Cheshire

Nursing Typhoid and TB in WW2

Typhoid Fever During the final year of my training as a nurse, there was an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in...

Margaret's Story - An Evacuee in Stockport

Cousin Edna had six children between eight and eighteen months with her and her widowed mother was also...

Hardships and Hardwick

If gas and mask experience was rated as the worst minutes of army training, this form of punishment was...

From Yugoslavia to Dukinfield

However, he and his men always retained their loyalty to King Peter and to General Draza Mihailovic, the...

Working on the Suicide Squad: At Risley Royal Ordnance Factory

I caught the bus from the Punch Bowl at Atherton to Leigh and then another bus from Union Street to Risley....

'Hold her hand and don't let go' by Thomas Rose Pannell

The story of our evacuation I was the oldest of three children born in Manchester to Arthur Pannell, a...

Remember to Never Forget - the Birth of a Monument

Fifty-six years after the crash, she flew to Cheshire, England. Three years later, an email enquiry arrived...

D-Day Memories of a Paperboy

My D-Day story took place in a small Cheshire village, ten miles from the city of Chester, called...

Olwen's Memories - Make Do and Mend

As knitting wool was on coupons, garments that had seen better days were unravelled, the wool wrapped round...

The Air Raid Shelter: Building It, Surviving in It, and Mam's Prize Exhibit

Mam didn't like the idea of walking on bare soil, so Dad had to make a floor of duck boarding....

Saving Lives with Special Flying Suits by "Marjorie"

Concerned that airmen in the Lancasters were losing fingers and toes with frostbite, Mr Eric Taylor...

Childhood memories of wartime Hazel Grove and Great Moor by Joan Phipps (nee Smith)

"On 3rd September 1939 I was six years old and was playing in Beech Avenue, Hazel Grove, when one of my...

A R.A.F. barber at Hooton Park by Bill Stafford

Bill Stafford's Memoirs 1 - A R.A.F. barber at Hooton Park. As I got more settled at Hooton, I made...

Life in Cheshire during World War II

We didn't get a lot of bombs on Chester; mostly the bombs were for military targets and ports. Evacuee...

"A Child Remembers"

I was born 2 years before the war started and as a child I remember my Mother saying'I'm sorry son...

Camberwell in South London to Warrington and Back

Although I remember very little about leaving London or actually arriving in Warrington I do remember that...

Rambling Reminiscences of WW2

We lived at the time Mum, Dad my elder sister and me in 2 rooms in Packington Street. It seemed prudent at...

Marie Wells: My Life during the War

I went on duty every Sunday voluntary at Manchester Royal Infirmary - we also took our collection boxes...

Wartime in Widnes: My Memories

Wartime in Widnes, My Memories. My name was Muriel Coombs and I am one of five children, two girls and...

My Childhood Memories of World War II

I remember when the German bombers came over, us children knew the difference in the sound, then the siren...

Snapshots 3

The material came from one of the weekly jumble sales ; some old wool coats, in different colours not too...

Evacuation 1941

They were about the same age as me and my brother and we all slept in the same room - me and...

From enemies to friends

I was only 11 at the time, but I remember there was a build-up to the war and in August 1939, Daddy's...

War Baby

My family Grand Parents, Mum, Dad & older Brother was then in great danger because we lived very close...

CHESHIRE MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II

After bookings had closed for the night we would all walk round to her home in the flats at 49 The...

Brunt's War

To introduce myself, my name is Peter Brunt and I lived on a large dairy and arable farm, Sudlow Farm in...