North Yorkshire

Bill Sanderson's Wartime Experiences -Part 1 - Joining Up

Place of Birth: Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire Father: William Brown Sanderson Mother: Elizabeth...

Wartime Memories

We had an Air raid Shelter in our Garth, which Dad and my brothers, both a lot older than me, dug out...

Recollections of World War II

Grosmont is positioned close to the historic old fishing port of Whitby and can be found by following the...

Joan Quibell’s Diary — Part Four - 1942 (January - May)

I found a good friend in Joan Cattell and I loved my spare time wandering around York. Enemy hammers gave...

WAAF

I would like you to imagine a young country girl 20 years of age standing on the platform of her local...

John Russell, OWL (Operator, Wireless and Line)

This insignia can be seen on the arm of a soldier in one of the most widely published photographs of D-Day,...

A Rural Child Touched by War: Part Two (1943 - 1945)

My father replied to an advertisement for an experienced horseman for a farm at Aldbrough St John, a small...

A Rural Child Touched by War: Part One (1939 - 1942)

They were not local people, my grandfather had been blinded in the First World War and they had eventually...

Conscript

I think it was methane, stove to do your cooking, that was in the small pack, 2 36 grenade a 63 and...

Joan Taylor -Reflections

We lived where Westtown started in a yard, bordered at the top by a road called Webster Hill and at the...

Sandsend at War

Although we were never actually bombed, some bombs were dropped in Whitby and jettisoned in the woods...

Why Y Signals -- I found out!

Came the day in May 1945, we had been on the midnight to 7am shift, and the sets had been very quiet,...

Chapter 10 - Back Home - Peacetime Soldering and Civvy Street (Apr 1945 - Feb 1946)

She later married one of my workshop officers Peter Dodd a released POW from Germany... The ATS officers...

Life in a Yorkshire Village in 1944

Grandma Clegg had a horsehair sofa under her window but Grandma Wood had two round backed chairs where you...

The Second Time Round

Once an escaping enemy bomber jettisoned his bombs after being chased by RAF fighters; they landed in the...

Memories of a Young Child During and After the War

Once I reached home, which happened to by a Monday, my Mum and Granny stripped me off and actually put me...

Evacuation to Embsay: Some Cockneys in Yorkshire

Charlotte was housed at No. 39 Main St. Embsay, a small village just a mile away from Skipton. As the...

Daddy's Coming Home!

Ordered in the sense that if you needed anything it was a simple "ask Mum". Suddenly it was "I...

Leaving Home

When we eventually arrived at Harrogate station we were taken thought the town, down Pier Hill to the Crown...

Bombed Out! Caught in a Raid, Scarborough

At about 2.00am we reached No 4 Oxford Street, Grandma and Grandpa Nellis's home... When Grandpa Nellis...

Off We Went: Evacuation from Sussex to Yorkshire

Eventually, my friend Rosemary and I and a few others who remained were driven round the village to the...

The Baedeker Raid on York

Mum had lived in the country as a girl and brought lots of country ways with her to York... There were four...

Evacuee 1941

Later in 1941 the Air-Raids on Hull intensified severely and the authorities decided to evacuate as many...

Leading up to the Second World War

The following day I travelled from Edinbugh to Arbroath to do my eight weeks initial training, after which,...

Wartime Memories of a Girl in York

Another sad time for me towards the end of the war was when a dear friend, a Canadian pilot based at...

A Country Treat

Aunty Louise was Mum's, Mothers sister and Uncle Herbert was the Head Gardener at the Hall... They...