Teesside

Busy Wartime River Tees

The people of the Tees valley worked hard for the war effort, people like Uncle Raymond with his Hangers...

Spam: Did It Save The Nation?

A very good friend on the site pointed out that the name Spam was coined in 1937 in a competition by Hormel...

My Memories of WW2

As a consequence, when the Air-Raid Siren sounded, I was carried across the road to the public shelter...

Childhood Memories

Eventually rations books with coupons for obtaining food were issued and you registered with a grocer or...

Every picture tells a tale...

Lynn says, “My mum stayed at home in Middlesbrough and worked for Price's Tailors whilst my dad...

A Night at the pictures

We had two Cinema's in Norton, an old one called the Avenue and a nice new one called the Modern. We...

The Day War Broke Out - Sunday Lunch and Sirens, Middlesbrough

On Sunday morning 3rd September 1939 we were piled into the car Mother Father My younger sister and myself...

My War Experience

Hartlepool is a very narrow town with sea on 3 sides to the north was the moor where the soldiers and guns...

Bunking school in the bunker

Middlesborough was a steel town and a prime target so my brother, John, 7 at the time and I were bused to...

Pre-school Life in the 1930s

When my sister was born, in 1935, we moved into a brand new council house, with penny-in-the-slot meter for...

Our War

During our time in Devon we joined the Girl Guides. I remember a big parade through Exeter and a service at...

Wartime Memories

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

Our Air Raid Shelter

Two air raid shelters were erected in our street - my family lived in Middlesbrough as my father was a...

Marjorie Denton's War

The steel industry and the nearby shipyards were prime targets for the German bombers. Two other brothers...

Growing Up in War Time

As a Child I lived in Hatherley Street in Middlesbrough and was nine years old when the war started....

Ghost Train

My mother sat me on top of the pillows in the pram, then opened the door onto the black night. Soon, the...

Homesickness and Fleabites; a Story of Evacuation by Harry Frankland

I live in Croydon now, only 2 — 3 miles from Mitcham where I grew up, and Croydon had the most buzz...

Tales from Wartime North shields

Father took my brother and I to an Inter services Boxing Match at Appleby Park Football Ground. I was about...

Barrage Ballons

Living within an area, which was bounded by Shipyards, Steel Works, Railway Marshalling Yards, and one of...

Bombed Out!

Walter was married and living in Thornaby Place, the last house on the left and of a peculiar shape as it...

Grandma Purnell: Life in Billingham

My father worked at "ICI" Billingham and as he worked in the oil works producing fuel for the war...

Tinned Peaches

Tinned pears or fruit salad were most common but very occasionally we got what my mother called peaches....

In A Hole

I suspect Diamond Road ws in line with one of the airfield runways. As the war progressed aircraft would...

A Bunch of Bananas

Amid the excitement of Raymond's homecoming my mam took the bananas and hung them in the window to...

Wartime Memories of Middlesborough

We had an Anderson air raid shelter in the back garden, complete with five bunks and straw mattresses. My...

gimme shelter.....

My parents had not finished work on the "Anderson Shelter " in the back garden, so they had an...