Your Wartime Memories

In the country
After our home was destroyed in the bombing during the ‘Blitz’ we were re-housed not far away, unfortunately that house was also put to waste when it was hit by incendiary bombs and burned down.

My Dad arranged for our family to move in with his mother who lived in a small ‘country town’ in Yorkshire, he was obviously anxious about our safety after the second time we were made homeless.
I had never really been in the countryside apart from a ‘picnic’ with our school.
The farms and woods were very pleasant and I was in my element being somewhere away from having to spend nights sleeping in an air-raid shelter.

I started going to the local school and made lots of new friends, they thought I was a bit ‘posh’ because of my Platting accent, it was during the harvest and we helped to lift the potato crops as part of our contribution to the war effort.
E Leasley