Bradford and West Yorkshire

War Time Evacuations

I believe Mum and Dad sent money to these Aunts for us to stay there but I'm not completely sure about...

R Tindall-I remember: Childhood Memories of Llandaff and Huddersfield

Our house was very near to the cathedral at Llandaff, Cardiff, and on the night the German bombers...

A Yorkie's War

Both York and Guildford suffered heavy bombing raids and Dad lost many friends when where he was stationed...

From Office Girl to NAAFI Manageress

As I was a member of a Dancing School I had a very busy time, we gave displays almost every week, in...

Childhood Memories in Barnsley

Eggs were the hardest things to buy, you could go several weeks without eggs and then you would get 6 weeks...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood

I am aware that Bradford was not a main target for enemy bombs, although the one time when a bomb hit the...

A Child at War:Stanningley West Yorkshire

This did cause some consternation to my parents when I sauntered into the kitchen and placed it on the...

Leaving Home for the first time: Joining the ATS

I was then posted to 62 VRDat Byron Park, Ferrybridge and it was great. When 62 VRD closed my friend and a...

Evacuation to Scrooby

The village we were evacuated to was Scrooby in Nottinghamshire and as every "red blooded" American...

A Boyhood in A Wartime England; Part 4

My cousin Ernest was already writing letters home from the Sind Desert in India: to me, his youthful face...

SIX YEAR OLD BOY MEETS HIS PILOT

Tom recalled his priority training as a RAF pilot in "Pathfinders". Enemy bombs had been...

Wartime Baby

Tobruck had fallen to Rommel, the so called Desert Fox, and the Eighth Army had started to dig in at El...

With The Canadians

I was eventually posted to the Royal Canadian Air Force 410 Mosquito Fighter Squadron, 11 Fighter Group, at...

An Interview With My Gran

Eggs we only got once a week so we used them all a once on a Sunday as a huge shed load...

Mrs Hewitt -Quite unforgettable: Hospital Trains at Wakefield Station

The railway station was damp, cold and extremely dark as we stood at the end of the platform waiting for...

Mind That Crane !

I was operating an overhead crane, making parts of bombs until 1943 when my daughter was born... I had to...

Betty Sykes -Memories

I sent off for all the papers and I went into work and said to the secretary "I want to join the...

Bums in Washbowls!

A favourite perch for the smokers was to sit with bottoms flopped inside one of the many washbowls. She...

Late Entry Evacuee

Sometimes dinner money would be spent at the bakers. For a long time we only attended school in the...

Featherstone Home Guard

We had Canadian Ross rifles-303s- delivered to the pit yard covered in grease which we had to cleanoff, and...

Farm -Life in War-Time

There was also a ‘Fido’ there, this was a lot of oil drums in a field, these were lit to...

Mrs. Barraclough - Wartime memories

I left school at 14, and in my first job I worked with a very nice lady who had a son in...

It Seems like a Bad Dream........

For a start we were at Aldershot in a reception camp, and from there sent to Halifax to a divisional...

The Shelter

My dad, who was in the territorial army, was on home leave, when on the night of 14th March, 1941, the air...

A QUESTION OF TIME

Things were quiet most of the time where we lived, but one night a bomb dropped into the back garden of a...

A Family That Lived Through the War

Bernard my eldest brother was a Centre Lathe Operator who started with Jeffrey Diamond, manufacturers of...