Bedfordshire

Memories of an Italian Naval Signalman Part Eight - Repatriation to Italy in April 1946. Return to Westoning, Bedfordshire in l

But at Flitwick they were getting the Prisoners of War from a camp the other side of Bedford and here at...

My Boyhood Wartime Memories: Luton

Various ramshackle buildings were constructed with my reluctant help, to which over a period of time,...

Memories of an Evacuee 1939

By the time I started at the Commonweal my brother and I were the only child evacuees from our group still...

Aniseed Balls and the Limpet Mine

But the interesting thing about the limpet mine was that it was very much Bedford home-made... They then...

Good Comes From Evil: Part 1

I spent my early years in care with the Middlesex County Council and lived with 11 other children in...

War-Time Memories of Biddenham, Bedfordshire

The next time the Army came to the village was for about three weeks and we had in the field by the...

Civilian Life in Dunstable

The factory was based on the corner of Green Lane and Tring Road in Dunstable. Later on we had a Polish...

The Earl and the Secretary

She was employed by the Ministry of Supply as secretary and personal assistant to Charles Henry George...

Cardboard Icing

I had heard all about wedding cakes and the fact that they were coated in Royal Icing which appealed to my...

A Perry in the Pram

A Perry in the Pram...

Dorothy Taylor-How I saw the Second World War Part 3

There were dances held in Saltaire in a room under Salt's library, at the Lakeen in Shipley and also...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 1 (Chapters 1 and 2)

My Battery of the Beds Yeomanry had its Headquarters in Ashburnham Road, Bedford which wasn't far from...

Dorothy Taylor- How I saw the second world war part 2

We rarely got new clothes except at Co-op ‘divi’ times, when Mam would collect the dividend...

A Wireless Operator's Tale, Part 2.

So, I went through and took various tests and a sergeant came along and said, “Now then...

Our Loss in Hughes Mansions, 10 May 1941

The unhappiness of my sisters prompted a phone call home and soon we were taken back home to Hughes...

My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 2 - Bedford Modern School in wartime

Again I think it's quite illustrative that I remember one morning, it would be a Saturday morning, I...

My First Evacuation - Chapter 2.

The lady in charge of ‘operation evacuee’ locally, one of the junior-school teachers I think,...

My wartime memories of Bedford as a schoolboy Part 1 - Outbreak of war and going up to Bedford Modern School.

My wartime memories of Bedford as a schoolboy Part One — Outbreak of war and going up to Bedford...

My First Evacuation - Chapter 1.

Which is how two 6 year olds managed to greet a total stranger on the back step of her home I, with...

Childhood Memories of Evacuee Life

I think mum thought that it was too dangerous for me to go again, so I would stay with Uncle Sid and...

My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 4 - The 'Home Front' and the evacuation of the BBC Symphony Orchestra to Bedf

My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 4 - The 'Home Front' and the evacuation of the...

The Old Dunstablian Who Never Became An Admiral

Finally reaching HMS Pembroke i.e. Chatham, the first sailors I met were the survivors from HMS Goodall...

Memories of the Women's Land Army and Other Wartime Memories

Training at the Midland Agricultural College The trainee Land Army girls who had been sent to the College...

A Country Vacation

Having been allocated a number of evacuees but not specific children the villager would then choose one...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 1 - Schooldays at Training College School and Bedford Modern School. My involv

He contacted my father and came down to Bedford and the two got on very well - they'd known each other...

Thoughts on Wootton (Beds.) at War

On the last Saturday in September we arrived home to find a lady waiting for us with four young boys sent...