North Yorkshire

Nursing in a convalescent home for servicemen

My call up was to be sent to a place called Nun Monkton priory, which was and still is in the village...

Volunteering for the W.A.A.F.

When I asked what the job entailed I was told it was either watching a radar screen with an arrow circling...

A Happy Evacuation (from Hove to Upton, Yorkshire), But ...

At the time the family consisted of Mum, Dad, me, an 8 year old boy and my 6 year old sister... I...

Mother and her Messcherschmitt

My Father was in the Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment, a platoon sergeant, and at this time he and his...

Dad's Army Memories

Peat has been taken from the moors for many hundreds of years, and in the mid 19th Century the Dutch Moss...

The Anderson Evacuees

So, in September of 1939 all the evacuees from Brighton Road School in Bensham, Gateshead, boarded the...

Bombed Out by a Butterfly Bomb

A Butterfly bomb had dropped into Grandads back yard and blown the rear of the house off ! Pop = Lemonade...

The Unexpected

The Very Pistol was stored in a holster on the starboard side of the aircraft near the F/E's positon in...

LIFE'S A PAIN AIN'T IT

My name is Charles H Matthews, during the Second World War I came to stay in Harrogate at the Majestic...

Barbara’s Memories 1942 — 1946 Fishergate School York

My sister Sheila was eight years older than me, and worked at Rowntree's Chocolate Factory in York,...

Wartime to a Child

I remember one when the four of us children rode in an army lorry full of paper with a big notice, "ALL...

War Baby's Family Contribution to WW2

At the very beginning of WW2 my father was a volunteer policeman and my mum was a voluntary nurse... On the...

Taking the Burn out of Burniston

My grandfather , Fred Wood, aGarage Proprietor,lived in a small village on the southern edge of the North...

The Crash of a Messerschmitt ME210 at Sunnyside Farm, Fylingdales on Sunday 6th September 1942 at 11.45 am.

I was 15 years old in 1942 and had been residing at 'Holme Denel, New Thorpe, Robin Hood's Bay...

Evacuation from Leeds

I remember being issued with a gas mask in a brown cardboard box, waiting outside school, with other...

Journey through York

It was run by middle-aged men "over the age of conscription" and so were directed into this...

Towthorpe Bombs

A while after this we had an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, so about 200 German prisoners of war to...

Wartime Memories

I had to walk to Blackhall station on some shifts as there was no transport from Heselden to Blackhall at...

Romance

My father & mother's story - At 19 & an apprentice electrician in Chelmsford, Essex Ken was...

Friendship

Grandad kept chickens, geese, cows, goats and pigs, he also had a small allotment and orchard... He showed...

A Yorkshire Schoolgirl

By 1947 I was bolder as asked permission to sell poppies at “the Camp” – this was a POW...

A Child's Memories of the War

I well remember being evacuated with my two brothers to a village about 20 miles away carrying our tins of...

Wartime Norton

I remember when bombers came over Malton they flew more or less roof top height. There were 2 picture...

The Phantom Paratroopers

All manner of weapons were dug out, old bayonets sharpened, large pepper pots placed in all rooms and by...

Outbreak of War and Travel to India

I had come home from India to go to school in England but due to the war it was decided that I...

Me and Mister Hitler: Childhood Memories in North Yorkshire

A giant bonfire was lit on the village green, and it was this that symbolised the end of the war for me,...