Bradford and West Yorkshire

Mrs. Porfitt - Wartime in Birkby and Huddersfield

The other warden working in the Birkby area was Mr. Milner, a vet....

Working in Wartime

In September of that year I got a job as a junior clerk in the office of the Managing Director of Charles...

Schoolchildren during World War Two

On a lovely summer morning we all arrived at the railway station,wheeled our bicycles into the guard's...

Elizabeth Street

Both the British and Italian Soldiers used to come to our house and use My Mum's piano... As a child it...

Do You Remember, Bradford Air-Raid May 1941

I had always assumed the aircraft was a single-seater fighter like the Messerschmitt ME 109, as my Father...

War Time Memories in Stanley by Tom Stennett

As a Royal Fleet reservist, my father was called up in August 1939 and joined the leading destroyer...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-1948 Part 1 & 2

What was not expected were the orders to report to The Prince of Wales Colliery, Pontefract for training as...

Christmas in Wartime

Christmas times dad would paint tomato boxes and put wheels on for trolleys and make wooden bricks for the...

Guarding the Coal

The orderly sargent came back about two hours later to find dad sitting down on the job and commenced to...

An Ossett Child's Memories of World War II

Another aspect of the war was that a large number of troops - Royal Signals - were stationed in Ossett up...

Visit to London

When the war started I was 20 years of age and lived in Featherstone.I had only been out with my boyfriend...

The Spy Stood Up and Up.

It's not hard to imagine how she felt, on her own surrounded on two sides by fields and allotments, a...

A Memory of War

I remember waiting at Southall Station with my mother, clutching my suitcase and wearing a green crotcheted...

The Trials on the Home Front in WWII

I worked as a textile worker at the outbreak of WWII; most mills were already processing army, navy and...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 5

On one uneasily spent night, as my two sisters and I sat quietly along with our grandparents in the house...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England: Part 6

My cousin George William, confined now in a German POW camp, informed my mother in one of his letters that...

Jean Farrow -My Dad was an A.R.P. Warden

My Dad was the Engineer at Harrops Mill in Gawthorpe and when the war came he joined the A.R.P.. He got a...

Wartime Childhood memories.

My Father kept the butchers shop and because of poor health did not pass his medical but became Chief...

Childhood in Bradford and Nelson.

The thing I vividly recall is when my headmistress at Hanson School,Bradford, when I was eleven, announcing...

A War Baby's Memories of Bexley, London and Yorkshire by Edward Roy Skinner

Warm shrapnel I was a war baby born in 1939, we were living in Albany Park in Bexley....

Woman about Town

One afternoon, Hubert, our very Yorkshire chief reporter, sent me off to do an obituary of a well known...

A Boyhood In a Wartime England; Part 3

On one occasion in Dean Wood, Mr McLennan, calling the class register at four p.m. after a long afternoon...

A Schoolboy's Memories of Wartime Wythenshawe by Alan Riste

The Home Guard was originally Local Defence Volunteers, but we thought of them as "Look, Duck and...

Dressmaking Lathe Operators

We listened to Neville Chamberlain announce at 11 o`clock — I have had no reply from Adolf Hitler so...

Special Wireless Operator ATS

I did not travel far as my training centre was at Queen Ethelburga's School in Harrogate... We learned...

A School in Our Front Room

When we had the Bradford bombing, we had a bomb four doors away and our windows were blown out. I was...