Stoke and Staffordshire

Fire watching for a shilling

The factory where I worked when I was sixteen,organised work on rotas and I had to learn how to use the...

My Dad and Mum: Joining the St John's Ambulance

Shortly after my Mum and Dad married, Dad has his call up papers and went for a medical in Hanley....

Childhood Memories of The War

Although we were a family of five, we took in four, persuading a lady across the road to take the other...

Party at the End

We enjoyed the war years as going into air raid shelters at Stanfield was considered to be fun as the...

American Party

During the second world war I was in the Penkhull homes... We were all well fed in Penkhull homes but we...

Pig Bins

Most houses during the war in the Stoke-on-Trent area were terraces with entries running behind the houses...

Every Little Helps

My friend Jean who was aged around 10 and I used to make cushion covers out of dishcloths... We received a...

Doodlebugs in the Meadow

I would be about 4 or 5 when I remember going to Bursley Grange Farm in Newtown. A team of local chaps...

Get in That Shelter !

We had an Anderson shelter in our back garden. I remember one night I just couldn't be bothered to go...

On the Buses: Memories of a Bus Conductor

I loved my job as a bus conductress on the local bus company the PMT....

Convoys on the A50

As a child I attended High Street School in Tunstall... The teacher would stand at the window and watch...

Bonfire at the Shardruck

They were all very merry and as I recall they seemed to be running under the bonfire....

Can we have an evacuee Mum?

Can we have an evacuee Mum. We got a London boy called Alfred Parrish and my gran had his sister Irene....

My Friend Ronald Reagan

I went to Buralem Palace to see a film with Ronald reagan. At the end RR came on the screen and asked...

Dangerous Work: Making Ammunition in Swynnerton

I was taken from working in the potts to ammunitions work at swynnerton....

Duke of Gloucester's Visit

The Duke of Gloucester came to Cheslyn Hay ,he met the headmaster Mr. Carter of Pinfold Lane school which...

Cannock Chase Spitfire Fund

Also I would like any information on a small bronze badge of a sptifire that was sold at the offices of the...

Gas masks

A particular thing that I remember about the mask was that the children's ones had a little orange flap...

Monkey run

A night out for me would be walking around Queen St, and High Lane on a Sunday nighton the "Monkey...

Fruity Loo Roll

I remember when fruit ,ornnges were wrapped in tissue paper. Mother used to send us over the Browns green...

Health: Swynnerton Munitions Workers

During the war my mum Florence worked at the Swynnerton munitions factory....

Coal Picking: In Burslem

My one outstanding memory from Worlds War 11 is picking coal from the local pits for our home coal fires....

Making Ends Meet

She'd buy a quarter of best and a quarter of the cheapest and mix them together. Her other trick was to...

Have you seen ?

We knocked on people's doors and I asked my Mum why he was black not which country he came from. A...

Too Early for School: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

I was at Moorland Road Junior School....

Spooner's dance Hall

Spooners was a dance hall in Silverdale - it was famous in North Staffs for having a sprung dance floor......