Betty Pearce was born in 1926, her full name is Eunice Elizabeth Pearce, whilst generally known as Betty...
In April 1945 we sailed to the Far East through the Mediterranean and up the Suez canal until we came to a...
Our family comprised my mother, Emily, my sisters,Renee and Barbara and my younger brother, David. My...
During the 1940 Manchester Air Raid Joan worked at Metro Vics in Trafford Park Manchester, once home from...
Dad had gone to bed as usual, he never stayed up late like mam and myself. The realisation tht we has been...
That was the land mine that dropped on the Cathedral, and the first crash was another mine that dropped on...
Another Friday night in Swansea, my mother and I went down the hill on the little red bus to a dance in...
I still have vivid memories of the "Blitz" on Coventryin November 1940, as during each air-raid...
The Hornchurch spitfires were rumoured to be underground. Most 9 year olds believed that spitfires circled...
I have seen pictures of a particularly nasty incident when a flying bomb hit a bus outside the old Adastral...
But whenever the siren went, my mother would herd us all into our home made dugout shelter in the garden...
Between me sleeping through separate blitzes and being excited out of bed by a maverick buzz bomb in very...
Because she disliked using the small air raid shelter in the garden Jean usually hid in the cellar or under...
First of all Friday evening a bomb dropped on the Elephant, Rockingham Court got most of it but haven't...
We lived in Cleves Road named after one of Henry VIII's wives as were all the roads around us, e.g....
Another Sunday, I don't remember the date, but it must have been in 1940, I was going to Chatham to see...
Stone steps led down from the back door into a yard with an outside lavatory and a coal house... I remember...
This continued down Cricket Inn Road and Maltravis Road by which time the bombs were nearer to me... I made...
We saw less of the war than our families in South Wales and Bristol who were suffering from air raids most...
Even there I could not escape the bombs because one morning Mick and I woke up to see the ceiling was...
However Streatham and Croydon began to suffer many hits as the rockets fell short of the targets of central...
My next terrifying experience was in 1941 when 1000 incendiary bombs were dropped on Plymouth, the...
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