Office in Reading, from there we went to Kings Cross Station...

My Life Before

My brother in law was in the merchant navy and travelled accross the seas... My memories of WW2 are still...

Memories of life in wartime Manchester by May Barlow

During the bad winter in very deep snow I walked to Burnage where my boyfriend lived then and from there we...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Adswood by Bill Birch

I lived in Adswood and remember an aircraft of the USAAF making a forced landing on Clutha Road playing...

Manchester Blitz: Evacuation and My Blind Doll

FRom my bedroom window I looked out to the famous Kinder Scout pass - a very different view from my bedroom...

A Child's Memories of the Manchester Blitz by Jack Oldham

We heard this whistling or screeching sound getting ever closer, and I recall my Uncle Percy, a World War...

Evacuation from Hong kong

Mum says she had a really happy time there despite the worry of not knowing the fate her dad, John/Jack...

Manchester Blitz 1940: The Worst Night

My Dad was in hospital in the Manchester Royal Infirmary; my mother and younger sister had been evacuated...

Catherine's story

I remember one night I could hear a whistling sound - I was in the kitchen stood on a stool playing with...

Manchester Grammar School pupil during WW2

I slept behind the piano and Jean behind the bookcase....

The Night I Slept through the Air Raid

At that point I realised that we had slept ALL the way through the raid on Salford Docks. My Grandad, the...

Evacuated to Darwen by Patricia Hayes (nee Roberts)

Evacuated to Darwen by Patricia Hayes. My twin sister Betty and I were evacuated with the school to Darwen....

The Night We Were Bombed

The bombs were dropped in a zig-zag pattern and my father said that probably the plane was being chased by...

A Schoolboy's Memories of Wartime Wythenshawe by Alan Riste

The Home Guard was originally Local Defence Volunteers, but we thought of them as "Look, Duck and...

Eileen's story

Two years later I met an RAF navigator officer called Lewis Harding.He was also known as "Curly...

D Day

Some time in spring empty houses were requisitioned by the US army, and we woke up one morning to find that...

Bailey bridges, built by Thomas Storey Ltd, Stockport

Born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, a graduate of Sheffield University, Donald Bailey worked at the Experimental...

Training to Be a Fever Nurse in 1939

In 1939, the same fear existed at the mention of Poliomyelitis - Meningitis - Diphtheria - Scarlet Fever...

A Sign of Things to Come

Mum was a girl in the First World War so she knew all about rationing and shortages that were to come. Mum...

A Night in the Blitz

The girl I was going home with had a little boy and as we went down Whitworth Street the sirens went again...

Wartime Memories: Manchester

Most people had a shelter built in their gardens and covered with soil and grass but my father cut a...

Wartime Oldham

I remember during the war — the blackout — no street lamps, all the traffic with only small...

Betty Taylor's Story

Father was a chemist and he used to get issued an extra supply of ground- nut oil and sugar that he used...

In the Cellar

On one occasion, I remember my dad was out fire watching when the Air Raid sirens went off and my mum had...

The Manchester Blitz 22nd/23rd December 1940 by Alan Lambert

On emerging from the shelter it was obvious why, as the centre of Manchester was ablaze, and the bombs were...

Memories of younger days gone by

We lived in Beech Hill Avenue in Wigan. I remember one foggy winter we had to walk all the way back to...