Cumbria

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Childhood Memories

At a Christmas party at the R.N.A.D. depot at Broughton Moor, footlights arranged for Father Christmas to...

Childhood Memories

One night a German plane was lost over Gretna Green and as he still had a bomb on board, he had to...

Working in Wartime

A few years later I had my gall bladder removed and my stones were as yellow as gunpowder. We worked mainly...

Wartime wild country: Army Training in Cumbria

The unmade road up the Tilberthwaite valley was used for various military manoeuvres during the...

Induction in to Army life

It was a story my late mother used to tell about her first encounter with a sentry at the barracks she had...

Patrick Morton

Sent at once to a cottage in Gidden Morden, Hertfordshire. We were remote from danger; our headmaster...

Trouble with a Geordie

That was until one day my Granda found a letter that the evacuee was sending home to his mam... So she...

My Grandparents in WW2: Two Medical Students and a Miner

My Grandad in WW2 was a medical student at Great Ormand Street Hospital in London... My Granny was also a...

Interview with My Great Grandad: Memories of Cumbria

>Not much, all I really remember is that my Uncle was killed fighting in the war...or maybe that was...

Interview with a Family Member: In Cumbria

Were you living in Cumbria when world war 2 was going on. *Yes your nana was alive during world war 2, but...

A Burner for the Sunderland Shipyard During the War

My name is Alice Finley and I worked in Doxford's shipyards in Sunderland....

Kelly and Her Family during the War: In Cumbria

My Uncle Denis had a farm. quite a big one with cows, sheep, pigs and horses. the horses were lovely,...

Life in Cumbria: Childhood Memories of Silloth

We had to walk two miles to get there, no matter what the weather was like.We had to do choars and we...

Inside the gida

My Father, Bill Abbott, inside his little gida, smoking his pipe. Christmas, a time of happiness,...

Life in Cumbria

In the war he was to young to serve in the war and lived in the lake districk with his mum and...

The William Pit explosion at Whitehaven, 3 June 1941

He was employed as a haulage hand and a member of William Pit Home Guard. James's funeral service was...

Examples of how a local newspaper played its part in the war effort

When I consulted the back copies of the 'News' at the Cumbria Archives Office I was able to read...

A wartime evacuee from Newcastle-upon-Tyne revisits Whitehaven

As mentioned above, Flight Lieutenant Crook happened to be in Whitehaven on 14 October 1943 and was one of...

Wartime experiences of some of the Burney family of Whitehaven, Cumberland

Before and during World War Two ‘Bish’ and Bella Burney lived in a house on Queen Street,...

John Burney MM: Bravery in both World Wars, on different Fronts.

I have previously written an article about some of the Burney family's experiences in World War Two,...

Some memories of life on the Home Front

The four people seen in the photograph taken at Southport are my Granddad Ned McCrickett, Aunt Betty, Uncle...

Sons and daughters of Egremont, Cumbria who laid down their lives in World War Two.

In addition to the 27 names commemorated on the War Memorial in the town centre, I found two additional...

Meeting up again, many years after the war.

In 1940, 5-year old Tom Coyne and his older brother Bob were evacuated from Tyneside in the North East of...

Two Border Regiment ‘Pals’ who died in Burma

Additionally, in their hometown, the names of Gilbert Ellwood Pearson and John Richardson are commemorated...

Mary Ann Savage working at Haig Pit, Whitehaven.

The 'Screen Lasses' who Mary Ann worked with at Haig Pit, Kells could be aged anywhere from the age...