Isle of Wight

Easily Led

My Uncle went to ground in Weston Super Mare with a distant elderly relative - he only lasted a few weeks...

Land Army Memories

My uniform came from Womens Land Army, Epsom Road, Guildford, and the first job I had at Norris Castle was...

Written in Camp at Nettlestone, Isle of Wight - 1943

The poem below was submitted by Bert Tolfree (11053245), to BBC Radio Stoke. He was posted to 523 battery...

Visiting the Isle of Wight

In the summer of 1940 my sister and I together with an aunt and uncle, decided to visit another aunt who...

A direct hit - on the Isle of Wight

When I was with 403 Searchlight Battery, part of my service during WW2 was spent on the Isle of Wight. We...

Gone on Holiday: Internment on the Isle Of Wight

After the first world war a German prisoner decided to stay in England and he bought a house in Hatley...

A little boy's memory: On the Isle of Wight

When my late husband was a little boy growing up on the Isles of Wight, he was at the local village school...

A Child's Memory: In Cowes

I remember standing on a road above the railway track leading into Cowes Railway Station, looking out over...

Early Schooldays: Bomb in the Vicarage, Ryde, Isle of Wight

The local church hall was brought into use as an Infant school which I attended at the age of five.The...

Evacuated to St Catherine's, Ventnor, Isle of Wight

I suffered very badly from asthma, so I was sent to a convalescent home on the Isle of Wight....

Stealing Eggs For Breakfast

I was born at Mersey Farm, Newchurch on the Isle of Wight in 1936... The first repel of D-Day at five in...