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Mr John Bolton, Banbury / Felixtowe

Mr Bolton was born and raised in Banbury Oxfordshire... He stayed in the RAF for another six months,...

Machine-gunning in Henslow Road

From our backgarden in Henslow Road, Ipswich, my father and I saw a German plane machine gunning our...

Ipswich Wartime Schooldays.

One of the first sights we had of the war from Ipswich was the dog-fights during the Battle of Britain....

Snippets from a Wartime Childhood

My most vivid memory of the war was getting out of bed quietly so mum and dad did not hear and standing...

Illness in War-time

My father, Henry Easty, had been injured during the First World War, and had a job to keep the family...

The Radio, Ipswich, and Arnheim.

There was still a bomb crater in Holywells Park when I was a child, and my sister took me to see it....

Devotion to Duty

One of my deliveries consisted of driving a large mail van full of parcels and letters for our sailors...

Starting Work at 15

When I was told, I would be a messenger, from Lother Road school to Bourn Park Bridge. All of s kids were...

A Foxterrier in an Anderson Shelter.

My dad worked as a Progress Chaser at Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries, which was converted to war work. Towards...

Collection of Wartime Anecdotes

My mother mixed her rations of butter and margarine together to make 'butmar'. She made her own...

Life on the Gainsborough Estate

Helmut Klopner and Fritz Kopitski were prisoners of war came to lunch on Sundays. He boy Keith Peek next...

An Explosion at Ransomes, Ipswich.

He went to work at Ransomes, the famous engineering company in Ipswich, just by the docks. Ipswich suffered...

Bures, Sudbury, Ammunition Trains

Trains arrived from docks such as Grimsby and Tyneside delivering high explosive bombs for storage at the...

St John's to Leicester.

At St. John's Primary School I used to go out and watch the barrage balloon when it went up. Reproduced...

A Very Lucky Little Girl

This dolly used to disappear every Christmas and Birthday and appeared on the day which suited... I had an...

Sheltering Under Hedges

Emma comes from a Gypsy Traveller family and has been living on the West Meadows Traveller site in Ipswich...

A Very Close Shave

Just at that moment a German fighter plane suddenly flew straight down the middle of the road with machine...

A Mine in Cemetery Road, Ipswich.

A Mine in Cemetery Road, Ipswich. Reproduced with Colin Rushbrook's permission by Ipswich Museum....

Decoys for D-Day

In May-June 1944 when I was about 15 I used to cycle to Northgate Grammar School along Heath Road and...

Making Uniforms: In Ipswich

I lived in Henley Road in Ipswich... We started at eight, and worked on a conveyor belt, each adding their...

Born in an Air Raid

I lived in Chevalier Street in Ipswich, and my sister Olive lived in Bramford Road. I remember one night...

Childhood Memories in Woodbridge

My earliest memory is “Doodle-Bugs” droning over our house at Woodbridge, the siren blaring...

The Arrival of the Americans

They came round in a truck to take us up to Raydon aerodrome and they'd deck a hangar out with...

Near Miss: Friendly Fire near Ipswich

Apparently a British shell had come inland, came in through the wall just above my aunts head, continued...

In the Salvation Army Hall

I can remember being at the Salvation Army hall, and when there was a raid, we all used to shelter under...

I Went to London

I was only a baby in arms but we went to Sundury in Middlesex to my Aunty. There we stayed until one...