1 A photographic record was made of the Nissen hut, which was possibly associated with the former WWII airfield, RAF Warwick. The Nissen hut was 8m long and 5m ...
Nissen Hut possibly associated with the former WWII airfield, RAF Warwick. The site is located at Old Tree Nursery, Stratford Road, Longbridge
If you haven’t heard of the British Welcome Club in Leamington Spa, you wouldn’t be the only one. In fact, search the internet for British Welcome Clubs in general and ...
When I was around two years old a bomb was dropped in the back garden. Oddly and luckily, it didn’t destroy the house at all. However, it did move the ...
When I was 13 years old, the Second World War began and I was evacuated. From Birmingham St Andrews, I was sent to Stratford upon Avon on Friday – two ...
In 1939 when the war was announced, I was 18 years old. I was stood on the side of the road next to the cinema waiting for my mum to ...
(Continued from part four)
In 1939 came the second world war. Jimmy was very busy taking workers to AP (Lockeed), Flavel’s, Tachbrook Aero, Ford’s and other factories. One day, two gunners came ...
The war left a high level of tension in Stratford, with a lot of people suffering with nerves and anxiety affecting many families in town. To add to this there ...
Demand for accommodation in Alcester area was particularly pressing as the Maudslay Motor Company transferred virtually all of its production operations from Coventry to a “shadow factory” at Great Alne ...
Germans bombs rained down and many homes and businesses were flattened, here is one such business owner explaining why rent has not been paid.
10-12 Stratford Street Nuneaton
Dear Sir, I have ...
On Friday June 11th 1948 the Nuneaton Observer reported on the grandiose visit by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, to unveil the new inscription on the Riversley Park ...
At the time of writing, Southam’s Market Hill and High Street is having its appearance dramatically changed. The town centre ‘regeneration’ project is under way, and the new Tithe Lodge ...
Two of the collections available at the Warwickshire County Record Office relate to a mother and son and the impact that World War II had upon their lives.
Beatrice Golby
CR 4479 ...
More extracts from Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
‘During the war…the ‘black market’ and the racketeers who ran it, in big towns and cities, were known as spivs. Eathorpe was ...
Continuing Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
Land army girls worked on the farms alongside the prisoners and farm hands. They were billeted in a large detached house, opposite the village ...
Continuing Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1
‘My move to Princethorpe village school was arranged by Mrs Reeve of the Poplars Farm, Eathorpe. She was an exceptional lady who was very ...
While on a trip to photograph the windmill at Napton on the Hill, I came across a commemorative plaque at the side of the lane about 150 metres from the ...
Continuing Julie Barnett’s recollections of her wartime childhood, from Warwickshire County Record Office ref. CR 3913/1.
The large Convent
‘The Benedictine Priory, which was situated on a hill outside the village, was ...
Continuing Julie Barnett’s account of her childhood from Warwickshire County Record Office ref. CR 3913/1.
‘My next school was at Princethorpe, about two miles from Eathorpe. In my childhood, Princethorpe was ...
Continuing the extracts from Julie Barnett’s record of her childhood (Warwickshire County Record Office CR 3913/1).
‘The most frightening moment in the war was being machine gunned by a German plane. ...
Another extract from Julie Barnett’s childhood memories (Warwickshire County Record Office CR 3913/1)
‘One day we were in the playground ‘Mr Helm…helped the man into the school where he was given ...
To continue Julie’s memoirs (extracts from Warwickshire County Record Office CR 3913/1): her family moved to Eathorpe to escape the Coventry blitz. ‘It was only when we went to Eathorpe ...
Julie Barnett wrote a vivid account of her wartime childhood that has been deposited at the Warwickshire County Record Office (Ref. CR 3913/1). The following is the first of a series of ...
Prisoner of War Letter dated 1942 from Mr R Cross to his family in Nuneaton. This has been donated to Nuneaton Memories for safe keeping. Hope all can read this
