Suffolk

Not Another Bombing

Ihave been bombed twice first at the age of four in Mill Road, Bury St Edmunds in the First World War and...

The Wizard of Oz

I remember going to see ‘The Wizard of Oz’ which must have been one of the first technicolour...

No Bullets Allowed in Class

I can also recalls the children bartering with German Reichmarks and swopping books and information about...

Childhood Memories from Bury St Edmunds

I live in Bury St Edmunds and recall how as children we used to try and make kites out of the silver...

The Blackbird

I can still remember it as it if were yesterday - the ring itselt was about an inch long and 3/16" wide...

National Service - Trade Training

The driver cum conductor was a somewhat butch type of woman who controlled the passengers on the bus with a...

Wartime Love Story in Suffolk

Saturday evening was dance night and I guess one one of these occasions she met and fell in love with the...

Unexploded Bomb in Holywells Park.

Next thing we knew about it was that we were told there was an unexploded bomb in Holywells Park, just near...

Roebeck Road, Ipswich, Air Raids.

Roebeck Road, Ipswich, Air Raids. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum with Mr Hutton's permission....

At Trimley During the War.

We were living with my aunt and uncle at Trimley, near Felixstowe. Felixstowe was the base of the torpedo...

Bouncing bomb at Bishops Hill, Ipswich

It was a bouncing bomb that fell at the top of Bishops Hill, bouncing over Holywells Park, striking houses...

Land Army Memories, Edna King

There were about half a dozen Ipswich girls, and a number of Londoners and girls from Yorkshire....

Still Dancing

When I returned home to Hatfield, At the local community centre after dinner; Checking notices a...

School Sports and Jelly

My father used to refer to the “three P's, the Parson, the Publican and the Policeman”, and...

Why Aren't We Up There?

Nacton aerodrome was a small grass airfield and was home to target towing aicraft only.The pilots were what...

Fire Away

On Holton Aerodrome,the United States Army Air Force had an efficient fire brigade,but for much of the time...

Beat Off Dive-Bombers with Lewis Guns

Lance Bombardier Patrick William White, No. 6462311, Royal Artillery, 69th Searchlight Regiment, 458...

Land Army Housewives Course-1945

If the threshing machine came to our farm the Land Girls, who invariably got all the dirtiest, dirtiest...

Entertainment in Raydon

I remember cycling from Raydon with friends to meet up with others at the cinema in Hadleigh. I grew up...

German Plane Crashes at Ipswich Docks

They reckon he got past barrage balloons and everything, and he went right down to the docks and crashed on...

My Brother's War in the Marines

My brother Fred Easty was 20 years old and worked for Pasinis Ashfelting Company. He spent the rest of the...

A Bomb on Fletcher Road, Ipswich.

A Bomb on Fletcher Road, Ipswich. I went to South East Ipswich Boys' School, by Romley Road....

Land Army Memories, Irene Renvoise

Land Army memories — Irene Renvoize....

Breaking the Blackout

I saw the plane, which was one of ours, crash in Holywells Park. I moved house during the War and the...

A Tin of Balloons

The Americans at the airbases near us, such as Parham and Debach, used to take all their rubbish to a dump...

Back from the Dead

On the morning after one raid we went on our bikes to see what had happened at Rushmere Heath. My mother...