Leicestershire and Rutland

Sheep's Head Stew

If the local sweetshop had a delivery of chocolate, word would quickly spread amongst friends, and the...

Convoy Stumped by Zorro and his Gang

So young enthusiasm unleashed from the educational bonds and goaded by the weather marauded as Zorro or Tom...

Sleepless Nights in Frank Whittle's Lutterworth

One was from London – his brother was eventually brought over, as the bombing was so bad in London....

Childhood Memories

My father, who is 93 now, was in the Royal Engineers 8th Army, known as Montgomeries men or ‘Desert...

Egg And Chips For Winston

One time, we had the pleasure of cooking egg and chips for Winston Churchill whilst on a Troop Train...

Schoolgirl in Earl Shilton

I grew up in Earl Shilton and was eleven and a half when the war started... They gave free dances at the...

We Did Our Bit

I was at school during the war; at the Wyggeston Girls Grammar School, which was one of the Leicester...

Asian Experience

There were very few, three or four Asian people in Leicester. Later, Leicester Hotel was built in its...

War-Time Food and Rationing

Janet and Doreen's memories - Dried eggs were very nice, especially if mixed with water and fried in a...

Parachute drop in the Welland Valley (East of Market Harborough)

I think it was on August 25th I was stooking wheat. I was in a field overlooking the Welland Valley when I...

Joan Hack's war

My 2 brothers were with a different family in Leicester, the Mosely's, and they loved it... Dad used to...

Evacuee in Hinckley in WW2.

I was evacuated from Coventry, where the bombing was really bad, and sent to Hinckley to stay with my...

Is There A War On?

We moved to be with his parents in the almshouses in Sutton Cheney, a small village in Leicestershire... It...

Home Memories of World War 2: Working in a Laboratory in Leicester

I spoke to Margaret, who is 83 years old, and lives in the Rushey Mead Manor residential home....

Nuneaton School Teacher

I was an infant school teacher in Nuneaton, in charge of a class of five-year-olds. The children, in an...

Gas Masks

The windows in the classroom were small pane with sticky paper strips all over them, in case they broke if...

Smiles All Round

This way, new faces - same repartee - got any chocolate mister? - got any spare cap badges? and of course...

Birth during an Air Raid

However, after this had happened once or twice, most of the patients found it so nerve-racking with the...

Reminiscences of a Meltonian

I later went to work for Boulton and Paul helping to make the Horsa gliders which were used in the Arnhem...

Growing Up In Hinckley During Wartime

'I was five years old when the Germans bombed Merivale Avenue in Hinckley. There were serveral sites in...

Dancing Jam Jars

During the war I lived on Norwood Road, Evington, Leicester with my parents and my older sister, Sheila. My...

Colin Boot. Young at the Time of War, School Family, Education

Name: Mr Colin Boot Location of Story: Leicester, Walnut St Title: Young at the time of war, school,...

Leicester Memories

Having been born in 1934 I was very young at the start of ww2 My memories would start around 1941 My father...

Our Leicester

When he left the army after his injury he worked in engineering travelling the world... Then I started...

Childhood Memories

My Grandma took in an evacuee called Phyllis, which I remember. My father was in bomb disposal, he gave me...

Our Leicester

When he left the army after his injury he worked in engineering travelling the world... Then I started...