Stoke and Staffordshire

A Fighter Pilot

It all started at Uxbridge where I did my initial training to become an A.C.2 I then joined the RAF at...

My Life in a Nursery

After a few months I decided to take my training for the nursery nurse's diploma, which I was able to...

St George and St Martin Stories

Margaret left a note with the people at the YMCA in case Michael turned up — which he did .......

Roy Grayham-Wartime Memories

Things were getting pretty bad with the bombings so my mother decided to evacuate me again she sent me to...

Our Journey to Shanghai Via Avonmouth

When we reopened the huse, there was great excitement, especially when Mum looked in the oven to find Dad...

Family Values 2

Mrs. Newbold was at first glad to get another girl - popular with landladies who wanted an unpaid servant -...

A Liverpool Evacuee: Bombing of the Docks, Life in Millionaire's Home in Uttoxeter

A Liverpool Evacuee: Bombing of the Docks, Life in Millionaire's Home in Uttoxeter. Apart from my mum...

Evacuation: Margate to Rugeley, Staffs

The younger evacuees were attending the village school but, as we out numbered the local children, we older...

World War 2 Recollections

Their garden shed had a skull and crossbones cut from sheet lead pinned over the door, done by their son,...

The Scuttling of Ida

I lived in Ramsgate in Kent with my mother Ada, my father Sid and my younger brother and sister, Sid and...

War Memories of Tipton

By coincidence just at this time my family had moved from Walsall Wood to Tipton, in fact to a nearly new,...

The End of the War by Joan Stokoe

All the celebrations that were being planned to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II...

Missing believed Killed

Then, when I had reached the bottom of the stairs, there would be Lyn with perhaps a bunch of snowdrops or...

Not in a Cellar

Jimmy Rich or ‘Our Jim’, as he was affectionately known by his family, was proud of his home...

A Boy's Story

At some point I was sent across town to live with my dad's oldest brother Jack who was a coal miner and...

Wiggin Family at War

In May and June 1940 the great escape from the Dunkirk beaches was being carried out, and Sgt. Wiggin now a...

Fond Memories

I went to Glass Street School and remember finishing school at 4.30 and going to Burgess's in the...

Merchant Navy Comfort Service

Our Merchant seamen brought in the vital supplies and food without which our country would, undoubtedly...

Recollections of an Evacuee 1940 to 1942: Colchester to Staffordshire

The group that my sister Iris and self were placed in was in the charge of a man whose official title was...

Dickie Dickie Shiney Light

It was suppled by Bents Brewery in Stone and of course, loads of Yanks based at the aerodrome used the pub....

Doris's Story: In the Auxilliary Fire Service

We marched as a group to the station and transported to Barry Dock... While at Barry we were woken in the...

A Letter Full of Tears

Mrs. Joan Twyman is the wife of a previous Mayor of Margate and Chairman of the Local Council. On the day...

Great Moor Library in the Second World War by Elsie Howard (Nee Walker)

Great Moor Library in the Second World War – by Elsie Howard....

My Memories of the Second World War: Work in a Costing Office

One day when I was working in the office I suddenly heard a terrific noise, everyone jumped up thinking we...

Escape Into The WAAF's

Spying a WAAF recruiting poster behind her left ear I promptly declared undying love of the RAF. I was to...

Blitz on Coventry and Birmingham

Our village was in the centre of a triangle with Wolverhampton, Coventry and Birmingham at the three...