Nottinghamshire

Wartime Teenager

Hickling and Son, Wine and Spirit Merchants, of Chapel Bar, Nottingham, and he had to take his turn at...

Ashborn as an Evacuee - and 50 Years Later

Right opposite our house was the air raid warden's office and they informed my mum that the bomb had...

Royal Armys Pays Corps /Musical Memorys of "George Mitchell Choir"

What a life my late Father had to the grand age of 90, he was born on 30th nov,l913 at Derby he...

Evacuated to Newark

I had been at grammar school at home and now had to go to Newark grammar school we were not welcomed -...

The Lancaster Family: Evacuation to Nottingham, Loss of a Father, Work as a Clippie

The Lancaster Family: Evacuation to Nottingham, Loss of a Father, Work as a Clippie. When the blitz started...

Memories of Country and Town During the War

My father was a prison officer at Wakefield Prison and we lived with my Granny not far away from the...

The Evacuation

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

War Memories: Bombs, Evacuation and Porridge

He had a dislike of the evacuees and called us “a load of London sewer rats running away from a few...

Memories from Second World War

It was after a subsequent more terrible raid that I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940”...

Evacuation during World War II: South London to Banbury

I knew something was wrong, however, when a large luggage label was tied to my coat buttonhole and I was...

Young Soldier Finds Kindness in Nottingham

We eventually discovered that one of the ways of making these straw mattresses more comfortable was to wear...

The Eccentric Encounters of a Four Year Old Evacuee: From Great Yarmouth to Stanton on the Wold

The Eccentric Encounters of a Four Year Old Evacuee: From Great Yarmouth to Stanton on the Wold. We were...

My Cold And Hungry War

On Saturday mornings my older brother and me had to push the babies’ pram all the way down London...

The War Years in Nottingham: Nightly Air Raids and the ARP

Like most houses our house had a cellar which Dad re-enforced with timber to provide a shelter from any...

A Child's Eye View of WW2

Born in 1938 I was a young child during the Second World War, and I remember much of it, particularly the...

A Rookie's Tale

Page 1/6 by Jack Nicholls After- my first night in the Army, I was awakened, at Reveille by the lad in the...

Evacuation to Scrooby

The village we were evacuated to was Scrooby in Nottinghamshire and as every "red blooded" American...

Dad Couldn't Afford to Pay the Cost to Keep us as Evacuees

We lived in Sheffield — Pitts Moor — and myself and 2 brothers were sent to Watton, in...

The Night we were Bombed

My parents must have had an agonising few hours as we heard that the local dancehall had been hit by the...

How Chain-Smoking helped Me become an RAF Pilot!

After 8 hours I solo'd in the Tiger Moth... And the minute I got out of the Tiger Moth I was jumping...

Pre-School and School-Time in Wartime

I remember being taken everywhere by my grandma in a push chair even to the age when I was around 5 and...

Pony Girls

I was old enough to do some war work, so I heard about an Army Remount Depot that needed girls to look...

Berlin (2)

Our Radio Operator was replying to a challange from our own guns when an American operator cut into the...

The Story of an Evacuee

In the meantime I had passed the 'scholarship' for the Southen High School for Girls, which had...

Whacker's son was a Lancaster pilot

I believe that Mr Richardson told me that the son had visited Spain in the war and had met up with German...

Land Girl (J.Shakespeare)

Shortly afterwards I joined the Land Army. I left the Land Army in 1948, just as it was winding down....