Cumbria

Going to live in Windermere

I screamed and my father jumped out of bed and tried to get out of the front door, but it was jammed...

Identity Cards & Gas Masks

Dad was number 1, Mam was 2 and my younger sister was 4. We sat behind a man with a newspaper and...

War for a Country Boy

We would be sent to an aircraft crash, and occasionally we would come across bits of bodies — arms,...

Memories of an Evacuee: Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Cumbria

What transpired was that the government of the day had put into action a mass movement of children from the...

Anecdotes from Warwick Bridge

After Dunkirk, when a German invasion was highly probable, the war office ordered all signs and names of...

My Evacuation to Whitehaven

She was a very smart,upright, strict but courteous lady.Her husband, Steven was a bus conducter, they had 3...

"A Child's Eye View of the War"

I came across the wet grass in my plimsoles with my mongrel dog for company as always... As I settled down...

Memories of a Young Boys Evacuation

My sister was 9 and I was nearly 5 and we were first billeted together in Bardsea across the bay from...

Colour-Blindness

It transpired that colour-blind people can 'see through' camoulflage - I certainly could... I spoke...

Audrey's War Time Story: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

My mum and dad sent me to my Aunt and Uncle on the outskirts of Barrow, which was a safer area... Then...

Pat and Angelina O’Brien: well and truly married in Greece

During the war, Angelina met and then married her husband Pat O'Brien in Athens, Greece. In August 1946...

War and the Farmer - The Home Front

In 1939 my grandparents were farmers in the little village of Calthwaite, in Cumbria... German and Italian...

Life in a Cumbrian School

My Grandma was 8 when the war started, she was the oldest of 5 children.Her father was in the Scott's...

From Carlisle to the Commandos

When the Commando unit was being set up Blackie was one of the first to volunteer and their CO put...

Currock House

My father was called up to the intelligence corps and had a pretty excting war leaving his war bride in the...

Absent Home Guards and German Invasion in Warwick Bridge?

It was a Sunday morning and I was delivering the milk to a lodge of Warwick Hall near Warwick Bridge. Our...

What Life was Like for Farmers in WW2: In Cumbria

This face was of an evacuee from London. It took a while for my grandma to accept what had happened, but...

My Lost Uncle

When my father joined the navy to fight in the war,my mother and I went to Penrith in Cumberland to live...

1939/1945 My War: In St Neots and Glenridding

Although born in Bedford, by 1940 I was living at little Paxton,going to St. Neot's for School. I...

Ingenious Mr Pitcher

Officer was posted to RAF Cark from Squiresgate, Blackpool... Mr Pitcher was an ingenious man and as they...

Wartime in Barrow-in-Furness

I was a child when the war started 1939, I was 4 years old,we were living at 15 Stuart street on Barrow...

American Bomber

At the age of 5 years old I was evacuated in 1940 from Newcastle upon Tyne to Whitehaven. It was confirmed...

A "Thank You" from the Other Side

Having been taken prisoner of war during the campaign in Brittany weeks after D-Day, this then young German...

The Spy I Never Knew: Childhood Memories of Kendal

My Grandad lived in kendal during the war and during that time he met a young boy of similar age called...

Small Events I Remember Well

As an 11 year old Girl Guide I was camping at the small village of Hayton, near Carlisle when VJ day was...

" And the snows came "

This was Haverigg, one of the early Navigator Training Schools, home of the deaded Blackburn Botha, the...