Norfolk

One of the Lucky Ones - Part 1

My dad took me from Lowestoft, where we lived, to the middle of Norfolk to stay with my auntie and uncle...

Memories of a Dartmouth Youngster

Dartmouth was a balloon station for ships proceeding up or down the English Channel, When not in use these...

Memories of the Norwich Fire Service

To start with I worked in the office at the fire station which wasn't very different from the Norwich...

Friends Reunited with Memories of Air Raids on Norwich

Edna Gray and Sheila Rayner were old school friends in Norwich. For Christmas both Sheila and Edna recalled...

Evacuation and a London Childhood

We left on the Ford Motor Company Jetty, Dagenham on the River Thames. My brothers and I handed up at...

War Time Reflections of a Norwich Man

The following two years were given over to gun practice on a mobile Bofors Anti-aircraft gun and an...

Memories of Chasing Rabbits and Souvenir Hunting

As a Boy Scout I soon learnt to deliver messages in the pitch dark, from Old Lakenham Hall over fields,...

Recollections of World War 2

In those days, an army barracks known as Albany Barracks adjoined Parkhurst Prison where my father was a...

Violets for Vera-the death of West Tofts School 1942

In 1942 about a thousand men , women and children were compulsorily evacuated from Stanford,Tottington and...

A Fighter Pilot

It all started at Uxbridge where I did my initial training to become an A.C.2 I then joined the RAF at...

A Schoolboy in Wartime Norwich

So, Mum, Dad and my brother of 18 months were huddled under the kitchen table whilst the bombs were falling...

A Family Returns to Norfolk

In 1944 Father was finally transferred to West Beckham radar station, near Sheringham in Norfolk. During...

Spooner Row in Wartime

At about the same time two bombs were dropped closer to Spooner Row by a German plane flying back from a...

The First Year

Illustrated magazines and posters showed us how to recognise German soldiers even if they were out of...

The Bombing of Norwich

One bomb must have fallen very close indeed when the shop window was blasted in, the cupboard door slammed...

Memories of Wartime Mile Cross

My name is Vic Elvin and I live on the Mile Cross estate in Norwich and was a pupil at the Norman...

Ballet and World War Two

Even in war-torn Britain there were still things like ballet schools for little girls and I was lucky...

The Evacuation

The bus stopped and we got out and a lady told me I couldn't stay with my sister, because there...

A Wartime Wedding

The whole village helped with our wedding, giving Mum little bits of their rations... We weren't...

A Young Mother in Wartime Norwich

The bombing got worse and David, a young lad who lived next door, helped me to get the children into the...

A Small Boy's Thoughts and Experiences in World War II: In Norfolk

Suddenly all hell is let loose, Small Boy is hauled from his bed a bombs explode all around to the...

Letter to my Sister

What a night! one old lady dead in one bedroom, another as bad as she could be in the other, Tony and...

Life as a Child in Silfield

Another bomb landed near Silfield Street on Mr and Mrs Bond's land. Some were taken to Tibenham and I...

A Bicycle Made for Two

All Charles's friends were either at home or abroad fighting the War so he persuaded a work colleague...

Memories of American Airfields Near Norwich

We did a similar thing at Horsham St Faith's airbase. While my Father was at Tibbenham, James Stewart...

Surviving a Direct Hit from a V1 'Doodlebug'

We were evacuated to North Norfolk not only because we were homeless, but because it was considered a safe...