Stoke and Staffordshire

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Leek

I lived in Leek, a small market town in North Staffordshire. Later in the war Leek had an air-raid, by...

Art Mashin' Yet? Childhood Memories of Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent

I was 12 year's old and remember the speech by Neville Chamberlain Mum and Dad were upset they kept the...

Collective Memories

Elsie was a Bevan Girl at 19 and worked in the Beven Huts at Bradeley. On the subject of food the audience...

Build Your Own Air Raid Shelter

My father was in the local police and my sister worked for the Min.of Food at King's Hall in Stoke and...

Memories of World War Two in Southall and Burton-on-Trent

This was Ascot Gardens Southall Middlesex where we were born.Our Dad slept in the house as there wasn't...

Child's Delight

Child's Delight...

Nursing Romance: In Stoke-on-Trent

His mum was a patient of mine at the City General and she asked i f one of us nurses would write...

Newburn and Vickers

I didn't as I was too busy watching its dog fight — the first German bomber was disabled and...

Mum Made Spitfire Bullets

Mum told me that when Woolwich was bombed the factory was moved the Swynnerton in Staffordshire. Mum worked...

Childs Eye View from Audley

Audley itself, as a small village was not a target of enemy bombers, but it was on the route to the Crewe...

A True War-Time Story

In 1936 my family consisting of mum, dad, Harold, Eric, Phyllis, Beryl and myself moved to a place called...

Memories of a Frightened Lad

After the V2 Doodlebugs started bombing London and our vicinity my father thought it was time to send me...

German Aircraft

At Endon there was about five anti-aircraft guns between the Black Horse pub at Endon and the left turn for...

Anzio Telegram

My strongest memory is of the day my aunt received a telegram concerning her eldest son who was killed at...

Swynnerton Telephonist

I got a job as a telephonist with Sir Alexander Gibbons Partners who were building the Swynnerton munitions...

Bombs and air raids in Stoke Newington

During one raid I remember a bomb dropped near the factory and the force of the blast blew all out windows...

Oakhill Memories

We queued regulary at the shops especially when Heinz salad cream came to the shops - we went to the...

My Time At Pipewood School - Girls Wartime Boarding School

I loved the games and lessons at Pipewood and became a great “shooter” for netball....

6 go to Tunstall: Evacuated from Portsmouth

We had come from Portsmouth where the factory behind the house had been bombed. Immediately afterwards...

The Banjo: Childhood Memories in Staffordshire

There was this funny burned smell everywhere and in one of the houses, clearly visible, was a charred and...

George David Alfred Lawton: Service in the Royal Artillery

He joined The Royal Artillery Field Corps,but I'm not sure where he was stationed.His two best friends...

WWII Memories

Some Welshmen came to work at the Barugh Chemical Works; they were experimenting on how to make solid fuel...

Food and Rations Reminiscences

We talked about offal and the various animal parts we ate including Chitterlings, Hodge, Udder, Pigs...

The Plane Without a Crew

The following day I was looking in the Daily Herald newspaper and column width was a map of britain with a...

Evacuation: Harry Carlo

Returned after 10 weeks — told it was because mother missed father but later discovered that 3...

A Wartime Childhood

Staffordshire County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. I remember when...