Norfolk

A Happy Ending

I had three brothers — Arthur, who is still alive, and the twins, Ken and Sid. Dad was not strong but...

A Long, Long School Holiday in 1940

I was a pupil at Norwich School in the Cathedral Close through the war years. When the war began the school...

A Child Observes the War

At the start of the war I lived in Ipswich and I remember this plane coming over – a German one,...

A Happy Ending

I had three brothers — Arthur, who is still alive, and the twins, Ken and Sid. Dad was not strong but...

American Military Hospital

After a short spell working in Norwich I got a job working at Wymondham Railway Station in the goods...

Life in a Sanatorium, Norfolk

I was admitted to Kelling Sanatorium in North Norfolk. My mother had a long journey — Dereham to...

Romance on the Seafront

At the end of the evening I walked Molly back to her digs and then she insisted in her capacity as a...

Tasburgh Under Fire (Extract from "Hard Times and Humour: Tasburgh 1939-1970)

During the German raids the shed where we kept our cycles was hit by tracer bullets. When bombs made impact...

Bombs in Wymondham, Norfolk

I recall 2-3 incendiary bombs falling on the Baptist Church, some bombs on the Lizard and a landmine at...

Liberator Plane Crash 1944

As it passed over our heads towards Heigham Road it banked round and a wing hit one of the pinnacles on the...

Beer Rationing (extract from "Hard Times and Humour: Tasburgh 1939-1970")

.......the "Horse Shoes" public house was occupied by Charles Hales, early war work saw a change of...

J A Martin DFC - Engine loss at Feltwell

Paddy called up the Controller and reported having lost his port outer... Paddy came back on the radio and...

Stationed with Husband

In 1939 Winnie's husband was the Ayrshire Yeomanry which were recognised as the Royal Artillery......

A Tiny Detail but True

She was, she told me 'sure she was going to die'. She lay down in the hall with my brother, and...

Bomb Scare

In the early Nineteen Forties when I was 15 was working for my Father in the Family Baker's business,as...

Family Memories

I had one brother who was a regular, one who was a PoW in Japan, one in the Desert Rats, one in...

A Boy’s Memories

I was eleven years old in 1939 and I went to Wymondham Secondary Modern School. The school was opened in...

Watching the War from Wymondham

We lived about 20 minutes by bike from the US 3rd Air Division base at Hethel and I would often cycle down...

They Thought I Was Dead

We all met on station and went to out our hostel, that was the most isolated hostel in East Anglia. It was...

Safer Outside

We lived at Thorpe near Norwich, and had an Anderson shelter in our garden but my father, who was a WW1...

Part Texan Part Cherokee

He looked just like John Payne the actor and was part Cherokee. He used to say that his bit of Indian was...

Memories: Shed for a Shelter

When the war broke out I was a young girl only seven years old - I remember the German bombers following...

Boyhood Memories

I was living in Norwich, where I have lived all my life, by Bowers Avenue....

Tales of the Unexpected

My uncle was a ‘tail end Charlie’ in the Lancaster bomber - a rear gunner. My dad was a...

The Search Light

Whilst serving in the war in the 65th Search Light Regiment in Norfolk, I had a call out for an emergency....

A Short Marriage

I was being taken out for a drink at a hotel in Norwich by an officer, my husband to be joined us...