Norfolk

The Night of the Blitz: Bombing of Norwich

There was a bomb at the bottom of Grapes Hill then another in Raglan Street near to the Lothian Public...

Black Bloomers and Blackout Curtains

I started my working life at Friars Croft laundry in Wymondham and later I went to work for the Wymondham...

An Infant Evacuee in Thetford, Norfolk, and Life in Darlington

I didn't like Darlington, nor I think did my mother because we returned to Thetford, probably to be...

Memories of Two Sisters and a Husband

We did not possess many toys, but we had an Aunt Edie, who was a Salvation Army officer in Guernsey... When...

The Lizard in Wartime

I lived at number 9 on the Lizard in Wymondham with my stepfather Robert Poll and my younger stepbrother...

Escape from Domestic Service

There was all firemen's pipes across the road and one part of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital had all...

South Norfolk Air Raids

My home was at Pulham St. Mary which had been an airship base and still had one of the old airships hangers...

Norwich Ablaze

Four wards, the upper floors of the Leicester nurses home, the main theatre and linen room above it and the...

Macaronis and Doodlebugs

Fleeting acquaintances with the Luftwaffe in the Vale of Belvoir; during a "holiday" to Glasgow,...

The Eccentric Encounters of a Four Year Old Evacuee: From Great Yarmouth to Stanton on the Wold

The Eccentric Encounters of a Four Year Old Evacuee: From Great Yarmouth to Stanton on the Wold. We were...

My Blitz Experience

At this point my husband thought I should go home to Norwich as it would be safer and what happened but...

Childhood in Wartime

This lady was to become my Auntie Joyce after marrying Uncle Sam a year later. My Uncle had met her in...

The W.A.A.F. Driver and the Pre-Select Gears

I, Elizabeth Ann Cook, was born in 1920, in a little village called Paulers Pury, which is in...

Four years in Blitz - evacuated at 13

I came from an environment where, meat, sugar, bread, butter, milk, was all very strictly rationed, and...

From Norwich to Hamburg with the Royal Artillery

The Germans had a habit of tying wire across the road at head height to get us dispatch riders. We were the...

Three Memories of Buses in the War Years

Every morning Jack, our conductor, counted the people as they got off at Surrey Street bus station; that...

One of the Lucky Ones - Part 4

It was the Sir John Leman Grammar School and was in the town of Beccles in Suffolk. But in 1943 with the...

In the Y Service

I had done quite well at German at school, and had also been to stay in Germany with a family, just as...

VE -day Letter from Lt William R Murchie:

It was a day or two after V-E day, but the crowds were like moths around the lights—great masses of...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Norwich

I used to walk down Ber Street in Norwich to see my Grandparents and there were huge hose pipes strewn...

My War Years: Norwich

Life became much worse for us with the rationing of food,and clothes.Lack of sleep was also taking its...

A Bit on the Side

This was the armoury which was built as a facility for the local Home Guard of which my uncle was C.O. It...

Where Were You on the Day War Broke Out? Childhood Memories of Cromer in Norfolk

We arrived in the early afternoon, along with other guests, and the hotel owners had been serving afternoon...

Memories of a Young Girl in a Reserved Occupation

My name is Daphne Sainsbury, I was born in Norwich and my maiden name was Daphne Quantrill. My Sister and I...

Away From Home

I had no chocolate, so I offered her an orange, & she said Yes please , & seemed delighted —...

War Comes to Welney

German planes tried to bomb the Welney Suspension Bridge... We were instructed that after it was dark we...