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My War: Evacuated from Harwich to Thornbury Part 2

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Forces’ Life — Leonard (“Nobby”) Clarke

Then, without any training or instruction, I was given transport to Bourton-on-the-Hill where a company of...

War Years at Grandmother's Home

We were self-evacuated to my grandmother's home in Stroud, Gloucestershire... My only experience was...

The Bombing of Parnalls Aircraft Factory of Yate

My parents were licensees of the Railway Hotel in Yate during the War and of course they were very busy...

The Old Ladies Bonfire at Night & Booking the USAF

There was a similar case of a bonfire burning up and it was a local builder, he was found guilty, but the...

Ivy's Story

At another RAF station, I had the misfortune to see one of our bombers crash on “take off”, all...

Wireless operator during World War 2 with 190 Squadron

First of all we went in with gliders then paratroops and later when the paratroops were cut off we started...

My War: Evacuated from Harwich to Thornbury Part 1

IT was getting dark when arrived in the town of THornbury Gloucestshire,we had travelled right across...

Innsworth LACW's Scratchy Knickers and other Memories

We were issued with 3 shirts, bra and 3 ‘blackouts’ which is what we called the scratchy...

Anderson Shelter Proves a Boon - to the Neighbours!

And in the little block of houses that we were in they all said, ' Oh no, we shan't need anything...

My Dual Contribution to the War Effort

I do hope they had a quality control programme in place, or some poor soldier was going to get very cold if...

Bombs and jet plane:Childhood memories in Gloucester

I have always been puzzled why there was a lone plane in daylight bombing Gloucester....

My Evacuation Memories

It was quite a shock after living in London with all mod cons. I still have a wooden tractor that was made...

Desperately Seeking Shelter

There was a daylight raid on Filton airfield on a Wednesday.I was playing in the garden and I remember...

Silk Stockings

It's silly but I remember I was wearing my first pair of silk stockings... My Granny had no injuries,...

From Fairey Swordfish to the Admiralty

I joined the family firm Blackburn Aircraft which had a shadow factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet making Fairey...

WW2 Excerpt from Leap like the Deer

'Hanging Hitler' at the VE Day Street Party

Massey Road was bombed during the war and and between four and six houses destroyed and there was this...

Wartime Evacuation

For some of us schoolchildren this was a great adventure.When we arrived in the Gloucestershire countryside...

Schoolboy Messenger in the ARP

Pupils came from Winterbourne and Watley's End, and I was one of these messengers....

Annie Hughe's War

During the war I lived in Shevington near Wigan and worked locally as a shorthand hand typist, I was later...

The Day Our Street was Bombed

We lived in Townsend Street, Cheltenham, which was very near to the railway line and the gasworks. Townsend...

Gloucestershire - growing up in the co-op during the war

I lived in the Co-Op depot in India Road in Gloucester where daily deliveries of bread, milk and coal would...

A Teenagers Memories of the Build-Up to D-Day

My pal, Leslie and I had heard that the Yanks were at Frampton-on-Severn and so that Sunday in June we set...

Wartime in Cheltenham

Dad's Army in Filton

During the 'phoney war' when nothing much happened, there was a big car park down at the back of...