Tyneside and Northumberland

The Berwick Home Front

During the war we lived by the river tweed, very near the royal border bridge, which was but constant...

Shedding Light:410 Coy 5th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers ( 53.S/L Regt. RA)

Company HQ was was in Debdon Gardens Drill Hall and sites I served on or visited were Ryton, North Wylam,...

What the WRNS did in North Shields

I was a supply officer in the WRNS my WRNS officer was very strict but she was good... Our WRNS officer was...

War on Tyneside

The radio was all-important especially ‘Children's Hour’ and ‘Toy-town’ and...

Our Memories of Evacuation from Newcastle to Cumbria

Some of us left the train at Warwick Bridge, and were taken to the church hall; the host families selected...

Life on an Athel Tanker

During the war the carrying of molasses was largely replaced by cargoes of oil and petroleum.In my diary...

Hell Hath No Fury

For instance, when German fighters attacked our fishing boats in the North Sea — legitimate enough, I...

Caught: Memories of a Mars Bar

I was born in November 1939 in Rowlands Gill, County Durham, two months after the outbreak of World War...

On the Land: In Northumberland

On the land Hilda Humpherson. I was called up for the Land Army in 1944, and I went to a farm at...

The Tyneside Raider

So down to the shelter the citizens streamed While overhead the searchlights beamed, Striving to pierce the...

War Recollections of Val Burn from June 1940 to December 1945

The Nelson, and, I think the Rodney battle-ships, Victorious, Indomitable, Indefatigable Eagle, and Furies...

McCollum family World War 2 Memories

Mum was by then back in Newcastle, living with her best friend for the rest of the war, and that same time...

Bill Taws Story: Childhood Memories of South Shields

The second bomb was reported to have gone down the funnel blowing the engine room to smithereens and a...

My War

We watched as my brother was taken away by an old lady with grey hair and an unsmiling face, but I held...

Life On The Anti-Aircraft Gun-sites WW2

After Oswestry we, that is a full team of 24 G.L. Girls together with the gunners and A.T.S. instrument...

Memories of a Child (Part1)

On arrival at Nana Smith's house, Mam collapsed in an extremely undignified heap and was only revived...

Wartime Childhood in a Northumberland Village

During the war there was understandably a blackout and as there was an army camp in the village, sentries...

A Breath of Fresh Air: Part Two

I remember Mr. Holland sitting some evenings with George, teaching him to read and write. Mr. Holland made...

Two Wars Part Four

These we would have to leave with the Partisans at the Swiss border up in the Alps, prior to entering...

Tweedale's War: Part 1 Into the RAF

This was June 1941 and the next time I saw Jack Mullins was in February 1988 when we met at Hollinwood...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 3

COUSINS” — CHRISTINE'S SUMMARY - Now living in America — she relates, after her birth...

War Declared part two.

In the meantime the committee, as behooved a good governing body, tried to consider every possibility of...

Childhood in Ryton, Part 2

You could only get the bus from Ryton through Scotswood as I remember. And he got off the bus at the top...

Memories of a Child (Part 2)

In recent years I have come to realise how much impact my Dad's death really had on me and I have...

FRANCIS GEORGE CARTER HEATH

Elizabeth Donald and Francis George Heath met when Liz was only sweet 16 and Frank 18 years. Liz wore White...

Memoirs of Lieutenant IGN Lindsay 1939-1940

It seems he was either 1 of the 2 silhouettes shown on the well-known bit of footage of a boat approaching...