Sheffield and South Yorkshire

A Driver's Tale

Although Billy had been born in Burnley his parents were from Yorkshire and returned to Keighley in the...

Sheffield Blitz

It was a parachute bomb and it had exploded, badly damaging approximately 12 houses in a horseshoe shape in...

Refugees came to Our School

There was a girl called Angela Cornett and a boy, John Cornett, both from Jersey. It was signed by the...

My Life As A Schoolboy During The 2nd World War

We used to have a ‘Holiday At Home’ fortnight in Clifton Park, but one bank holiday Monday, a...

Doreen's Sheffield Blitz

We had our car parked there and my father opened the passenger door for me and put in my seat, he then...

Family Life in the War

My Mum made dinner, one Auntie looked after the children and the other Auntie sewed. Another Auntie was in...

Hoyland Reached their Warship Week Target

Went on to Sheffield on my own, there was some damage before Wicker Arches but Wicker Arches to Fitzallen...

Racing Pigeons in War Time

Thorne is quite near to Lindholme aerodrome from where we could hear the low hum of the Lancaster...

Just a Boy in the War: Blitz on Sheffield

My other reaction was that the Germans must have been pretty rotten at aiming their bombs because they had...

Teenager Prisoner of War

My Dad was an amateur boxer, and Harold was always interested in boxing. After the war, my mother kept all...

VE Day in Rock Street, Pitsmoor

From Walkley, after being bombed, we went to live in Rock Street, Pitsmoor. I went to Pye Bank School by...

Where's my Mam

We all had our little gas masks and a carrier bag containing goodies and a chocolate bar, my school friend...

I Was a Number Taker

As a young girl during the war I remember going to dances with my friend Annie to the Futurist, which was...

The War Years 2 - Buses

Midland Red buses, which ran from Leicester Street in Walsall to Birmingham along Birmingham Road, were red...

Alec the Evacuee

Alec and Lawrence had to use the syrupy top of the apple pie as a sweetener for the rest of the week...

We Saw the Glow from the Incendiary Bombs at York

My brother who was in the army had made friends with a New Zealand lad in the army... They once sent a...

Mrs M Hirst-A child during the war

One of the doodle bugs came over Meltham as they were aiming for David Browns... When I think back to...

Service with the BAOR

I told the cook to give him supper and then i said 'Hans, bring me a groot teller' he brought a...

The War Years 6 - VE day in Aldridge

On VE day, Victory in Europe, there were huge bonfires and it was while burning rubbish from the rabbit...

Homecoming

I was born on the 20th of November 1939 and lived in a 2 up 2 down end of terrace house with...

Sitting on the Railings Watching the Bombs

We'd sit on the railings at the top of Gilroyd and watch the bombs coming down on Sheffield. We used to...

The Blitz As Seen by a Child: In Sheffield

One of my Schoomates had been killed in their Anderson shelter while knitting.I only learned later how...

The Blitz (Sheffield)

I was evacuated to my grandparents in Doncaster, with my cousin who also lived in Sheffield. I had two...

Memories of Our Shop and the Rations

The land for the streets off Main Street at Wombwell was given as charity for 1 guinea. The streets were...

Darton War Memories

Going to school between Darton and Barnsley — buses scarce, unreliable and overcrowded. Lighting was...

Growing Food on the Home Front

To combat food shortages farmers were encouraged to plough up more and in order to grow more corn and...