Cheshire

Childhood Memories until 1941 of Wallasey Cheshire, including the Blitz

My brother was born on 21st December 1940 and due to the bombing my mother decided it was safer to leave...

War at The Green

Mum, my sister and I were standing by the wide-open bedroom window watching Ack-ack explosions and tracer...

Experiences at Home during WW2

As Germany's bombing offensive intensified, we lived directly under the flightpath to Liverpool...

Childhood Memories in Dukinfield

My brother and I were allowed to take one toy each, I always took my doll — Stella and my brother...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Cheadle Hulme by Lew Grepp

I attended the Johnathan Robinson School on Church Road, Cheadle Hulme. I remember a teacher, MIss...

Memories of My Uncle John's War by Sheila Moorby (Nee Lea)

My Father looked down the street and said "It's a telegram". My Mother said "I bet it's...

The War Begins: Childhood Memories of Manchester and Hale

Back in Old Trafford life was back to normal for a while and I remember seeing from Longford Park Stretford...

Wartime on the Wirral

My Dad had been a soldier in the First World War and he joined the Local Defence Volunters, which later...

Childhood as an Evacuee in Cheshire

I was evacuated to Grappenhall when I was 7 years old, because both my grandparents were ill and my Mother...

Keeping the Flag Flying in WW2

Land girls had extra cheese, bacon and cake rations... My last move was to Audlem Hostel — ‘The...

Keeping the home fires fed and other rabbiting stories

One day Reg and I; farm dog and gun arrived at a large field, rose a rabbit near a gate ... Reg's...

Manchester children evacuated to Poynton, Cheshire by Peter Heaton

No doubt registers were called and a large group made teir way to the local railway station named Belle Vue...

The Brady Twins Evacuation Story by Marina Partridge and Muriel Wiltshire (nee Brady)

We then went to Wilmslow in Cheshire to stay with the Chadwicks. We also went to Wilmslow to visit the...

With the Home Guard: The First Step Towards Service with the North Irish Horse

The unit was based in St. Hilary's Church Hall, home of the 15th Wallasey Boy Scouts. I was Scoutmaster...

Memories of Life in Wartime Stockport by "Peasticks"

In case of an alert the spotter pulled a piece of string and a piece of cardboard flapped up and down on...

Memories of Wartime Audlem

The Free French matelots stationed at Doddington Hall had an alleged taste for deer and of course our dear...

Olwen's memories - September 1939

My mother and my aunt had joined Queen Anne's Nursing Volunteers attached to the 12th Cheshire Regiment...

Bob's Story: Childhood Memories of Sale, Cheshire

My sister was born in 1930 and my brother in 1938 and we all lived on the Woodheys Estate between Sale and...

Warrington 1939-1943

My decision was to protect our home and family from the Luftwaffe by digging an air raid shelter in the...

Evacuated! Bomb Scare!: Childhood Memories of Nantwich in Cheshire

This is a picture of my father, Sam Barlow, standing beside a bomb which had been recovered from the middle...

Wartime Memories of Audrey Manifold

Audrey Manifold is the niece of my maternal grandmother, Ellen Sellers. Audrey grew up in the Mottram area...

Memories of a Girl Guide in War-time

I was 9 years old when the War started, and I was a member of Congleton Girl Guides, who met at the...

Tales from Tarporley

The whole village gave pots and pans and donated food, bags of potatoes and cabbages. Where we lived near...

Noreen Sargent's Wartime Memories of Chester

We had no bombing in Chester but the planes went over for the bombing of Liverpool and once they offloaded...

"Watch out for the ditch Alice"!

This was the start of a fantastic relationship for them both and Alice and Jim later became Mr and Mrs...

“LIVERPOOL IS GETTING IT TONIGHT”

Apparently during the previous night's raid and whilst the bombs were actually dropping, they had...