Northamptonshire

Excitements and Fear as a Young Boy in Wartime: In Northampton

Once a week at Stimpson Avenue School they had what was called the ‘Penny Pictures’, where...

Wartime Memories of Semilong

Living at 85 Semilong Road, we had an extremely long garden, with a greenhouse, and a father who loved...

The London Blitz: Somers Town

My War as an Evacuee

We were all assembled in the village hall and all the other children went off with somebody and was left...

The Day War Broke Out

You went out and played in the streets, when I was brought up in the Duke Crescent area, which was a fairly...

Wartime Memories of Semilong

Living at 85 Semilong Road, we had an extremely long garden, with a greenhouse, and a father who loved...

War Memories 1939-45 - Mrs W Wright

I remember neighbours of St Davids Road Kingsthorpe gathered by their garden gates rather subdued when the...

An Eight Year Olds Memory of being Evacuated

Another memory of mine is the time of the Dieppe raid and army trucks pulled up in front of the houses and...

Interview with an Evacuee

Interview recorded on Saturday January 11th 2002 between Jennifer Parsons and Pauline Lavinia John,...

Some Episodes of a War Time Child - Betty Mallard nee Waterfield.

Some Episodes of a War Time Child - Betty Mallard nee Waterfield. Miss Brentnall took it into her head that...

One Child's Story part 1

Dad told me that the Blackshirt Movement had started out under the guise of a social facility for young men...

Wartime Power Supply in Northamptonshire

We had two that I remember; dad reckoned that under the stairs was the safest place in the house, so the...

Colin Thompson-Things I remember

Fortunately, we went for a few days holiday to the North Devon coast.Whilst we were there the farmhouse was...

Evacuation and escape from Northampton!

She saw I was upset and after a meal and a nice cup of tea she took me to the Police Station...

Ken Billing's War

We had two that I remember; dad reckoned that under the stairs was the safest place in the house, so the...

My Life in the London and WAAF - Elsie Read

When the pilot fired the gun the camera would go off at the same time and if the target was hit it...

North London Evacuation and Life in Wartime

My Father, his sisters and elder brother were left in London. When the lady opened the door her words were...

From Peckham to Northampton - an Evacuee's Story

I then attended the local village school and eventually took the 11+ and gained a place at a grammar school...

The Northamptonshire Poacher

This was when Dad became a poacher. On the next set the wind dropped and dad said “we'll catch no...

A Long War's A'winding

Originated By Dave Drew at Kirkby Libray On Behalf Of Mr Ernie Wray On Februay 2005. Mr Ernie Wrayis a...

My Benign War

In Watford the siren sounded off daily and while we were prudent, no way did we panic, so I couldn't...

My War as a Boy - As I Remember

My dad used to get up very early in the morning cycle to his allotment about a mile away for an hour...

Pea Picking with the Duchess

Then we moved to Barnwell in Northamptonshire and worked for the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester on their...

Evacuation: Walthamstow to Kettering

I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...

The Harris family Evacuated to Northampton

There were seven of us children and my Mum who took the two youngest with her -Derek was still a baby. Mum...

My Memories of the Land Army

In March 1943 as the war dragged on and wanting to do something for the war effort I cycled from West...