Sheffield and South Yorkshire

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-1948 Part 3

As our period of training was coming to the end and the time came for me to be allotted to colliery in...

I was in the Sheffield Raids

The Sheffield raids started and we went down into the cellars. We finally got a bus to Rotherham, then a...

My Teacher Thought She'd Lost Her Son to the Japs

I also remember seeing a flying bomb chugging away down the bottom of Highgate....

A Reluctant Conscript. 1944-48 Part 10

It was about this time that the Yorkshire lads began to ask me if I had ridden Dandy yet, my answer was...

Mistaken Identity

My father's smallholding was on the road between Rossington and Tickhill, we lived in a clearing in the...

Working at Mappin and Webbs, Sheffield

I worked at Mappin and Webbs, Silversmiths, Sheffield for four war years....

Sharing and Caring

One of our grandparents had diabetes and had to have legs taken off. I went to Park Street School during...

From a Boy Out of a Broken Home yo 'D' Day!

A sister, who had previously worked on finace at a store, was in the area when he moved. because an Italian...

Rod Moor

There was a bright red glow in the sky and I think either my brother, mother or father said they are...

Skipping inSkipton

My mum was widowed with three babies and I was evacuated in 1943 to Skipton with my little brother who was...

Sheffield Bombing

Their house looked over Sheffield and we watched the whole of the bombing. I can remember swimming in a...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-48 Part 7

I had never seen the stables before and was surprised to see a long white-washed, brightly lit area with...

Winding Camouflage onto Reels

My grandfather was a sergeant in the St. John's Ambulance. The area behind Langsett Reservoir became...

Childhood War Memories

Dad was a firewatcher at Penistone Reservoir. The nearest relative who was in the war was an uncle, he was...

One of the First POW's

During his time as a prisoner of war, Jack did many types of hard labour, some of the jobs he had to...

Was He the Enemy

During the war we had a weekend cottage on a farm, a very rural retreat, It was just outside the walls of...

Woods Glass Works

The conveyor belt was the full length of the room. My Auntie Eleanor used to go and sit in the corner when...

A Reluctant Conscript 1944-48 Part 6

Every day air activity was evident, sights of troop carrying gliders being towed by Dakotas and other large...

Dad's Bus was Comandeered

Then when Sheffield was bombed another bus was commandeered to get the workers to Sheffield....

The Story of a Seventeen Year Old

MRS. LINDA MARGARET WILLIAMS FOR HER FATHER KENNETH FENWICK AND FRIEND CLIFFORD DAVIS. At the age of...

Memories from Yorkshire

One night while all us six kids where in bed my mother shouted upstairs telling us to get back to bed and...

Child of the Blitz:Sheffield

Because this was not diagnosed for a few weeks, it was suspected that the ankle bone had become tubercular...

The Nazis Bombed My School, Sheffield

The ‘glow’ in the sky had not been Sheffield steel works it had been our school....

Youth Club Visited the Bevan Boys

We went to the nearest school eventually and I remember two classes from Agnes Road junior girls school...

Hull Fireman’s Daughter

Although living in Sheffield now, I was born in Hull and was aged three years when the war broke out. I was...

Purple Dye Took Well!

My dolls pram was very old and would be an antique if I had kept it. At home we didn't go to...