Northamptonshire

Taking in Evacuees: A Personal Story by Mrs Florence Eliza Clipsom, aged 89 years

Taking in Evacuees: A Personal Story by Mrs Florence Eliza Clipsom, aged 89 years. My next evacuee was a...

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...

A Teenager in Northampton

I was born in Northampton in 1928 and had just passed my ‘scholarship’ in September 1939, so...

My Memories during Wartime: Northamptonshire

We stayed with an Aunt and Uncle in Rothwell for about a month because everybody thought that London would...

Evacuation: From Welling to Tansor

After a year at our first billet we split up, Pat went to a family in the village, Joyce went to the...

War Memories - Jim Price

On one occasion after successfully dancing with a young lady, the door opened and a load of servicemen came...

The Harris Family:Evacuated to Northampton

There were seven of us children and Mum; Derek was still a baby We took the train to Northampton... Joan...

The Day My Father Met Clark Gable

It was in fact Clark Gable, the world-famous Hollywood Actor.It transpired that he was "doing his...

D-Day - Cookie

From 1938 and during WW2 my mother wrote to a young Coldstream Guard, Jim Gregory, who was posted to...

NORTON Part 2

Some of the older villagers passed away, whenever I went to Norton Mrs Robinson would tell me the latest...

GPO telephonist 1944 - 1945

The three of us went for a meal in town and then joined in the festivities on the Market Square When I...

Kitty's War

My husband, Billy, was a musician with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but in 1940, he was "released"...

An Evacuee's Experience

At Christmas, I was able to go home to London to my Gran's for two or three days... I was an evacuee...

Memories of Kettering during the war

Mrs Winifred Pepper talking to a UCN Community Volunteer in Kettering, Northamptonshire. I remember pushing...

Wartime Memories in Long Buckby

My next vivid memory must date to the autumn after VE-Day when my Aunt Grace, my father's youngest...

Village Life: Northamptonshire

A searchlight battery was brought to Hackleton Hill Farm, and some of the soldiers had dates with the...

Schoolboy in Rushden

I remember lying in bed in Rushden hearing the bombers going over to Coventry and we heard them coming back...

National Fire Service 1940-1943

Lord Furness had vacated his house, Keythorpe in Tugby, and lent it to the NFS for the duration of the war....

Dunkirk from the eyes of a 10 year girl

He went to St. Andrews Hospital, Northampton, and later underwent a Leucotomy Operation there to try and...

My War Experience in North Northumberland

My mother had a baby girl early in 1940, and shortly after this event, we had to go to a big house...

Early Days of Radar Manufacture in Northampton

In 1939, just before the war started, the factory was moved to a new site in Bembridge Drive, Kingsthorpe,...

Evacuation September 1939

The girls I was with had fled Germany before the war, Anita Rosenburn and Elisa Muller. In the evenings,...

Early Days in Radar Manufacturing in Northampton

In 1939, just before the war started, the factory was moved to a new site in Bembridge Drive, Kingsthorpe,...

Last Ice-Cream in Portsmouth.

I remember the bombers going over, and Coventry being bombed. My father was in the army, stationed in...

War life for a young lady - Gladys Mills

I was born on 30th July 1924 and was 16 when war started, and living in Glanymor Terrace, Northampton. I...

Evacuation with a Lord

After that period we all cam back to London for a while but later on we returned and were split up within...