Norfolk

Christina Ward-Land Army Girl

I was a Land Army girl sent from Ravensthorpe to Norfolk, and I had never been any further than Leeds. One...

Cromer at War: A Schoolboy's View

In 1943 when the Germans started their bombing campaign, Cromer was often the target of bombs which were...

Scraping By in Wartime Norwich

He didn't come home straight away but spent time in hospital in London, Aberdeen and Norwich. When he...

Memories are Made of This

My dad told us to sit down on the stairs, he then pulled the living room door and the front room door...

Bombs on the Lizard

My father, knowing they were bombs, shut the door quickly and the bombs landed near the railway line, on...

Community Spirit

Norfolk's geography and proximity to the continent meant that we spent more time in the shelters...

A Wartime Childhood on a Farm

I can remember what is now the Heartsease Estate being an airfield and there being all fields around where...

VILLAGE DESTRUCTION

Although in the village of Haveringland the airfield was known as Swanington, partly to deceive the...

Memories of evacuation

I was evacuated with 3 of my sisters on September 4th 1939 from Wandsworth to Witney, Oxford. Fortunately...

Schools, Anderson Shelters and Shops: Childhood Memories of Norwich

It later became a bus station and after that a car park....

Ellen Doherty's Memoirs of WW2: The Mother-in-law

One night the Germans looking for the BSA bombed our house instead with oil bombs, a neighbour threw water...

Geoff Claxton's Memories 1938-45

The newspapers talk of Adolf Hitler and his No. 2 Hess, the man with green eyes. we go to Norwich city my...

A LIBERATOR CRASHED IN NORFOLK

The farmer who lived nearest to the crash, Harry Rush, rushed out and realised airmen were still trapped in...

On a Norfolk Farm in Wartime

They lived on the Plumstead Road near the prison in a bungalow they had had built for them – it was...

Motherhood in Wartime

The first night of bombing in Norwich there were no guns for protection, but they then put one up at Nelson...

Norfolk Wartime Memories

My Dad was essential personnel, working on the aeroplanes at Coltishall. Sometimes they closed Coltishall...

J A Martin DFC - Second Tour with 'Sprog' Crew

We started our trips on Sterlings and then went to Feltwell to finish on Lancesters; but Wireless Operator...

Wartime Memories

I was sixteen years old and have a vivid memory of standing in the kitchen at Gresham's School near...

Loss of LJ888 Over Norway

Further more the Germans had located on the S.E. coast of Norway a radar station at Risor and a night...

Working for the American Red Cross

She had evacuee children to stay and when the bombing got really bad in London she had two tailoresses to...

Lasting Memories

We were evacuated to Kings Lynn in Norfolk, and for the first four weeks we were billeted with a very...

CYRIL SMITH’S MEMORIES - BOMBS TARGETED FOR WYMONDHAM RAILWAY LINE

The Germans dropped twelve bombs, starting at the Rec down Browick, across the Rec and Meadows; one behind...

Sunshine in the Shadows

Working at Margaret Hill hairdressers on Tombland, Norwich I would give the ladies a good shampoo hoping...

Working in Wartime Norwich

My Mum was worried because my brother was a couple of years older than me and was in the boys’...

The Themelthorpe Land Mine

One landed at Blue Tile Farm Kerdiston and the other, having broken its parachute coupling, fell in a lane...

A Walk Around the Square: Sheringham, Norfolk

The square was down Alexander Road turn right into Garden Road, a rough sandy stone road about 300 yards...