Nottinghamshire

**** Your Budgie

On the night of May 8th 1941 or2 the air raid siren had sounded and as usual my brother and I along...

A Wartime Child: Bunny, Nottingham

Our family lived in the village of Bunny, in Nottinghamshire. My brother, 2 sisters and I, would often see...

D-Day Remembered

I was then a pupil at South County Junior School, West Bridgford, Nottingham. On 6 June 1944, the...

My world war 2 story: A Child in Nottingham

When I got to them, I heard my mother say "Poor thing, she's wet herself with fright". Another...

Romance for the Sergeant's.

Ben was a Divorcee who was raising 2 little sons, the boys were to be cared-for and educated at a military...

A Chance Meeting

On his return to England he was sent to Nottingham and put in charge of the German prisoners at the POW...

Mansfield Market

A lady stood in Mansfield Market selling Ice Cream which was very powdery... We heard that the lady had a...

Evacuation to Mansfield

I was evacuated to Mansfield to have the baby with more mothers who were expecting... I registered the baby...

The War Years: Working as a Milkman and for the Petroleum Board

WHEN I WAS ON THE MILK ROUND WE HAD HORSE PULLED CARTS, AND THE MILK WAS RATIONED AND YOU HAD TO REMEMBER...

Memories of Evacuation

In 1939 I was evacuated with my sister from Brixton Hill to my aunt's in Gamston, near Nottingham. The...

The Lace Market Gets Hit: Nottingham

Apparently,before she was called up for work in munitions,she set out for work as usual in the famous Lace...

The Raid on Nottingham in 1940

My garandfather Mr Huntbach lived on Morley Road Mapperley also in the house was his daughter my Auntie...

Grandma and the Sergeant-Major

Family legend has it that sometime at the beginning of the war,Grandma looked out of her front windowto the...

Victory Babies

The sister ran in shouting excitingly "The War is over, come on Maisie lets have a victory baby"....

Memories from Mansfield

I grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and we had an old cellar in the bottom of the house. I recall the...

Dad's Size Sevens

My father was 25 at the outbreak of the war and,was I think, in the first draft of conscripts.His initial...

Fire Watch

Whilst researching my family history I came across this entry in the local newspaper dated 26 Mar 1943. My...

Land Girls

I lived in Warrington till i was 18, then i joined the WLA and was moved to Farndon. I lived in a...

What I Saw

One day during my childhood I was in the garden when a aeroplane came over the house, it was that low it...

Evacuee from Birmingham

In September 1939 when I was 8 years old, I went as an evacuee from Sellyoak, Birmingham to...

Memories of a Six Year Old Girl.

I recall the announcer telling the nation that we were at war with Germany... My father was later called up...

Black Market Chicken

I went in a pushchair to next village to butchers with a cardboard box in the pushchair with 2 chickens in...

Evacuation: From Nottingham to Birmingham and Vice Versa

My Nanny was evacuated to Nottingham from Birmingham. My Grandad was evacuated to Birmingham from...

Evacuees to Edwinstowe: 1939

Evacuees to Edwinstowe: 1939...