Cheshire

Childhoold in Chester During the War

I left school during the war at 14yrs old, I went to work as a cashier at Henry Dodds the butchers in...

Looking After the Land Girls

Mary lived in and 3 bedroom house with her 4 children and land girls. Mary spent lots of time cooking and...

Memories Of A Childhood in Wartime Warrington by Olive Scholes

At night-time, if the siren went in the early hours, our family went downstaris to the kitchen, where there...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Heaviley by Ann Birch (nee Simpson)

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Heaviley by Ann Birch. My Dad was medically unfit for active service, so...

Happy Days

I lived in Macclesfield all through the war and only being young I had a Mickey Mouse gas mask which we all...

My Working Experience in a Grocery Shop in Congleton, Cheshire

Hopkins of Congleton Museum on behalf of Mrs. Eileen Skerratt and has been added to the site with her...

Bombs on Ashton New Road

The bomb landed about 1/4 mile away....

Venice, Lemons and Montgomerey's turn of the War

Included in these was a brass gondola, a hat that matched a red coat that we bought when he was on leave,...

A Child's War

I remember my daddy carrying me down to the cellar on my mattress when the siren sounded... At the end of...

LIfe in Farndon - Betty Penk

Me and a friend used to cycle to Chester everyday for work... I remember the Church bells not being rang...

My General Service Medal

On the 50th anniversary of the ending of the war they presented me with my General Service medal —...

Under The Stairs

Once I started to feel the vibrations of the falling bombs I picked up my two children and carried them to...

Evacuees In Waverton

At the beginning of the war I was a little girl aged 7 years attending a local primary school about 5 miles...

A Fine Blackout

Aunt Mary now in her late eighties got herself into a bit of trouble with the law during the blackout. A...

Black out and other precautions

Dad was an air raid warden and then a fire man at Liverpool Docks... All our boy friends were Air Gadets or...

Where are you now Oliver Harrison?

My aunt, Sarah Barton, had a teenager evacuee called Oliver Harrison and one day when I was in her house...

Bombed in Wallasy

Normally we would hide under the stairs during an air raid, but our neighbour had an Anderson shelter which...

Farm life

It was always really good fun and we taught them English. One of the officers used to go shooting rabbits...

Sense of Community

At Christmas my Aunt would entertain the evacuees and the American forces, who were based in Warrington at...

John Gibson in the Home Guard

Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of John Gibson and has been added to the site with his permission....

The Salvage Cup

We were encouraged to bring waste paper to school and some of us started to collect it from houses,shops...

My Long Walk

On a day pass to see my wife I had to walk from Chester to Market Drayton... I went all over the...

My First Air Raid

All stayed at Aunty Lilly and Uncle Frank's house... At other times Aunty Lilly and Unle Frank slept...

Childhood Memories of the War in Farndon

Margaret Norman has lived in Farndon all her life. When the evacuees arrived in Farndon from Liverpool....

Bad bread

During the war we couldn't buy proper bread from the shop, it was all doughy and tasted really...

The Youngest Shorthand Typist

In 1939 at 16 years old, I was the youngest shorthand typist working in the Education Department in...