Northamptonshire

Evacuation in 1944

My father stayed in London with my elder brother, one of my sisters was in Nottingham where she got...

Moulton - A Village Near Northampton

I went to the village school with my sister Jean and remember the gas mask drill and going into shelters,...

Wartime Memories of Evacuees in Long Buckby

Standing that evening at our gate with my friends we watched evacuees from a school in Shoreditch, London...

Plane Crash 5/4/1944: Rothersthorpe, Northants

For the memorial, the Parish Council made contact with the families of all the members of the crew and we...

1943 - A Country Blitz

Usually we slept under Morrison Shelters which crowded our living rooms like oversized iron dining tables,...

War Boy

My father was a policeman in Battersea, and air raid siren was on top of the police station... We used to...

Rations in Northampton — Alys Clarke

My dad said “You can have three pennorth, the same as everybody else”, but the lads home from...

Childhood Memories in Wartime Northampton

That year they opened a nursery school for little children in Victoria Park –by then I was 10 I had...

Making ATS Tunics in Burton latimer

I was a teenager during the war and worked at Thornlow and Clarkson's, Alexander Street in Burton...

The American Club in Northampton's Market Square

The Yanks used to bring us sweets and cakes and things for Mum to make, because in those days you could...

Wartime Memories of a Northampton ATS Girl

We lived in Tanner Street, near the gasworks, in Northampton. I was stationed at Purbright Camp for two and...

The start of it All — Alys Clarke

In August 1939, I was a Girl Guide, and I went to Belgium with the Guides, and stayed in an annexe of...

The Buried Sandbag

The coffin only contained sandbags to give it weight. Indeed, the sandbags were still there when the coffin...

Wartime Memories of a Nortampton ATS girl

We were then posted to Purbright Camp in Surrey, this was the base for the Brigade of Guards, and there...

My Homemade 'Siren Suit'

My mother made for my sister and I 'Siren Suits'. Siren Suits, so named so that when a siren...

When the Bombers Came Over

We only had a few high explosive bombs dropped on Kettering but I was told the German bombers kept a few...

Evacuation: From Walthamstow to Kettering

I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...

The Rat Catcher

I was a teenager living in Foresly Park near Daventry in Northants. My dad was employed by the War Ag, and...

'Do You Know Me Daddy'

My father was based in Iraq during the war- he was in Basra for the duration of his service... She put the...

Harrington Memories

A Heinkel came down above Rothwell Cemetery and Mr Guildford from the farm tried to get the crew out with...

Home and Away — Alys Clarke

My father was on fire-watching duties at a notorious red-light pub, the Criterion in College Street. When...

Loss of a Family: A Bombing Raid on London

I was born in 1933 the youngest of 8,7 boys and 1 girl.When the bombing started in 1940 I along with 2...

Childhood Memories

We, as a family had moved to Brackley in 1943, away from London and the Blitz. My father had served in both...

Life in the Womens Land Army

The last place had beef herds and arable so I did ploughing and sugar beet 'knocking'. I was...

Putting on a Show For the Troops

Marjorie May Perkins talking to UCN Community Volunteer at Gabriel Court, Kettering, Northamptonshire. My...

Village Life in the War

I was annoyed that I didn't get a Mickey Mouse gas mask like the younger children, but instead got a...