With the ferocity of the London Blitz, my grandmother and her children were evacuated to the West Midlands,...
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Being small, we used to be able to get into these very hot coal- burning boilers, into the wings and places...
Joanne Dorrington-How Will Father Christmas Find Us. We stayed with friend s from Flixton over Christmas,...
My worst memory is of the night the Germans flew over Edinburgh to bomb Glasgow... One old fellow from one...
It burned for almost a week and at night the village was illuminated and it was a beacon for the night...
I was working at a tin box factory, for the first few months there was nothing, things went on as usual...
September 1st 1939 today only one school was open in our area, my name is Doreen just 13 – brothers...
I was walking home when the air-raid sirens went at 7pm, I heard the planes overhead and they dropped...
Because London was beginning to be bombed, they moved us down there. We realized a German bomb had come...
The Germans had firstly bombed the water mains and then sent in the planes with incendiary bombs, althought...
The further east as we walked damage seemed to be heavier - the sugar house, as I have already mentioned,...
My father was a dhobi man - a washerman - and the family laundry - Wrigley's - was doing well enough to...
One day my friend and I followed the fire engines from Hammersmith to London Bridge were we watched the...
Birmingham- my home, was an obvious target for German Bombers, although after all these years it seems...
The German Fighter Bombers were at roof top height, we just caught a glimpse of them, and in front of our...
We lived in Sheffield — Pitts Moor — and myself and 2 brothers were sent to Watton, in...
Then in came the Air Raid Policeand told us that everyone had to evacuate the shelter as a bomb had landed...
Having arrived at the District General Hospital, West Bromwich from Ireland on 30th June 1940, I was very...
I was actually born in Bath in Somerset.When I was two weeks old mother brought me home to Lewisham to my...
After boarding up the windows and making the front door safe, we piled into the car with a few spare...
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