Somerset

Who Fired the Rifle and Hit Jesse Salvidge's Guttering?

One night when there were a lot of aeroplanes going over on their way to bomb Bristol, Mr Newman, a retired...

My Memories of the War: As a Child in Somerset

I remember going with mum and dad down Axbridge moor to look at bomb crater it was great big deep hole with...

My Memories of the Second World War: In Weston-Super-Mare

My cousin has a photograph of him holding her eldest brother as a baby with tufts of hair growing out of...

Thoughts on WW2

Thus began the first part of my war experience,smetimes boring,sometimes exciting and other times very...

From the frying pan to the fire.

The day we travelled to Oakhill, Somerset on evacuation we left behind us the bombing in Broad street...

Stories from Somerset

Part of Mr. Morley's job in the RAF was to guide the aircraft into Gatwick airportwhen night flying......

My War: Evacuated from Surrey to Somerset

My sister Pat and I played happily in the garden with our friends whilst our parents wondered exactly what...

My Teenage Years - Dorothy Holdbrook (nee Driscoll)

A group of us were evacuated to Dulverton in Somerset, escorted by a wonderful teacher, Mr Beaumont and his...

The Agonising Wait on the Home Front

My husband was stationed at Yeovil, it was his fifth year in the RAF. I caught the early train, the...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 13 (Chapter 13)

A ‘Quad’, by the way was the name given to the vehicles designed to tow 25pounders though why...

The Horrors of Evacuation

I'd never been given such exotic food and the lifestyle was so different from my one in London. By the...

Early Wartime Memories

It was then that our Headteacher learned that our destination was to be Taunton in Somerset, while the...

A Somerset Boy Remembers an American Soldier

At the time Philip Sealey spent a great deal of time with his uncle and aunt, Cissie and Harry Woollan, in...

The Day the Bomb Fell on Clarence Place, Bath.

My father was asleep after his munitions night shift, not knowing a bomb was right outside his window; we...

I was an Evacuee

A tall woman came to collect four of us, she was the Doctor's daughter, she delivered two children to a...

Memories at Age 4 and a Half

So at that period in 1941, I was working normal hours plus evening overtime and weekends also attending the...

A view of the War in the country

Playing in the garden with wireless playing at full volume, I remember the immortal words to the effect...

The Home Coming Crash: Hampden Crash near Bridgewater

I can remember one awful night when I was about 18 years old (1941) when i was living with my parents the...

The Four and A Half Year Holiday by Vera Jensen

My eldest brother joined the navy, sailing round the world on a destroyer - he was only 16 and put his age...

Some Recollections of WW2 Evacuated to Minehead

In great excitement, I left my treasured dinky cars parked inside makeshift garages made in the moist sand...

Life In Rugby During WW2

My Grandma's brother, Jim was captured during World War 2 and held as a Japanese prisoner of war on the...

A Story with a Happy Ending.

After A.C.R.C initiation at Weston-Super-Mare, a wireless course at Yatesbury, gunnery school at Manby, a...

Wartime in the Wrens: In Plymouth and Yeovilton

One week later we reported to HMS Raleigh at Torpoint, Plymouth, which was a training base for the Royal...

A Conscientious Objector's Wartime Story

The Man Who Was "Called Up and Demobbed" Three Times!

I lived with my parents in Birmingham and in March 1938, attracted by the two weeks’ paid annual...

West-Country Wartime Childhood: Morphine, Salvaging and Chilblains

Rations were sparse, but Mum kept hens, known as 'the old ladies', so there were occasional eggs....