Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Fish and Chip Supper

Tony Morley was 9 and living in Shiregreen Lane when the following incident, which he remembers vividly,...

Notre Dame boarding school

The convent of Notre Dame in Sheffield had been evacuated to Ashopton, and was housed in the Duke of...

Dodworth Wartime Memories

Sammy Epson was the greengrocer at the bottom of Dodworth. Woods glass company gave all the children in...

The Blitz December 12, 1940

Mr. Richardson, who was my friend's dad, had a brick shelter in his yard. Mr. Richardson flew in the...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-48 Part 9

Monckton Colliery and it's flaming coke and chemical plant sat on a hill a overlooking Royston, a...

Evacuation: London to Teignmouth and wakefield

It was unfortunate that the Germans actually dropped some bombs on Teignmouth that night and we all spent...

Shrapnel was Stuck in the Doors and Walls

The milk was in churns and we ladled it out at the door....

VE Day Celebrations at Tankersley

I was hoisted onto dad's shoulders, the torches were lit and we all set off up the new road towards...

Wartime Miner

I worked at Dodworth Colliery during the war; I was a fitter, keeping the machinery going. The Yanks used...

Charlie Hever -An Unexploded Bomb

I remember an incident when an incendiary bomb had been dropped around the area of Firth Street Mills in...

Boyhood Memories

He was in the Pioneer Corps, then the Kings Yorkshire Light Infantry and then was moved into the Parachute...

Growing up in the War

My grandfather had a grocers shop at Broomhill, Sheffield. I joined the Wombwell Youth Group where I met my...

War Memories from My Childhood

The brother in the Navy went all over, Murmansk and America etc. My Airforce brother was a guard of honour...

Did I tell you about? Wartime Pastry Making

One Christmas, We, the family that is thought that we had cracked it when one member of the family came...

I couldn't see!

Doncaster was surrounded by bomber stations, and all we little kids were used to the various engine noises...

Wedding Day Blues: In Sheffield

This was the weekend of the Sheffield Blitz, starting on the evening of the 12th December in which my...

Wartime Memories

I was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in December 1939 and I have three vivid memories relating to the Second...

We Played Cards for Entertainment

When I came home we used to go dancing at Goldthorpe catholic Church Hall. She thought she was a bit better...

In Hospital during the War

I'd had an operation on my back, I had abscesses on my back and when the bombs fell we were taken and...

A Child's War Years - Sheffield

My cousin Jim had only recently been rescued from Dunkirk and he didn't know which was worse, waiting...

My late father: Sheffield Blitz

Dad was employed by Firth Brown down the east end of Sheffield in Attercliffe, as an overhead crane driver...

Grated Carrots to Help the Sugar Ration

When sugar rations were low I used to put grated carrots in my baking for sweetness....

In the NAAFI, Sheffield and Horsham

I had to catch three buses to get to Sheffield from my home which was in a village Nr Barnsley,it was...

Sidney's Story of the Sheffield Blitz

By the time my mum and dad got home the there where so many bombs dropping it was too dangerous to go...

Evacuated from Brighton to Ripponden

I was evacuated from Brighton to Ripponden in 1941 at the age 7 and was there until 1944....

A stray bomber

No sirens had gone so I didn't worry when, all at once, I noticed the Iron Cross on the underside of...