Bedfordshire

Mustang Crash, Wilden Beds

About 1945 when I was 16 we somehow learnt that a Mustang fighter aircraft had crashed by the roadside at...

The Royal Observer Corps: The eyes and ears of the RAF

When I first left school, I worked for th Minister of Supply as a shorthand typist, sometimes, I did...

My Dad in WW2

In 1942 my father, Eric Mears, who was a Bedfordian, joined the Home Guard... When the air raid siren went,...

Bombs over Bedford

The bombs demolished Steele's sweet shop, next to the Royal County theatre....

Biggleswade Memories

We lived near Biggleswade, and I can remember the Germans dropping flares on their way to bomb Coventry....

Evacuated to Bedford

Some time in 1939 I was evacuated to Bedford with my eldest brother Fred, and my sister Joyce. Fred pushed...

Memories of Amercans in Bedford

Every evening, up to 10 lorries would bring personnel from Thurleigh Airfield and possibly other airfields,...

On the Move Again

On the Move Again...

Memories of World War Two

I started school in Shefford but continued at Rushmoor School in Bedford from just before the war... In...

Making friends in the sausage que

Every friday morning during the war I used to join a que outside Sears the Butchers shop who was notid for...

David Langdon Evacuee

When I was 2 an evacuee from London called David Langdon, stayed in Acacia Road in Bedford.He was a...

Telegrams at Bedford Post Office

One day a telegram came through it was to the family with condolence of Sir Henry Wood's death and of...

'Waiting for the King'

One day we were told that the King and Queen would be passing by on the way to Thurleigh airfield where a...

Childhood During the War

My parents went to great lenghts to transport my brothers and mine our beds to under the stairs - thought...

Dereliction of Duty

One night the alarm sounded and I should have reported to my C.D. Post in Castle Road Bedford... When I got...

Happy Endings Part 3

I have many friends in Bedford over the years we still meet... I have known Joan Butler our teacher for...

Living in Luton During the War

In 1940, just after coming back home from school, I had to go from my house to the shelter I looked up...

Living On A Runway

I was born in Cranfield, Beds. in Merchant Lane just across the road from the RAF airfield... Another...

The War in Bedford: Explosion on Midland Bridge

I was just over 5 when I saw a stray German bomber drop its load which I said at the time was...

Aircrash in North Bedfordshire

Aircrash in North Bedfordshire...

Narrow Escape

As a school girl I used to cycle over the Midland Boad bridge to my school in Horne Lane which was the...

German Spies in Bedford

I remember that my father was at the railway sation in Bedford one day, when he noticed a couple of nuns on...

Exploding Incendary Bombs

The first incendary bombs that exploded were dropped on Bedford in 1943 I think....

Ministry of Labour

I started in Letchworth, and was sent to the training centre, but they changed their minds and sent me to...

Grandmother Memory

As a young girl living in the country I remember that when the bombs came over my grandmother used to put...

German Bomber in the Sky

As a young boy, i was walking up the side of the school, when i noticed a german aircraft in the distance,...