Suffolk

Mystery Stradishall WAAF

My next step was to contact the Air Historical Branch at RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex, who were...

Evacuation: From Essex to Lowestoft

There were more than enough teachers at Park to accompany those children in park whose parents wished them...

Up the North Sea on a Pleasure Boat - Gravesend's War

We left home very early on Saturday Sept.2nd and boarded a pleasure steamer called ‘The Royal...

A Vivid Childhood Memory.

I thought of the endless days that must be spent in the big empty, and gloomy, school with four boys and my...

The boy and the kitten

I do remember that rainy day when my Mum my Brother and myself were helped on to the back of a lorry...

Born into war

Dad was called up to join the Grenadier Guards when I was a year old and the night before he was due...

From Tottenham to Tuddenham

There was a crater in Tuddenham and the windows of my sister's bedroom were shattered. So, I often...

My Wartime Wedding

I was engaged to Ted who was a Regular in the RAF and stationed at 32 MU St Athans, South Wales... Ted...

Bernard's Wartime Childhood in Ipswich

The shelter had its own distinctive atmosphere; a mixture of candlewax and the dank smell of earth.I can...

Childhood Memories: In Ipswich

These coupons which were a pound and a half a month.IE 1 e =a quarter of a pound 1 d = 2...

Childhood Memories: In Suffolk

These coupons which were a pound and a half a month.IE 1 e =a quarter of a pound 1 d = 2...

Extracts form Winifred Basham's diary 1939-1945 Chapter 1

Wed Sept 20th - Percy was fixing up the coalshed so we can get a stock of coal and coke in before...

Ipswich Wartime through the Eyes of a Child. Part 1.

On Sunday 10th November 1940, with my auntie, carried me along Rope Walk from Oxford Road, where I was...

A Londoner's Wartime Story, Part 2

This airfield was about 2 miles from our cottage, and wasn't even completed when a group of twin engine...

RAF Bomber Navigator

I remember that he went out one night over Germany in '45, when his bomber, a Lancaster, received a...

In the Beginning... Childhood Memories in Suffolk

Then, I can remember the retreat from Dunkirk; there was no news of Dad at all and I can hear my mother...

With the Suffolk Royal Engineers

In addition to routine office duties, the CQMS allocated to me the amending of King's Regulations,...

Ronald Edgar Remfry at Chedburgh and Fairford, 1943 to D day

From Chedburgh the squadron was posted to a new aerodrome at Leicester East, at a place called Oadby, on...

A wedding breakfast

The farmer lost the right to use Land Army girls. Another different lifestyle, this time with five other...

Reflections of World War 2

I also remember on one occasion sitting on my bike at the harbour bridge which was open to shipping at the...

Two Short Evacuations

We lived in East London and I was the middle child of five - my sister Joan was 10 years older than...

Friendship

Travelling around at that time was very restricted, so we did not get to see much of East Germany other...

Big Ben and Doodle Bugs

On one occasion, I had been out in Felixstowe and was waiting for a Taxi in the railway station, with its...

Charlie Nearly Blows It!

My mother upon opening the door was horrified to find her children on the step encompassed by the arms of...

Ipswich Wartime through the Eyes of a Child. Part 2.

Sometimes Mum took me for walks to play in Alexandra Park and Christchurch Park. One thing that people who...

When the War Started I Was 17 and Very Fond of Dancing

When the War Started I Was 17 and Very Fond of Dancing...