Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Wives Club

We had soda scones, and for a treat toffees made with liquid parrafin and mint essence - what luxury!...

Sheffield Blitz

The German's decided to bomb this area as the steelworks produced weapons that were used during the...

One or two memories

I remember a German fighter plane landing at Broomhill. I worked in the coal mines and so did my three...

Ayton Memories 2

During the war I lived in Edenthorpe near Doncaster and from 1940 — 45 I attended Thorne Grammar...

Village Life

I was born in Maltby, Yorkshire and started school when I was 5 years old... We were lucky as living in a...

Don't let Skippy Out!

"Don't let Skippy Out! As an industrial sewing machinist I was conscripted to war work at Bristol...

Stocking Seams

I remember my Aunts standing on the buffets beside the fireplace after they had put colouring on their legs...

Farewell at Doncaster

One day at Doncaster I was seeing my dad off at Doncaster Station as he was leaving to fight. Mrs Margaret...

Wounded Soldiers

My Mother used to bake apple pies and cakes and each week we would take them to the nearest hospital for...

Sheffield Blitz Musgrave Crescent 3

Sheffield Blitz Musgrave Crescent 3...

Sheffield Blitz Musgrave Cres 2

Sheffield Blitz Musgrave Cres 2...

Bananas

In 1944, as a 7year old at our local infants' school I was sent to colledt the registers from the other...

Sheffield Bombed

This is to do with the Second World War. Recollections from my mother Glady Barker about being in a theatre...

A. E. Hoyland’s War Photographs No. 07

E. Hoyland and has been added to the site with the author's permission....

Evacuees to Edwinstowe: 1939

Evacuees to Edwinstowe: 1939...

Soldiers Die in Train Disaster

Ambulances were sent from Sheffield, Beighton Civil Defence workers rushed to the scene to give first aid...

Longstone Local History Group - Norman Hassall’s Story

A7887487 Roy Finney's Story: A7887784 Frank, A and S Hurst: A7888396 Flames of Sheffield: A7888657...

Longstone Local History Group - Edna Beresford's war memories

She learnt to drive and delivered meat with Mr Dawson to the surrounding villages of Eyam, Calver, Litton,...

Working at Beighton Colliery

One night we were walking home to Beighton past the coke ovens when a gas flame from the ovens shot into...

Troop Train Accident - Beighton Sheffield

Phyllis Simms and I were on roster, when an alert call came in: “Proceed to Beighton. Phyllis and I...

The Sheffield Blitz

I was working up St. Mary's Road, Sheffield at Smith & Seymour making Knife, Fork and Spoon sets...

Edna - the overhead crane driver

After about a year the crane drivers at the works were called up and I was asked if I would like to...

Our holiday was a day out a Roundhay Park!

Holidays during the war were a day out at Roundhay Park in Leeds. We took the train from Cudworth Station...

Home Guard At Oughtibridge

Dad used to tell of rolling steel at Bedfords thoughout the night, and driving his motor bike over rubble...

Still had a brilliant Christmas

My husband worked for Pulverite, they powdered coal for the Sheffield Steel Works. We would sometimes take...

Chopping Sticks

All we could see was the whole city ablaze, but my house wasn't bombed. One member of our family was...