Sheffield and South Yorkshire

The Forties to 2005

Poems I have written have been broadcast on BBC Radio and are on view at the Petwood Hotel, Thorpe Camp,...

Bombed out in Sheffield

When war was declared in 1939, I was living in a back to back house in Granville Street Sheffield with my 2...

My War, by Hilda Aram

Ivan and his crew were all awarded medals - Ivan got the D.F.C. - and we were all very proud of him....

A Sheffield Tale

The older sisters would help the younger sisters, and then we would go to the Anderson shelter which was in...

VE Day at Darton

I think the actual bun fight was a bit of an anti-climax for me, in that, apart from enjoying a dozen or...

Holes

Daddy was on fire watch duty, a dangerous duty which involved standing on the roof of the factory where he...

My Memories of the Sheffield Blitz

I had Mam and Dad, four sisters and three brothers, so there was quite a tribe of us... We were there 18...

My Worst Moments of the War

This news scared us all, so when I got back home in the evening I made arrangements to return to my...

Through a Toddlers eyes

Radio programmes such as Kitchen Front, Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy, exhorted housewives and...

Cookery Lessons

The boys came down, monitors grabbed first aid boxes or candles and matches, all lined up and went at the...

Irene Shaw's Story

Irene Bennett's Story In 1941, shortly after the Sheffield Blitz, I joined the WAAF... After a...

Minesweeping in The Thames

The lady of the house had two children and she used to go every night, an hour before dark, with her kids,...

Village Life and the WVS: In Kexborough, Barnsley

The next job for the WVS was meeting evacuees at Barnsley Exchange Station....

The War Years 5 - Planes

There was a gun battery on Barr Beacon Hill and Aldridge airfield was in use with fighters, spitfires and...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-48 Part 5

Following the queue, I found myself at the time keepers office with it's chin high hatch in the...

Sheffield Blitz: The Danger of Beetroot

We did have an Anderson shelter but my father didn't really think they where that safe so we always...

Sheffield Blitz

The next thing I remember was being pushed out of the doorway by mother and pulled across a blazing heap of...

I Worked in Munitions

In Highgate, there was a communal shelter in the school yard, for the whole village. During the Sheffield...

Christmas in wartime

The pie, made from Anglo-American cooperation, was to be Christmas Eve supper for the entire family. Mum,...

The War Years 3 - Waste not want not

The cobbler was also a expert in repairing any leather items - belts, bags, gloves and even the odd burst...

A Child's Recollections

It was whilst we were living there that we heard that Dad was going to be with the British Expeditionary...

Desmond Peter Middleton - Who Dares Wins

Following a period at De La Salle College, Sheffield and St Peter's College, Freshfield, Liverpool, Des...

Barnsley was Our Saviour

My mother, who had left her home town of Barnsley to work in London at 16, had decided to bring her young...

I Worked in the Post Office

I had a cousin in the Merchant Navy and he told me all about the ships that got bombed. There were two...

Two Chosen for Evacuation: Heston to Hoyland

I lived in Heston, near Heston Aerodrome, where Neville Chamberlain landed and declared Peace in Our Time...

evacuation experience: London to Chesterfield

It was a tearfull time for us all,there were many chidren on the platforms a clutching their cases and with...