Norfolk

Putting my Foot in it

Just prior to us setting off my aunt had taken me to see Disney's ‘Snow White’, the scene...

Surviving in the Shelters: The Baedecker Raid on Norwich 1942

I went with my brother and mother into the back yard, where our shelter was. Before we went into the...

Blitz on Norwich

Our water was cut off as the water mains were bombed and we had to go across to the allotments to get...

Wartime Memories

We lived in Stafford Street near the Dereham Road, which was heavily bombed. I remember my son Nigel and a...

Surviving the Blitz on Norwich

Mother lived in Rupert Street in Norwich, and my father was a market gardener with a piece of land where he...

Widowed in Wartime

I lived with my Mum and Dad near Aylsham in Norfolk. For some reason I thought he meant there was a bird,...

A Young Nurse in Wartime Norwich

The day War was declared, I was working at the old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and several of us girls...

Sweets in Wartime

During World War Two I lived with my parents in Wymondham, above my father's shoe shop in Damgate...

Family War Memories

Dad said that he survived the army and the Prisoner of War camp because as the oldest child in his family...

Dirty Londoners in Norfolk by Terri Gleeson

He called the police and they came round with a bucket of water in the back of the car, and put the...

Farming in Wartime

We had a lot of livestock — pigs, chickens, cattle — and we grew sugarbeet, mangolds, barley...

My War Experiences as a Child in Norfolk

My father a former regular soldier was called up and was given the rank of Sergeant Gunnery and drill...

AIR RAID ON NORWICH

The date that sticks in my mind is 28th April 1942 and the time 10.30 a.m. At that moment I was in...

Life in Browick Rd School

The Head Teacher was Miss Base at the Browick Road School... Miss Allen, the teacher, would do this for me....

Evacuated to Retford by Eddie Andrews

I went to stay with a lady called Mrs. Chambers, who was very formidable, at Moorgate Retford... Retford...

Britain's Secret Army - Chapter 2

It included poachers and gamekeepers,ghillies, stalkers, verderers from the New Forest, farmers and their...

Childhood Memories

We went to school at Didlington Hall which we shared with evacuee children... The owner of Didlington Hall...

The Start

All the children carried gasmasks, they were in cardboard boxes with a string loop to go over the shoulder,...

Fire Raid on Norwich and Faulty Brakes

It became necessary to go out on to the roof of the north trancept of the Cathedral where some incendiary...

An American Bomber Pilot in Norwich

I was with the 446th Bomb Group, 704 Squadron and we were a replacement crew and we began flying combat...

Childhood memories of war in Norfolk

We lived in Henderson Road in Norwich and had an Anderson shelter in the garden. My Dad worked on the...

A Very Rural War

I left on a Friday and on the Monday I started to work in a teashop, the Mary Elizabeth Tearoom, in the...

A Trip to Remember

My Grandad Moved from the borders of Scotland to Norfolk at the beginning of the Second World War... My...

Work in the Laundry

I lived in Silfield on the outskirts of Wymondham and worked in the laundry on the Norwich Road... There...

A Norfolk Land-Girl

I was 17 years old in 1939 and was living with my aunt, Ida Browne, in Winfarthing in Norfolk. I...

A True Shannock

I remember when a timber ship containing oranges ran aground off Sheringham, not only did everyone go...