Stories categorised in 'Manchester'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
I have memories of getting home from a visit to the cinema during the blackout of 1939-40, during a real...
The story of our evacuation I was the oldest of three children born in Manchester to Arthur Pannell, a...
Being a chip-shop, my father had outbuildings where he stored tubs of potatoes, in water, ready for...
They showed resentment that my eldest brother, who was a regular serviceman, was serving in Palestine,...
I lived in Pickering Street, Hulme, Manchester with my mum, dad, brother and sister. Because of the...
I was promptly sent packing, and when I got back to Fairey's I was given another rollicking by the...
On leaving Manchester I applied to the RAF and had an interview at the Air Ministry in London. I was taken...
Off to Uncle Bills in Altrincham, on the bus, Auntie Maggie and me, it was a cold bright day, so it should...
We had a girl from Scarborough living with us who worked in the aircraft factory in Trafford Park alongside...
The day I started I had to catch a train to Manchester so had ten minutes walk to the train at 6.30am,...
My Dad was in hospital in the Manchester Royal Infirmary; my mother and younger sister had been evacuated...
From February 1942 to 1945 I was a student nurse in training at the Withington Hospital, Manchester. In...
We were fitting winches on an Albermal aircraft used for towing Hotspur gliders training paratroopers when...
My mum found the piece of paper my dad had given her with his address on....
Nicky Rutter, my mother, was a paedriatic nurse in Manchester at the outbreak of war. Eventually, patience...
I lived in Northenden Manchester the aeroplanes that came over always made for Trafford Park and Hulme and...
FamilyStoryTextSiteUserHerbert GrindrodManchesterArmyroyal army service corpMissing in Action in the RASC -...
The Manchester blitz is remembered as the main raids came over Christmas, and whilst we were lucky not to...
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