Joan Quibell's Diary

Joan Quibell's Diary Part Five - May to December 1942

More huts had for some time been under construction at Hercies Road — not Nissens like ours but...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part One - War Declared

Towards the end of my time at College, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and a lot of talk about war was being...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Two - 1939-1940

The British Navy had destroyed many German U-boats and forced others to flee for safety into neutral...

Joan Quibell’s Diary — Part Three- 1941.

The night before, 9th April, Coventry was badly bombed again and it seemed the practice of our enemy to...

Joan Quibell’s Diary — Part Four - 1942 (January - May)

I found a good friend in Joan Cattell and I loved my spare time wandering around York. Enemy hammers gave...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Six - 1943

It was here in “G” typing pool that I met Marjorie McIver, Joan Lindsell, Doris Keane, Queenie...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Seven - 1944

When I was cowering in the hut listening to the sickening screaming of the bombs and the barking of the...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Eight - 1945 A Wartime Wedding

Les and I bade each other a long and lingering farewell in the late afternoon and he and Ernie returned to...