The many thousands of incendiary bombs released over Manchester on the Sunday night caused the biggest...
I lived at 12 Clara Street , Stoke , Coventry , with my mother , brothers Alf , Charlie and Len and...
London in Wartime: ARP Work, Blitz, Battle of Britain, Digging for Victory - and Celebrations. Until D-Day...
The terrible war in France, Belgium and Holland, with the German Panzer Divisions racing through the top...
I seem to remember the lack of butter and margarine most of all and I recall, when on one occasion having...
Ron was fully occupied with his army training at Catterick and also taking part in the sports programme,...
My first real war memory was being piled into our 1927 Austin 7 on the evening of September 1st.1939 and...
She was the only member of the family who never married and nurtured a lifelong interest in agriculture and...
Soon came upon our ears the sound that we learned to dread, the characteristic throbbing of aircraft...
Liverpool police truncheons were commonly two-and-a-half feet long, made of hard wood with a leather thong...
If Dad and I had been in a different type of work we could have 'evacuated' ourselves, Mum and the...
We all helped each other to cope in the best way we could and when our war with Europe was won in...
In the glass lean-to, which was in the garden directly below my bedroom window, a new...
The part which really got to him was that German paratroopers were going to land on Stag Hill and take...
The main road gave us a choice-turn west toward Norwich or east toward Lowestoft. The only other direction...
Preparations included the issue of gasmasks; making black-out blinds; taping-up the window panes; eldest...
The first bombs I shall never forget the first bombs to be dropped on Coventry. As Coventry began to...
"It was still empty and we had six staff and they said the youngest of the staff would go to other...
A few days after we settled into Stepps Cottage and mum had collected Doreen, George and Lily from their...
The bullring was a very special place with a special atmosphere of its own which was lost for ever, out...
One of our friends from Dumfries, Tom, was now in the RAF and stationed nearby so when my godfather's...
Anyway, Grandad decided that Mum and I should leave London and go to Alderminster to escape the bombs. I...