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The Overseas Volunteers at Birley East Collieryicon for Story with photo

The son of a railway worker, Kazik had been just 15 years of age when the Germans crossed the border, 26...

Evacuation from Leeds Chapters 8, 9 & 10

Derek loved coming to his Aunt Lil's, I expect we three Leeds evacuees were exciting, strange and...

Bevin Boys at The Government Training Centre at Birley East Collieryicon for Story with photo

Occasionally the Bevin Boys fielded a representative football team, playing matches against local pits, and...

Evacuated to Radcliffe

The Army had placed anti aircraft guns on the hills of course bombers came over Sheffield even on their way...

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Wartime memories 1940 - 1946icon for Story with photo

Typical examples of my misbehaviour are:- eating the fruit from the travelling Green Grocers display...

Memories of Waricon for Story with photo

In Totley my brother Paddy and I used to wander around quite a bit. We were told not to accept sweets from...

Prisoner of War

It was the summer of 1938 and all the talk those days was would Germany try to grab extra land to help...

Early Signs and First Departure

Back home again in West Hull, where I lived with my mother and grandfather, they were building ugly...

Life in Old Bramhope in Wartime - Part 2

1 remember in particular Giinter Matem, who had a beautiful singing voice, and was much in demand for solos...

Memories of a Ten Year Old Girl, 1939 to 1950

We had an Andersons shelter in our yard, half of which was below ground, the smell of damp was awful, the...

Acts of Wartime Kindness

When all lines seemed to pass through Doncaster Station, as a laden train pulled in, be it day or night,...

WW 2.Memories of these times.

He had served in WW 1.as a military policeman.He had to sleep in the cellar of" The...

A Child's Point of View

I had spread my toys out on the large table in the middle of the living room, army trucks and tanks on...

Day of Heartache

With our labels on our lapels and a small suitcase each we arrived at Doncaster - a horribly dark miserable...

Moving Around

We drove there in the summer of 1940, first to Hassop Hall where we left my 13 year old brother, and then...

Teenager In War Time.

When I arrived for my first day at work in 1943 the contrast between Aston Hall and the dingy office...

A Night Out - During the Blitz

On the evening of December 12, my mother, Antionetta, and her sister Rosina, were getting ready for an...

Parachute Patrol

With down turned toes reminiscent of a ballerina; his short legs were frustrating frantic attempts to find...

Childhood War Memories: Sheffield

When I was very young, he came home after an attack during the blitz and told my grandparents – his...

War memories: A Child in Chesterfield

I can't remember exactly what we had but mostly it was half a pound of: Sugar fats, meat, cheese,...

The Summer of 1939

Tea over we changed, glamoured up, and after reassuring John that we would be back before midnight or...

Evacuated to Newark

I had been at grammar school at home and now had to go to Newark grammar school we were not welcomed -...

Woodseats to Firth Park in the Blitz

After the battle of Britain, when the Germans started to bomb cities at night, there were sometimes as many...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...

Memories of the Blitz: Doug Sanderson

The 'Phoney War' was finally over when the bombing of many of our major towns and cities started...

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