oshaugh Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 The past year has made me think about why we are all here and it's all the old people walking around, there everyday lives, kids being rude, it's so maddening to think that what they did for our country is un recognised and i want to write about what male and female went through, so i'd love to hear from people preferably who lived it or if you can put me in touch with the people who did THANKYOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 will this thread be of any help? http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=164030 or maybe this one http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=102598 what about http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61465&highlight=blitz will that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Try this, there should be plenty to go at, including contributions from Sheffielders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyer Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 running away from Fullwood home's,our bigest problem was geting something to eat,no deed was too low for us, from scrounging around the anderson's or bombed home's looking for food.We had two ways of getting money 1 was to ask for lost tram fare, aways good for a little, And 2 & i still cringe steal the flowers off the grave's & sell them at the front gate ,Iknow i sold the same bunch twice more than once.With cash in hand we could often get some shop keeper to give us a loaf of bread(mum will bring the coupons around Later) apple's didn't need coupons, anything to survive a few more days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janner Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I used to live on Hatfieldhouse Lane, on one ocassion a land mine ( a bomb attached to a parachute and arranged to explode in the air, giving a wider area of blast damage) went of above the Flower estate .The bombed out people were passing our house with what remained of their belongings in prams & hand carts. I remember my mother was upset to see these poor people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I used to live on Hatfieldhouse Lane, on one ocassion a land mine ( a bomb attached to a parachute and arranged to explode in the air, giving a wider area of blast damage) went of above the Flower estate .The bombed out people were passing our house with what remained of their belongings in prams & hand carts. I remember my mother was upset to see these poor people.I lived on Shiregreen Lane at the time of that land mine event, only the ESC (English Steel Corperation)sports ground stood between us and the Flower Estate..The blast took out all our back windows. I was only two years old at the time but my Mum told me all about it many times later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floridablade Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 The blitz was on December the 13th, thursday night and also sunday the 16th I think 1941 which of course is 65 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 The blitz was on December the 13th, thursday night and also sunday the 16th I think 1941 which of course is 65 years ago.The first blitz was Thursday, December 12th 1940, followed by another one on the following Sunday. During the Thursday raid much of the city centre was destroyed, especially the Moor. My older brother was in the thick of it as a boy scout running messages to civil defence posts On the Sunday night we were sitting in our house with some friends playing cards, when my brother said he could hear aircraft,just as the sirens went off. Five minutes later we ruxshed under the stairs as a stick of bombs fell. The last one destroyed our house with us in it. We had to dig ourselves out and run across the street to Tinsley school which was then set on fire by incendiary bombs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janner Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Further to the war stories, we had a line of incendary bombs dropped along Hatfield House Lane, fotunately they all landed in the gardens. People were dashing all over the place putting them out.We were issued with stirrup pumps, we kids were expected to do the pumping. The Germans then invented an exploding incendary, the person at the nozzle end was advised to take cover behind a chair or similar.It was'nt till much later I realised we pumping kids were standing upright 6ft from the nozzle end.Fotunately , for me & my mates, we did'nt have any exploding incendaries to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janner Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Further to the war stories, we had a line of incendary bombs dropped along Hatfield House Lane, fotunately they all landed in the gardens. People were dashing all over the place putting them out.We were issued with stirrup pumps, we kids were expected to do the pumping. The Germans then invented an exploding incendary, the person at the nozzle end was advised to take cover behind a chair or similar.It was'nt till much later we pumping kids were standing upright about 6ft from the nozzle.Fortunately for me & my mates we did'nt get any exploding ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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