Gloucestershire

American Forces

American Forces...

Keeping the People Fed (A Grocers story)

Cheeses came whole with a Linen Rind which had to be stripped off, a horrible job. Our shop was in Filton,...

Orphan Schooldays

We were also told to flatten all tins to stop escaped prisoners using them for drinking.We had snap...

Getting Shelter at the Works

I can remember when the soldiers were marching up Filton Hill, past the airfield, when there was German...

Evacuation

During the blitz of London in 1940, an incendiary bomb, dropped from a German airplane, struck our house...

Back from the Dead!

My uncle Algernon James Green was in Burma with the Chindits. I was spluttering 'Uncle Jim's home,...

Delivering the Milk.

My brother and I used to deliver the milk all round Minchinhamton and Amberley by a horse drawn cart... Any...

"I Had Muscles Like Popeye"

I was in the Women's Land Army at the beginning of the war and I went to Swanley Agriculturqal College...

Boilers and Bombs in Swindon Railways Works

I was on apprentices money but with war work and overtime I got more money than the boiler makers....

Rosemarys Evacuee story

Most of the girls were chosen first, and we waited till the end and there was one girl left by the name...

Potato picking in Gloucestershire

I attended Weston Super Mare Grammar School, and in the August school holiday in 1944 when I was 14, most...

On the Land

I was 14 when war broke out, I went to fry's chocolate factory , that was my first job.After three...

Growing up in Ross during the War

I worked two nights a week in the fire station in Ross where the Phoenix Theatre is now... I spent weekends...

Childhood Evacuation

At the outbreak of war I said goodbye to my family in London and was put on a trainand ended up at...

Market Days at Yate

In the market hall they sold vegetables, chiefly garden and allotment produce - the people were great...

Gloucestershire Fire Service during the War

I ended up joining Gloucester Aircraft Companies fire service in Novemeber 1941 as a cadet. I remeber the...

Walking through Bristol after an Air Raid

From where I lived in Yate I can remember going up onto the railway bridge and watching the explosions of a...

Southampton to Gloucester

He worked on the railways in Gloucester as a plasterer from 1940. We came to Gloucester from Southampton to...

Missing money

I was an evacuee and stayed with a family in Stroud and have one or two unpleasant memories including being...

Memories of Evacuation

I was just nine years old in June 1940, when my sister and I were evacuated to Stroud in Gloucestershire......

Recycling is Not a New Idea

My earlist recollection of minor wartime events as I was involved in was watching troops which I believed...

Gloucester Hospital

I was a nurse at the hospital at the GRI, The Gloucester Royal Infirmary in 1940, then I moved to the City...

Gloucestershire Aicraft Company - from the Canteen

I started working life at the age of 14 putting saftey pins onto cards at the Whitecroft Pin factory on the...

Church Parade in the Girls Training Corp

I was in the Girls Training Corp as a Sergeant, wearing navy skirts, white blouses and a navy forage cap....

Life on a Gloucestershire Farm

We had an air raid shelter, and Mum would grab me and take me downstairs when an air raid ciren went off....

Immigrants and Refugees in Yate

During the war there were a lot of Irish labourers in Yate, and they lived up in what is now called Kennedy...