Worcestershire

My Mum Used To Knit Stockings In The Police Station

He had to sit by the phone in the police station for emergency calls, and mother sat there too, knitting...

My Time on the Farm

There was a lot of bombing of Birmingham and I was travelling each day from Blackheath to Handsworth....

My Grandfather

My Grandmother always kept detailed diaries and it was obviously incrediably moving to read about this...

Japanese Prisoners

The patients there had all been prisoners of the Japanese and were left with appalling leg ulcers which had...

"Mr. CHAD"

All available silk was needed for making parachutes. American soldiers over here could get "Nylon"...

The Victory Girls and their War Effort, Worcester

Around that time, for a couple of years my Mum and I organised the local small girls into a concert party....

Memories of Stoke Works

The Cadbury boats came up the cut with crumb made at Blackpole on their way to Bournville... At night we...

US Troops at Camp Bewdley, Worcestershire

They had a military hospital here, at Wolverley; which is now a caravan park but on the old Wolverley...

Evacuee of World War 2: From London to Upton-on-Severn

Towards the end of the war i was sent to parkhouse in Shifnal Shropshire.At parkhouse we watched the troop...

A Memory of Worcester During the War.

We assembled in the back of the Factory ready to march, not realising that the boys from the Metal Box had...

Memories Of a VAD at Berrington

I left Berrington on the morning of D Day for the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas's Hospital...

Pig Share-Out

GEORGE BITMAN has always lived in Longdon, and worked on a farm in Welland near Malvern. They salted the...

Outbreak of World War Two - Effect on World War One Veteran

My Dad had been through WW1 & had never forgotten the horror of the trenches in France....

'A Bit Extra' This Week!

Mine was very good and would give me a 'marrow bone' which I boiled with veg for the babies. One...

From Tank Tracks to Lambing

I helped at Barnsley Hall when the Dunkerque soldiers were billeted there for recovery... I had a good time...

Tea, Sandwiches and Fire Watching

I remember sitting up on the flat roof of Baggot's Factory in the Diglis Basin on the lookout for...

Gas Masks and POWs

They were brought in each day on a lorry - Germans and Italians. To be honest, the Italians weren't...

Ack-Ack

My mother sent me to the shop, I was walking down Belbroughton Road in Blakedown. There was a terrific...

We Still Keep in Touch

At St. Clements School during air-raids practice, we had to go into the Church crypt and put our gas masks...

Knickers

These underclothes were sent to my mother from Italy by my father whilst he was fighting in Italy. I still...