I was eight years old and living just off Penistone Road in Sheffield... We walked all the way into the...
During the war I was working as a buffer girl in the cutlery industry. I worked for a small company owned...
I was a bricklayer by trade and I've worked at one or two pit, Barnsley Main, Barrow and Monk Bretton....
He was stationed at Dover with the army but got called back. I was born in Summer Lane, Royston and still...
During the Sheffield Blitz, our neighbours did not go into the air raid shelter in their yard, but instead...
My address during the Blitz was in Southend Place on the Wybourn Estate, commonly known as the aeroplane....
I remember the blackout, I lived at Worsbrough Dale with my mum and dad and brother and sister....
I was 20 years old when I joined, we were up at the top of Scotland, a place called Ulskar. I was...
I worked at the Yorkshire Traction... He got a job at the Yorkshire Traction in the garage....
He joined the Navy on HMS Keppel. The shop I worked in was Melias on Midland Road in Royston, I was...
Mother liked listening to Vera Lynn on the wireless....
During the Sheffield Blitz, in 1941, I lived on Baker Street in Attercliffe, Sheffield....
We lived in Sheffield. I remember seeing them bombing Sheffield, it was very loud....
During the early part of the war, Sheffield area held a competition to collect Saving Certificates to help...
As I was 4 years old, I remember standing on the kitchen table, singing all the war songs, a sea of...
We were lucky because we were in Hull during the Sheffield Blitz, then back in Sheffield when Hull was...
Mr. Willoughby worked at Goldthorpe Colliery during World War Two, and the picture shows one of his...
The story and other photos can be found at: A8657021 A8680845. See also: A8792076....
Memorabilia of the penfriendship. The story and other photos can be found at: A8657021 A8680971....
E. Hoyland and has been added to the site with the author's permission....
E. Hoyland and has been added to the site with the author's permission....
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