Sheffield and South Yorkshire

The Hard-hearted Landlady

I had managed to find lodgings for my new young wife and myself in Hatfield Woodhouse near to the RAF...

Evacuee Memories

In 1941 I left Wilsden in London as an evacuee to go into Wales... Two years later my Mum arrived in Wales...

A Sheffield Child in the War

My mother has flasks of tea made up ready in case the sirens went....

Wartime School Days

It was assumed, quite correctly, that pupils’ mothers would undertake the task of converting thick,...

Wakefield's War

Action eventually came to Wakefield when a stick of bombs fell in the Thornes Park area... Was it the same...

Schoolboy Memories

We used to get free school meals because Dad was in the army. When bombing in Sheffield started we went in...

In The War

By Joyce Horne - Joyce Cooper as I was. I lived very near Halifax, in a village called Rishworth....

A Police Auxiliary Messenger.

My father was a Police Auxiliary at Shenfield, Essex. I became a Police Auxiliary Messenger in 1942, at the...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-48 Part 8

It was when Dandy and I were walking to work along the dark, lonely ventilation roadway that I made some...

Sheffield blitz

I was 11 years old & Geoff was 14 we were in the heeley picture house on dec.13 when a notice appeared...

Being Allowed to Wear Trousers!

Watching bombs falling in Sheffield and Molatov Cocktails falling over the colliery to light the area for...

Childhood Memories (J.Errington)

Today's children are told not to talk to strangers but in those days children were told not to touch...

Oranges and Apples

We used to go to Sheffield, Gleadless, to see my Aunt Kathleen....

Frosty's Tale from Sheffield

Told to Bruce Funnell by Brian Frost of Sheffield. One weekend around 1944/45 all the family went to visit...

Anne Johnson "The Knitters"

The teacher, being a clever knitter, would knit the Captain's polo jumper, then the socks. We did love...

Queues for Most Things

I got a house in Barnsley and worked at Beatson and Clarkes. I had to go down passed the Barnsley Main Pit...

Visit to the Pictures that got us into Big Trouble

My brother Bob and I, only about 12 and 14 years of age at the time, went to see the later Abbot...

Table Manners

But one day it was dismantled, taken away and replaced by a wooden table that had spent the war in our...

Where has the gate gone?

One day there was no garden gate to stand on, because it was an “Iron” gate, it had been...

They got Shot at by a Plane

They were walking down Harvey Clough Road at Norton Leighs when they got shot at by a plane. A bomb dropped...

My mum`s memories

The first memory my mum told me about was, one day she was coming home from school on a Sammy Ledguard`s...

He was Blown off his Bike

When the bombs dropped he was blown off his bike and down the embankment. He went through some wooden...

My War Time Experience: A Teacher in Sheffield

On the night of Friday 13th December 1940, after a prolonged air raid, I was evacuated to a house in...

Harry Darby, Too Young to Serve

Later in life Harry worked in the maintenance stores at RAF Norton and in the control room at the Sheffield...

Child at war

2 miles away was a battery of AckAck guns which would fire at the planes going over only once did the...

Flatten Tin Cans for Salvage

My mother was employed at the Dodworth Pit to clean the offices. When we heard the plane we started to run,...