Norfolk

Evacuated to Norfolk

I had a good mate, Derek, who was also from London, and because he was a big boy he prevented us from...

Doing My Bit

In September 1939 I was in the Commercial Sixth Form at the Blyth School in Norwich. I also helped at St...

Munitions Work in Norwich

I trained as a milling machinist at Norwich City College for three months, and then they sent me to...

Child’s Play in Wymondham

We lived in a tied cottage belonging to Cavick Farm, near Wymondham in Norfolk. They were staying with the...

War Time Recollections: A Child in Norwich

Memories of the ‘Green Dragons,’ USAAF 389th Bomb Group at Hethel Old Chapel

Memories of the ‘Green Dragons,’ USAAF 389th Bomb Group at Hethel Old Chapel. June 1943 to May...

In the Army

When I got my call up papers I went top Pembroke Docks in Wales. It took from 7am to 2am the next...

Olden Days in the Country

I remember the day that Boulton and Paul's Riverside factory was bombed... At about 5 o'clock in...

A Schoolboy's War

My Dad worked away from home, building hangars on the airfields, and me, my Mother and my brother used to...

The Baedeker Blitz April-June 1942

On April 27 and 28 the bombers drone woke us again and then the thump of bomb bursts made us aware that...

INSIDE THE SHOE SHOP

A regular called at my dad's shop was the caretaker of the Baptist Church and he would take all our...

Childhood Dramas

There had been a Samuel Jones paper factory just round the corner and that had been bombed and caught fire....

Mother Riley Remembered and Cromer Beach the Day Before D Day

When stationed at RAF Swannington in 1944, I – along with many other Air Force personnel was invited...

Top and Bottom of 14

My task was to go with a chap called Bingy, tying wheat into sheaves as he moved round the field ready for...

Airfields and Americans

My name is Les Willis, now aged 75, so any remembrances are tarnished by the passing of 60 years since the...

Sgt to 2nd Lt and Back Again

In the prevailing situation prisoners were a problem but Andre volunteered to conduct them to a place of...

An Evacuee to Wymondham

Betty, Tony and I were taken to West Street Pier, Gravesend by Mum and our aunts. Betty, Tony and Joan...

Wartime experiences. April 8th, 1941

Later that evening my brother came home with the news that he had assisted to direct a fire engine around...

J.C.Dodman Crew

The J C Dodman crew joined together at March Field in Riverside, California in September for crew training....

A Child Growing Up In Rural Norfolk

During World War II I lived with my parents, older sister and younger brother in a small village called...

Childhood in Wartime

I lived in Norwich throughout the war apart from ten weeks in Tharston after the blitz on Norwich. At...

Evacuated from Dagenham to Melton, Suffolk

I just remember lots of children with gas masks and labels going down to the jetty to board a paddle...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Hethersett

Being in Hethersett, five miles from Norwich, we could see Norwich being bombed and on fire, and hear the...

East Ham to East Anglia

We knew we were travelling east towards the conflict and eventually the train slowed down at stopped at a...

MEMORIES OF BUNWELL SCHOOL

One Christmas the American Airmen invited the children from Bunwell School to their Old Buckenham Base....

A Mother's Story

I tried to pack some things up, but a man came and told me not to because there was an unexploded bomb...