Somerset

Yeovil Bombing

The farm lay close to Yeovilton airbase and under the flight path for Bristol and they were used to enemy...

A Week’s Holiday that became Six Weeks

During one of the bombing raids, the station at Truro had been demolished... By then Truro station had been...

Evacuated to Somerset

They took in an evacuee from Essex, his name was Roy Mansfield, Roy had a brother that was taken in by a...

My Father's War

Between arriving back in England on 30 May 1940 and leaving again for Cyprus and Egypt on 20 May 1941, my...

Len & Margaret

Margaret brought up in Yeovil 11 years of age when war ended when Margaret was 8 left school one day and...

A Wartime Romance

It was here that she met my dad Victor Leslie Brown, known as Les, he was billeted at the assembly rooms at...

Tedious Work

While I was at work one day, my mother's house was bombed, no warning had been given but this bomb...

Forming the Home Guard: In Ilchester, Somerset

Three of us, Jack Masters, Dennis Coombe and I, were detailed to be on look out on the top of Ilchester...

Sent to Somerset

My brother and I attended the local school and on the way home we would steal coal from the local slag...

Wartime in Compton Dundon, Somerset

I remember the day all the children attending the Infant School at Compton Dundon had a day off because 2...

Exploding Cheese

I lived in Bridgwater during the war - my dad had moved there from Coventry when British Cellophane started...

WW II death in the City of Wells.

This person was a Mr Harry Patis aged 63 and he lived in an old caravan, in what was considered a very...

Bombing of Yeovil

One evening, I must have been about 4 years old, I went to a fish and chip shop when we heard a...

Keeping Spirits Up

Joyce once worked making lockers for flying crew and tables for the mess.This all took place in Yatten...

My Fathers Accident

In 1944 our mother received a 6 page telegram, informing her to go to the local police station, where she...

Saved from the Bombing

I was evacuated in September 1939 to Wellington from Mile end Road in the East End of London... We were to...

War Memories in England

England was full of ammunition dumps before D-day and I remember giving bullets to the poor gentlemen who...

My First Banana.

His name was Able Seaman Frederick Arthur Garrett and he served on H.M.S. Blackwood... He died Aged 21 on...

Our Fathers' Dream

However the first plane to land was a German Heinkel 111 which had lost its way after raiding a place in...

Broadcasting the war

When television started in 1936, most of the staff were recruited from within the BBC and Henry became one...

Evacuation September 1939:London to Somerset

My brother and I were out buying sweets when the first air raid siren sounded, A few weeks later we were...

Serving in Panto with Tony Hancock

I was stationed at Weston-Super-Mare with the WRENS and remember a notice was put up one night by an airman...

The Day Dad Went Away.

My dad was called Henry and he had recieved a telegram telling him that he would be called up... We all sat...

A Near Escape

Raiders often off-loaded bombs on return from raids elsewhere from a great height in the hope of hitting...

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell. My mum has always told me that I should never moan about my...

Bath Blitz 1942

26th April 1942 at approx 2330hrs my mother sue was walking home alongside the river Avon in ferry lane...