Shropshire

A Child's Memory

My Father was in the Royal Engineers and served in North Africa, Egypt and Palestine... My second clear...

Work Experience 1941-1944

Introduced to workmates then to Donnington M.O.D. Sent to work with a Cable Jointer, taking tools with us...

Pig salting in Shropshire.

I helped my uncle to salt the pig. We rubbed it with blocks of salt, with saltpetre on the bone joints,...

The Full Circle

In the morning the German was asking where my dad was and when he was told he wept... God Bless you Dad...

The Cliffodeons of Kidderminster

It was a happy time, quite a family affair, my uncle Perce worked along side me on the assembly line, my...

Wartime Memories, Donnington

In 1938 at the Munich crisis.There were only 4 anti-aircraft guns in the Woolwich arsenal to defend the...

Memories of the Second World War

John went to France for D Day landings. My two daughters went to Normandy to celebrate the 2nd Battalion,...

The Day a Bomb Dropped on Our Neighbour

When I was about four, a bomb was dropped on the bungalow next door... The American soldiers billetted at...

Marilyn Stobbe - The Day My Life Began

When I was 2 and a half years old and my sister six months my mother took us to live in Nescliffe...

Listening in Secret

It was at this time that Mary met her husband Geoff, because the old rectory which was converted into a...

Shropshire and Wales Memories

I was 10 years old and attending St Gerrards school, in Liverpool, but in 1939 found myself and sisters...

Memories of the Second World War

At the outbreak of the Second World War I lived at 8 Cowper Close, Bexley Heath, Kent with Mum, Dad and...

"EVACUEES COME TO ASTLEY ABBOTTS"

When evacuees came to Astley Abbotts our school population went from 50 to 150....

"MY DAUGHTER'S MESSAGE FROM KING GEORGE VI"

After the War in 1946 my daughter Dorothy received a message from King George V1, she was a pupil at Acton...

US Soldiers at Ludlow Racecourse

There were over 2000 US soldiers at Ludlow racecourse and they used to take the local children up in the...

Naughty Girls in Kidderminster

Sutton Road ran parallel to Franchise Street and convoys of British troops and equipment went down there......

Memories of Wolverley

We used to live at Solcum Cottage, not far from us was the Smith family at Solcum Farm and they had a...

An Attempt to Join the Parachute Regiment

My friend Sid Brown came up to me one day and said 'What about joining the parachute regiment Mesh? I...

Air raid over Shrewsbury

My Aunt , who lived in Liverpool, was staying with us at the time, asked when would the guns start firing...

Bombs over Kidderminster

Bombers dropped parachute mines aiming for Hoobrook Railway but fortunately missed... He saw the bomb doors...

The Entertainers

The audience was packed - some of us read poetry, some of us sang Vera Lynn songs and our last performance...

Spitfires

My Mum was in the war working at the Spitfire factory in Shrewsbury... Quite a few of the factory workers...

A Childs War

I remember as a young boy, listening to German bombers following the river severn on their way to bomb...

My First Day at School

The one thing that I can recall quite vividly is being issued with a gas mask. It came in a cream coloured...