Cheshire

The Evacuees

We lived at No 3 Elswick St Liverpool 8, Mother, Father, me Joyce Coleman, and little brother Robert James...

Wartime Entertainment

My childhood was spent in Stockport, Cheshire, which is now part of Greater Manchester... We were to become...

Christina's War: Evacuated to Chester

We were introduced "Mrs Ledsham, this is Christina from Liverpool". The waiting was over. I stayed...

Living in WWII as I remember it

There was one story of the boys taking down the chimney of the outhouse, where the coal was locked up. The...

Rural Cheshire In Wartime

As we lived in the countryside you may think that we had a quiet time but we had a few bombs in...

Evacuation

I was evacuated with my older sister Margaret from Wellington Road School, via St. Michael's Station,...

How WW2 Affected My Gran: Living on a Farm

My Gran went to school on the bus to Chester and she and her friends had to take their gaskmasks to school...

Life in Kelsall During the War

In school we used to get rationed condensed orange juice, and a chocolate coated cracker - two each, not...

Macclesfield Memories

We had evacuees at our school and I particularly remember Olive Green and Olive Boardman, one was from...

The Cold that Saved Two Lives - Raid on Cheadle Heath, near Manchester

At that time, my father was abroad fighting in the army and my mother, Elsie Welsh, then aged 31, was...

Childhood Memories of Mrs Ann Sergison

Home was a tenant cottage in the grounds of 'Aldersley Hall' dad worked here in the market garden,...

Childer Thornton School

We were in our classroom listening to the Teacher when all of a sudden the door opened and the HEAD came in...

Air raids in Warrington

I was playing in one of my friends garden when we spotted a small aeroplane flying above it had what we...

Evacuation

We called Mrs Dutton 'Granny' and Mr Dutton 'Grandad', they had a daughter we called...

Our American Hero

Tom and Nan were crying when a truck load of G.I.’s stopped to ask where they were going and why they...

A Refugee for Evacuees & Soldiers in Congleton

I wasn't at home at the time. I did a lot of helping with these evacuees — particularly with the...

In Bed with Incendary Bombs: Childhood Memories in Cheshire

Before mother had time to take me down into the cellar two incendary bombs hit the house - one came through...

Bombed Out

We saw the Spitfires attatcking the Germans and hour an hour later came the incendiary bombs... A teacher...

A curios incident

My cousin often tells the tale of the aftermath of a trip to pick bluebells... My cousin failed to hear any...

Evacuation by Ann O'Neil

We unloaded in a field with an apple orchid and with all of the evacuees being from Liverpool I doubt that...

The Little Dutch Boy

I had an aunt in Crewe who took in a little Dutch boy... Auntie made sandwiches for tea one day, the boy...

Cheshire Childhood War Memories

Occasionally I accompanyed my father to spot the German bombers overhead on their way to bomb Liverpool. I...

Hiding Under the Table

I can still envisage it in my mind and we worked out I was only one at the time. I can also...

Memories of my Mother during the War

An Amercian flag which has flown on the Capital in Washington DC is held in Nantwich Parish Church when it...

Shipbuilding and night manoeuvers

During the testing of the first of these on the River Weaver, huge quantities of water were dispelled from...

Evacuees: Guernsey to Cheshire

Rita's parents had moved to Guernsey and they and her elder brother were taken to Germany as slave...