Wiltshire

'Top Secret' News of Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima. As told by Son in Law Richard Wintle.

As a telephone engineer one of his responsibilities was for the secret world of Highworth and Shrivenham....

Mountain Artillery

My initial training was undertaken at Norwich and we were told, "Never get anywhere near the Mountain...

Bombs at Hilperton

I have always been intrigued by a photograph in a book of old Trowbridge history showing bomb damage which...

A Young Evacuee in Wiltshire by Catherine Ford

I was an evacuee in Devizes in Wiltshire in 1914....

Wartime life in Tisbury

Later that year evacuees bombed out of London descended on Tisbury. Pictures The Cole family Doris Stan who...

Love at First Sight

In the Tithe barn in Tisbury dances with old time waltzes were the order of the day and Betty's card...

Nearly Bombed as a Child in Salisbury

Although there were quite a few air raid warnings, Salisbury was spared too many bombs because the...

Life in a Boarding School

I found work in a boy's school near Ludlow, in an old mansion of a house, called Downton Hall. I...

Land Army Life

In 1940 I joined the Women's Land Army and was sent to Savernake Forest to work on Warren Farm. Before...

Were They Really Spies?

The older folk were gossiping - we were playing, when along came a motorcycle and sidecar - the two young...

A Memorable Day For A 7 Year Old

The young man was Martin Collins a paratrooper who was engaged to be married to my much older sister... On...

Royal Visits to Trowbridge

Another time she visited a factory in the town centre... History was in fact being repeated because this...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 51

Next we were taken along to some aircraft hanger where to our surprise, some very kind W.A.A.F.personnel...

Arrival at Porton Down 1940

I was transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps and posted to the Chemical Defence Experimental Station...

A Dirty Job

These trains only had one toilet at each end of the train so by the time the trains reached Swindon they...

A Child During the War

We went back to our home in Warminster, an army town, and because our house was fairly large we had two...

The POWs and Us

Like so many families we were evacuated from the city to get us out of harms' way for the duration.I...

Life as an evacuee

Prior to the start of the war we had lived in Toronto Road, Tilbury but the house was uninhabitable after...

Child Volunteers

During the war children volunteered to help in many ways such as collecting old newspapersand magazines,...

On the Move Again

On the Move Again...

Food

My wife Marilyn was pondering today why my way of relating to people so often seems to involve food. During...

Most Frightening Experience of WWII - A Donkey in Wiltshire

However, he used to tell us that his most frightening incident of the war happened when he was on leave...

Guns and Mud: Life in the ATS

However all was revealed and on passing our Trade Test we joined our first battery, then to firing camp on...

My Dad the Tiger Moth Pilot.

My Dad the Tiger Moth Pilot. The first one was when he was doing a bit of flying on his own over...

Memories of a Bournemouth Boy [Anon.]

I remember bombs dropping in Hannington Place, Boscombe and Gloucester Road, Boscombe. During the war there...

Gas Masks at the Ready

The factory was just down the road from Tisbury at Pythouse tennis club which had been taken over by the...