Suffolk

Wartime memories

I chose to stay in Ipswich, and went to live with friends... While living with my friends, a lot of time...

Number Please!

Thus it was Doreen Hogg became my personal instructor and after some 6 weeks I was able to take up my...

Plotting Planes

Until then, I had been working in the Tyne Brand factory, which manufactured meat paste. I was posted to...

Evacuee: North London to Mickfield

When the V2 rockets started coming over my sister, brother and I were packed off to Suffolk to a village...

1st 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne

On reaching the coast of England at Orfordness, at 800 feet, it was obvious that we could not make the...

Huge landmine near Ipswich cemetary

The bomb disposal squad were working on the bomb for a week or 2 and we were still at my aunts when...

What really happend on the East Anglian Coast line in Summer 1940 ?

Why has there been people from Germany and Belgium come forward claiming convoys of badly injured German...

A Family at War

As Dad pushed me and mum into the next room, the windows blew in. Dad and the neighbour threw me to the...

How Manuals to Run a War Get Written

I don't have a pension because one was the Luftwaffe when I was off duty, one was friendly fire from...

The Memories of Eileen Cooper as a Child in Oulton

I was only 8 years old when World War Two broke out, but I have many memories as that was the year...

A Child's War

I can rememeber singing 'Ten green bottles'. Another thing I remember is taking a tin or jar to...

Charles Aldred Memories

Early in the 1940s after Dunkirk and the Home Guard or L.D.V. as they were then known had been formed, me...

Doodlebug Attack on Melton, St Audry's.

Doodlebug Attack on Melton, St Audry's. During the first years of the War I lived in Melton, near...

German P.O.W.s Potato Picking

Each day a group of about ten German POWs arrived in a R.A.F. lorry and guarded by one...

Victory for a Small Child: In Metfield, Suffolk

As a small child, I tended the local village school....

My Sister and I

When we were eventually evacuated to Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk my sister made friends with a girl from...

A Wartime Bakery

I remember that the Americans from Raydon used to use my grandfather's bakery to make their dough when...

Land Girls at Foxhall Hall

I was at William Pretty's and when the war started we could volunteer for the army, the navy, the...

Oulton Broad at War

One night a bomber had been over, and had dropped an incendiary bomb which had gone right through the large...

My War Exploits

In 1939 we got on a ferry boat called the Golden Eagle at Dagenham Dock to Lowerstoft. Back in Dagenham I...

Full Circle

Last summer I took my Grand mother on a shopping trip to Bury St Edmunds and as it was a lovely sunny...

War in the area of Ellingham, Suffolk.

War in the area of Ellingham, Suffolk. He fell down on his back on the telephone wires alongside the...

Memories of an ATS Girl

As I was in a reserved occupation I should not have joined the forces, but 3 weeks before I was due to...

Childhood Memories

Robert: At the time I lived at no 10 Austin Street in Ipswich backing onto the Conservative Bowling Green...

Was This A Dad's Army Success?

In 1941 the Home Guard had been formed and my Uncle Willy being a First World War veteran was put in charge...

A Wartime Smallholding

And some chickens, especially the cockerels, would be sent to Ipswich or Colchester markets. When my...