Suffolk

War Time Stories at Framlingham.

My father, who had a small-holding used to raise a few chickens, turkeys etc, to kill for Christmas... My...

"Over There!"

I could tell you endless tales of that time, some funny, some sad, but the story for you is about Creamed...

HMS Ganges

Uncle Fred will be here soon”. Uncle Fred was taking me to the station to catch the 6am train to...

Dances, Dances and More Dances

Rose's eldest brother was captured in Germany and placed in a POW camp, and eventually made friends...

Childhood Wartime Memories

Probably only known today for its beer and to historians for its motto: “Sacrarium Regis, Cunabula...

Land Army Memories Hazel & Doris

We went to the same school, but then only met up again as Land Army girls up at Sutton Hoo....

An Unusual Place to Store Food

My elder sister and I slept in a shed that was decorated and parked behind the caravan and my younger...

Momentary Panic: At Stansfield Working Mens Club

Living in Stansfield during the war meant we were surrounded by airfields; Stradishall, Chedburgh,...

The War of Two Sailors part five

August 28th 1948 Twenty three year old Harold Ernest Williams married Marjorie Edna King on the day before...

My Evacuation: London to Suffolk by Boat

I was living at 10 West Street, S. Stifford with mum Ellen, Dad Albert, siblings John, Betty, & Joan......

Stud Duck Memories of a "Clapper Boy"

The main object of the NFU was to go round the country filming war time Britten and to show the general...

Ipswich Air Raids

My father was going away to the army and my mother and myself and my sister Moe were left at home in...

Family Life in the War

I helped parents make Dolls House for sister for Christams 1943 using cardboard and paper. I remember dried...

A Chapter of Narrow Escapes

For a time I stayed at my Grandmother's and one evening the Germans were dropping incendiary bombs in...

Helmingham: Rural Suffolk in the War.

My father worked at Helmingham Hall, the Tolemache Estate. In 1940 I ended at Parson's School,...

Memories of Estate Children

Our father was at Sutton Hoo for about 20 years, and during that time he found Mrs Pretty's son Robert...

The War of Two Sailors part One

Emil Weingaertner was working as a seventeen year old farm labourer at Banat, near Timisora, Romania when...

A True Love Story

Call-up papers came, and George went from a small Suffolk village to Devon to train for the Army......

RUBY'S STORY

I LIVED AT THE GREE FARM COTTAGES IN SMALL FARM CALLED REDLINGFIELD, NR EYE IN SUFFOLK.WITH ME LIVED MY...

Evacuated from Ipswich to Birmingham

It got so bad in Birmingham we had to return to Ipswich, on the train home we had to stop just outside...

A Busy War

My brother Pat was in the Navy as a Chief Petty Officer... Doll, Ida and Marjorie worked in the NAAFE,...

1945 End of the War

Eddie Bowen is in London, and will be visiting B.L.E.U. next Thursday, so I think it would be worth while...

Bombed 11 Days Later

The second thing was that because of the threat of bombing that was the day our family were evacuated from...

Airfield Driving

Soon the Squadron had to move to R.A.F. Mildenhall in Suffolk and this is something that remains in my mind...

Life in the Land Army

I was at Sutton Hoo from ’46 — 48, as Land Army girls had to sign on for 2 years... My...

Junkers 88 Shot Down at Worlingham Marsh

I was watching from about 5 miles away and saw the two crew come out onto the wing, jump clear and open...