South East Wales

Delivering messages

She volunteered and remembers taking her messages from the Welsh-speaking Tabernacle Chapel to the Home...

Edgar's Story

In mid-June 1940 I was crouching over a Chemistry paper during the School Certificate examination, the...

Olive's Story

I was in the ATS, stationed at Penarth. I worked on the ackack batteries in the territorial unit....

Normality in adversity: Sitting for a Music Exam in Barry

On the day of the examination, a Messerschmitt aircraft flew over the town to bomb and straff the docks.The...

Collision of Two Spitfires over Mountpleasant

I was around about 10 or 12 years of age and I remember someone telling me that two Spitfires collided near...

Memory of the Blackout

Someone came knocking on the door to say she had left the lights on - it was during the blackout —...

A Day Out

As the plane approached I could see the swastika....

Returning to Usk Pt2

These are extracts from the memoirs of Ronald Dutt transcribed for the site, with his permission, by Judith...

Mary Wilsher's Story

Mary Wilsher was a tractor driver based Mount Ballan, where there were 70 Land Girls. I met my husband at...

The Bomb drops in Pwlltrap / Y BOM YN SYRTHIO YM MHWLLTRAP.

The Bomb drops in Pwlltrap / Y BOM YN SYRTHIO YM MHWLLTRAP. Roedd yr Almaenwyr eisiau bomio Pentywyn.Dyma...

Don Seager

I cannot remember seeing so many Chepstow folk lining the streets clapping and cheering as we marched to...

Schools in Chepstow

They were there when I arrived and by the time I moved to Llangwm school they had more or less become...

Schools in Chepstow

They were there when I arrived and by the time I moved to Llangwm school they had more or less become...

Tom Hatton - Photo.

Tom Hatton - Photo. Tom Hatton aged 27, taken on return from the desert....