Suffolk

My Story

I remember being very excited to receive a tiny doll which I call Charlie. I had to wait until I was seven...

More on Suffolk Coast in Wartime.

Mr Alfred Creswell has already described the sinking of the Gypsy in Harwich Harbour. Ipswich Museum talked...

German Bail-Out Over Bramford Road, Ipswich.

German Bail-Out Over Bramford Road, Ipswich. Bombs and incendiary devices didn't always go off, and...

My First Plane Crash

I saw a Flying Fortress go over from Parham and saw it crash into some nearby woods. After the crash, the...

Myrtle Road's Bouncing Bomb

It bounced from Alan Road to Myrtle Road, where it exploded in an apple orchard....

Waddling Duck Hill

When I was at Foxhall in the land army I'd have to collect a horse from the meadow every morning so it...

A Pair of Stockings

Until then my mother had worn lyle type stockings or dyed her legs ..... In forcing the stockings into the...

J A Martin DFC - Strong winds over River Cams?

J A Martin DFC - Strong winds over River Cams. When we were out carrying out an air test on our aircraft...

Memories of a Mixed ATS Battery

I was with 558 Battery, 161 regiment, and we were the first mixed battery of ATS. I do remember that the...

Lucky Day

My father worked for the admiralty during the war, as he was a marine engineer working on the warships as...

Dig for Victory

Tobacco was in very short supply and so dad grew his own, which he matured in dried milk tins in the airing...

My Mother

Young USA soldiers and airmen used to send messages to their families....

Rings From Aircraft Glass

As children we used to peer through their windows to look at models of aircraft, Spitfires and German...

Coconut by Post

I collected rose hips from Holywells Park, and took them to a little shop which was in “The...

Waste Not Want Not

My husband, Ted, was working at the Cranes factory, working from eight at night until eight in the...

The White Lion ARP HQ

We had our headquarters in the ‘White Lion’ pub in rooms out the back which have since been...

Teen Years

We all had scary moments with bombs exploding, gunfire noise, etc. An unexploded huge bomb landed killing...

Flying Bomb

His home was near the airfield, he watched from an upstairs window as a flying bomb approached low over his...

A Wartime Loss

We would read the Vatican paper to see if there was any news. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum for Mrs Sanders,...

Your Country Needs You!

Eric Leggett recalls how he and his brother were gazing out of their sash window at the ocean wondering...

Bramford at War

I ran a shop in Bramford and there was great hardship in terms of shortages. Another time a German plane...

Martlesham Memories

I was a young girl during the War and I can remember sitting on a wall one day near the RAF base...

Evacuees in Kersey

We lived in Kersey and my mum took in two evacuees. We had two dear children, a boy and a girl, and...

The Thrill of Being Shot At

A Messerschmitt came over firing its machine guns... I ran home to tell my mum as happy as could be....

Evicted by Frogs

Dad said that if the siren went Mum should get all us five children inside. If we were inside the house...

The Broken Book Case

I remember the mine dropped in cemetery Road in Ipswich and it shattered my mother's glass fronted...