Nottinghamshire

Working at BHS during the War: In Nottingham

I was born in 1928 in Ironville and lived with my parents Walter and Doris Allard and my brothers Jack,...

Memories of the Nottingham Blitz

We found out afterwards that an incendiary bomb had crashed through the scullery roof, bounced off the...

My WW2

At home my friends Dad made the light go out when you open the front door, this was because of the black...

Christmas Sharing

Christmas was a very special time and my Mother saved rations and coupons for Christmas Cake and a Pudding...

Evacuees in Our Home

She told Mum that her son Ernest was very unhappy in his evacuee home on Rosemary Street. My Mum made...

From Southend to a Nottinghamshire Pit Village

Mansfield Woodhouse was a village on the Nottinghamshire coalfield and the father of the family she lived...

Nottinghams Glider Factory

The ministry of labour then directed her to a large furniture factory in Netherfield... Iris tried...

Memories of Ironville

I remember when bombs were dropped on King William Street in Ironville, the whole sky was lit up. The film...

Divine Intervention?

He earned a scholarship to the High School and also to the Nottingham College of Art which was his first...

My Memoirs of Life in England as WW2 Started by John Fone

A letter was received from a sapper applying to become an Officer which had to include two references, I...

With Fingers crossed

I had been posted to a R.A.F, station work-shops that was host to a Polish Fighter training school; however...

A Day Out in Wartime

Petrol was rationed so Mum and Dad saved coupons so that we could take a picnic into nearby countryside on...

My Father on the Home Front

1942 There were planes flying over Warsop to bomb Sheffield... 1943 The first pick a back bomb to land in...

A Land Girl's Lot

When milking was over, we ate a hearty breakfast of porridge, bacon and eggs prepared by the farmer's...

I Drove Ambulances

Two incidents I remember are when they bombed Boots on London Road in Nottingham and hundreds of rats came...

Berlin (1)

On Saturday 16th of Jan 1943 however we were called to the opps briefing room,were I was busy following the...

Evacuation 1940: Southend to Nottinghamshire

On June 2nd 1940 I was evacuated from Southend-on-Sea to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.I was 12 years old...

My War: In the Catering Corps

Following this I was posted to Newcastle and then moved on to Nottingham where the Army Pay corps had taken...

Nursing in the NE

From Chilwell, I went Melton Mowbray - who should I meet there but Peggy Brown, a friend from Backworth,...

West Bridgford War Time

In Nottingham we had a blitz and a bomb was dropped a couple of hundred yards from where we lived – I...

Keeping the Home Fire Burning

Our driver spotting this very large 'nob' of coal lying at the trackside decided he had a better...

GI and Bevin Boy Experiences

Again, my friend and I were dated by Paddy and Liam... My friend and Liam went one way to Queen Street and...

Happy Christmas Doctor

As Christmas was very near I tried to carry on until after the festivities... An older member of staff had...

Eruption and Explosion

My mother, Margaret Brown, worked in an ammunition factory in Newark on Trent... One night a damaged RAF...

Evacuation

I was an evacuee twice at that time once to Catworth in Huntingdonshire then to Norton St Philip...

MUNITIONS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

We lived next door to the Chilwell ammunition depot so were always expecting raids... The glow of the fires...