Cumbria

Private Stanley Carruthers and family of Scilly Banks, Cumberland

Like my father's family, Stanley came from the small village of Scilly Banks, near Moresby Parks in...

Home Fires Burning: Childhood Memories of Carlisle

My uncles worked in the fields while my aunts tended the livestock, made butter and gathered vegetables and...

“At rest, her duty nobly done.”

- At 10 Countess Road, Bransty, Whitehaven, on Wednesday October 24 1945, Betty dearly loved daughter of...

Teenage Memories of WW2: Part2: Moving to Carlisle

Once across Shap Fell, the van trundled down into a built-up area that we all assumed to be Carlisle... The...

My Time with the RAF

I'd come off a 12 hour night shift, and had been asleep for about an hour when a man from the Orderly...

On Being An Evacuee

In my case this meant being put on a bus for Beaumont, on Beacon Hill, where, having lugged our trunks...

Memories

Wherever we were billeted we were expected to go out all day whatever the weather, so Mum used to go down...

One of Lady Astor’s ‘D-Day Dodgers’

My Dad was William Leslie Renney from Cockermouth and known as Leslie. In 1946 after being discharged from...

‘5186379 - My Story’

From Bristol we went to Ludlow Shropshire, then out to France where I joined the fighting unit of the 5th...

A Whitehaven Miner Remembers World War Two

I left school at fourteen and began work at William Pit in Whitehaven. As stated in the above account,...

One Child's War Part 5 A Wartime Country Holiday by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

With summer term ending at school, the August date soon arrived, which saw both of us carrying suitcases...

My Mothers' Experience of World War II - Memories of a Young Girl

My eldest sister, Doreen, was working in a factory making tins and I went to work at Carr's Biscuit...

Cumberland Miners' Representative in World War Two London Victory March

One of my uncles was Tom Ritson who represented the coalminers from the county of Cumberland in the World...

Evacuation to Cumbria

I was not to remain with them on Mersy-side, however,but was sent to my aunt and uncle's house in...

Childhood Memories: In Whitehaven

I have vivid memories of my childhood throughout WW2.I was born in the year 1936, in the town of Whitehaven...

Dunkirk Evacuation and Normandy Landing

In June 1944, like many other thousands of troops, James was involved in the Normandy Landings. James was...

Memories as an Evacuee

I was with a school friend called Billy Roberts, when a woman came up to me and said, “I'll have...

Escaping from the bombs

My father said that it would be safer if my mother drove the four children up to the Lake District, and...

Evacuation

David was ill all the time we were there znd after a lot of thought my mother wnet back home with him,...

Childhood War Memories

In the first week or two there came to Carlisle boys and girls as evacuees from Newcastle and Tyneside...

The Lake District

I was evacuated in September l939 from Todds Nook School in Newcastle upon Tyne along with my two brothers...

My Teenage Years in World War 2 By Vera Warriner.

Although our parents always seem old to us when we are young, my father would only have been 42yrs old at...

My Wartime Childhood in Hounslow

My father had a great aunt living in Carlisle who we had not seen before, and we were going there away from...

The Hut

All windows down, cigarette tips working up a fug, after-lunch chatter and Lieutenant Knowles stood by the...

One Frightened Child

The society was the Waif and Strays, but later changed its name to The Church of England Children's...

The Kelly family of Whitehaven during World War Two

In the above account, Pat mentions one of his elder brothers, Henry was awarded the Military Medal while...