Leicestershire and Rutland

Digging for Victory in Sapcote.

There was one French family renting a house in Sapcote, with a girl and a boy... There was a factory in...

A Brief History of a WW2 Evacuee

A bus was waiting to take about 20 children to Barrowden, a beautiful village beside the River Welland. I...

Army Life in the Pay Corps

Before Christmas I received orders to join the Royal Army Pay Corps at Leicester. Factories, some two or...

Everday Life in Leicester in WW2

Went to dances in the evening and the girls did their hair with a shampoo called Twink — and they...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Hinckley.

We had lots of evacuees here, from London, Coventry, Swansea, Birmingham, Scotland and other places... My...

My Grandad, the Engineer

My Grandad was an Engineer in the Leicester Transport Unit,. He was fixing an engine when another young...

Childhood Memories of the War

A few were found in the rugby pitch on Leicester Road, but the only bomb damage I saw, was when cycling to...

Letters to Home

I have the photo of you and mummy, it's on my table. I see you are still making mummy a cup of...

Evacuees

Children from large towns like Coventry and Birmingham... Late one night, after the Birmingham girls had...

Memoirs of World War Two in the Coalville Area

Olive's sister, Betty Bowler volunteered to serve abroad. On VE day Olive was at Madam Thirlby's...

Life in the Air Force

He flew with 144 Squadron from North Luffenham aerodrome. If you couldn't see the runway or the...

School Days

At school one gymnasium became a packing department and instead of a P.T. lesson we packed greasy little...

A Day We Will Never Forget

By the time the news had reached Garner's Garage on Scalford End where Dad was a fitter it was rumoured...

From Coventry to Butlins By Charles Cook

The following year my family moved to Earl Shilton in Leicestershire and the closest I came to being bombed...

War memories

Towards the end of the war when the americans had left, they were replaced by German prisoners who roamed...

Halloween and Bonfire Night 1940

We were Church of England, my cousin Geoffrey and me, and were members of the choir at St Michael's and...

A Child's War at Home

My mother had two work in an enginiering works makeing parts for planes, so I had to go to my granparents...

AMBUSHING THE HOME GUARD

Rob Morris First memory I had an abiding fear of the Mickey Mouse gasmask that children had to war. My...

Dorothy's Memories of WW2

Meanwhile great strides were being made in radar and air technology and slowly we began to gain the upper...

Leicester 1940: Boyhood Memories of the Raids

At the time of the Cavendish Road daylight raid on 21st August 1940 my friend Geoff Ireland and myself had...

A Farmer's Daughter

Leicester was bombed and Freeman, Hardy and Willis a large shoe factory on the corner of Humberstone Gate...

Reminiscences of Wartime Experiences - RAF Sergeant C.E.Peck 1869271 1943-1946

My training commenced at Swansea Technical College and finally finished at RAF Bomber Command 514 Squadron...

A Child's Story

Realizing that war was imminent, my grandparents built two adjacent houses in Asfordby where they lived and...

Joyce Mason, Air Road Warden - Billeting Officer

I was Chief Petty Officer, and was marching a squad of girls through the college, and a plane came down...

WW2 Childhood in Walcote, Lutterworth

My dad was colour blind so he became an A.F.S During blackout my mum and Dad were constantly worrying about...

All Flying and no Fighting!

On taking off I felt the aircraft did not have the correct flying attitude and only by sliding the hood...