Northamptonshire

Wartime in Northampton

He would not let me stay in London because of the bombs – so he took me to Brighton... Then we came...

Fire at Weedon

They were in a camoflaged Nissan hut next to a canal. The camoflage net stretched over the adjoining...

Memories of a Rothersthorpe farmer.

Sid North joined the Northampton Home Guard when it was set up in 1940. They had their own lorry and would...

Bombing of Rushden

Reg Wheeler was in Geoff Morgan's shop in Church Street when a bomb embedded itself at the foot of the...

Doodlebugs in Northampton

I was evacuted to my Aunt in Northampton when just six years old... I tried to tell my aunt it was a...

D-Day: With the ATS in Northampton

I was in the ATS for four and half years; I went to Dorset, Colchester and Northampton....