Manchester

Americans in Manchester

I grew up in Manchester during the war, and have recollections of being carried at night and seeing the...

Derrick's War

I was evacuated to Blackpool at the start of the war and stayed at a Boarding House and went to school in...

My Dad's War

He was taken to Valletta hospital, and eventually they managed to get a plane home for all the injured...

Oldham Memories of War

We lived near an ammunition factory and the Germans were trying to find this factory... There were big guns...

Elizabeth and Albert Findlow's Story

The story was typed and entered on to the site by a CSV volunteer with kind permission of Elizabeth and...

Evacuation

We also got trainee teachers who had been in the army, and they were not good as teachers... When I left...

Working in Munitions

I worked at Farrantis on ammunitions, I was on a driller in metal, we made the things that you bombed with....

Bombing of Salford

At the beginning of the war I and my brothers were evacuated to knott end near fleetwood.we then moved to...

Manchester Blitz

I lived in Old Trafford, Manchester, and during one particular bad blitz in our area, a friend of my...

Luftwaffe Bombing of Manchester Region before Christmas 1940, on Two Consecutive Nights

Luftwaffe Bombing of Manchester Region before Christmas 1940, on Two Consecutive Nights. Every year we...

I Came with the German Bombers

It was decided to move all the mothers with their newborn babies to the safety of an air-raid shelter, but...

Working Sisters: In the Medical Services and the ATS

My younger sister Pauline volunteered for nursing duites in the war. My elder sister joined the ATS and was...

When My Dad Came Home

I was born 1/9/38The war started3/9/39.So i was only a baby when my dad joined up.He didnt need to.Because...

Olive Wilshaw's Childhood Memories off being evacuated

Olive and her brother were evacuated from from Manchester to Chinley in Derbyshire three days before the...

Engineer's Memories

I worked at ford Airo factory at Davyhulme where the Trafford Centre is now. I was engineering in Coventry...

Fun in the Employment Exchange

Her huband was in the military police and was taken prisoner at Dunkirk, he spent 5 years as a prisoner of...

Recollections of Stockport

1942 approx Barbara has memories of living near a large mansion house in Stockport Cheshire. She remembers...

The Americans

At Radnor Grove Farm, where our friends lived and with whom we spend much of the school holidays, there was...

Manchester Blitz

My Mother Annie Etchells heared the sirens warning of an air raid she put my sister Pauline in her pram and...

Christmas was Never the Same Again

I was 7 or 8 years old, on Christmas day when in Oldham we had the first flying bomb dropped in Abbeyhills...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Denton by Gordon Taylor

We were told of the bomb that fell close to the Club House of Denton Golf Club....

Gas Masks

My baby sister was issued with a Mickey Mouse gas mask which, because she was a big baby with a big head,...

Uniforms with a Difference

I worked at the Burtons Factory on the East Lancs Road in Manchester and I lived in Swinton. Enemy planes...

I Was a Driver for the Fire Service by Brenda Lees (nee Griffin)

I Was a Driver for the Fire Service by Brenda Lees. I was a driver for the Fire service at Moss Side...

Enlisting

I attempted to join up in l943 aged l7, but, although I was working at a wine merchants at the time, my...

Drawing Flowers on a Bomb

Mum got the ARP, who got the bomb squad... The bomb squad had just been at the railway station which had...