Leicestershire and Rutland

The Boys in Khaki

As a school girl aged 13 at home with my parents, brother and sister we lived very near to Oldbury Hall...

Barbara's Childhood Memories of the Summertime in WW2

I remember visiting my uncle in Tydd St. Giles in Lincolnshire where he worked on a farm....

I Was an Evacuee in Leicestershire

Now with the natural resilience of a child, and having been given a brown paper carrier bag containing...

Canadian Clowns

This Canadian convoy - their battledress was a smooth greenish shade, expensive looking, and well fitted,...

Bombed 11 Days Later

The second thing was that because of the threat of bombing that was the day our family were evacuated from...

Mrs. Brooks Remembers [Mrs.Brooks]

I was living in Leicester when the war broke out; just 17 years old and working in a silk factory. Then I...

WW2 Memories of Josephine Jukes

I was 11 years old and was evacuated to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, from Erdington Grammar School to join other...

Bombed in Camberwell and Evacuated to Leicestershire by Terence Davies

My Dad was working at Battersea Power Station but he came to see us and met a friend from London and he...

Snippets of Wartime Memories: In Surrey, Leicester and South Africa

Snippets of memories of World War 2 Some snippets of memories gathered by volunteers at the Epsom and Ewell...

A Boy in Melton Mowbray

There was a small crack in my window pane and when the bomb fell, although I did not hear the explosion,...

How the War Affected My Family

The morning she received the telegramme my Dad had missed his shift at the pit as he had slept in so he...

Memories of a Dried-Egg Lover!

Lutterworth I remember that there were many troops going through the town. There was also the cinema in...

Schoolboy Memories

At the time of the incident dad was on war work at Desford Aerodrome, mam was in the Royal Infirmary after...

Christmas 1940 and How We Discovered that the Real Santa Claus was really Uncle Dick.

Christmas Eve 1940 came upon us and it was decided that Dad would unchain the grating to the coal-cellar,...

Mars Bars and Silk Knickers

I also remember the German POW's, based at Stoughton, they laid the concrete bases for the prefabs on...

No Lights: The Home Guard in Leicester

He was stationed at Braunstone Hall in Braunstone Park, a large mansion which had, for many years, been a...

May 1944

As I approached my grandmother's house I saw lots of strange army lorries which were parked and...

Leicester in Wartime

I lived in Leicester during the war just off Saffron Lane, 84 Landsdowne Road... You could see a bed...

The 'Silent Noise'

During the War a very loud noise could be heard all over Lutterworth. I suppose it was a noise that...

Sarah Jane Hancock. My Time in the Land Army: In Leicestershire

I joined up when I was 18, and I went to Sutton Hoo Hostel, Bromeswell near Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1943....

Rationing Meant Trying All Sorts of Things

The war to me as a child meant that food was always a problem I would queue for hours in food queues...

Dad's Homecoming

I think that it was in 1946, but I remember lying in bed with my brother when we heard the sound of...

Tess

My sister was crying as an American soldier got out of his lorry and pulled Tess on to the other side of...

Bombing in Leicester

Leicester was lucky in many ways as we did not suffer bombing in the same way as many other cities. That...

An evacuee in Groby

So back I went to Groby to another branch of the Burdett family, Mark and Sarah 9both pensioners, their...

Alan's War Time Memories: Living in London, Wymondham and North Berwick

I don't remember when we moved back to London but when I was 7-8 I was in North Berwick with an Aunt...