We were told of the bomb that fell close to the Club House of Denton Golf Club....
It turned out that, to keep themselves occupied, someone had taken a dart board down in to the cellar and...
We used to watch the German bombers come in across the sea, because Dunstanborough Castle was a landmark....
One of her colleagues, a Jamaican nurse called Diana, offered to swap shifts with her... By 1946 my mother...
I was 9 and my brother was 13 and we wanted it because it was souvenirs and shiny... You could see the...
During the period that the Germans were bombing Liverpool, we local people at Acrefair 鈥 some 20 to...
One night during heavy bombing I was pushed under the kitchen table with my Mother and a lady I called...
My first childhood memory, aged 4, in 1940 is of sitting on a bunk in a rather damp cellar under my...
I was a small child during the Second World War and lived on Queens Drive, West Derby, Liverpool... I...
I was a student nurse at Sefton General Hospital, Smithdown Rd, Liverpool, during the May Blitz of 1941....
During the blitzes on Bristol we spent the night from dusk to dawn in our Anderson shelter at the bottom of...
Aunt Mary now in her late eighties got herself into a bit of trouble with the law during the blackout. A...
The Education Department decided to send all the pupils from our ed Protestant school to a local Catholic...
My father, James Millar, was employed at the John Kelly coal yards in Belfast docks all of his working...
We were sheltering in the crypt of a church in Southwark at the time.The sirens had gone off at about 6pm...
The small bombs would drop in sixes. The rest of the family were sheltered in the Morrison Shelter whilst...
One night we were home when we heard Dublin was bombed... They thought they dropped the bombs in the water...
Living in Hendon, aged 5, I was among the second wave of North London evacuees due to the V rocket menace....
They spent the entire next day sieving every bit of rubble into a brick compound that they'd built in...
He then realised he had no pants on and was still very 'green'. His Uncle Peter saw how...
Christmas 1940- it was my first introduction to manchester... I was brought into Manchester on Christmas...
My mother was 40 years older than me and she recounted stories of my grandfather being straffed by a...
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