My Dad, still not opening the door, shouted back, "What's the matter". The voice outside...
When the first wave of bombs droned in each evening, my grandmother would announce ' the bing boys are...
I attended Somerset Place Infants School, where i stayed until eleven years old, after taking the exam I...
The air-raid warning would sound; some German aircraft would come in and drop their bombs, whilst a second...
As I mentioned earlier we had a map on our living room wall, this map was to depict the course of the...
Shortly after dark the air-raid sirens sounded again, my dad again woke me up and took me downstairs but...
Failing to destroy the R.A.F., to intimidate the Royal Navy, or subdue the British people by bombing,...
Shortly after dark the air-raid siren sounded again, my dad again woke me up and took me downstairs but...
My father worked in an foundry, making railway wagon wheels at Samuel Osborne's, down Penistone Road in...
I have read somewhere that the first bombs dropped in the Liverpool area fell in the Prenton district of...
During raids he would check the garden for incendiary bombs and return inside with the inimitable remark,...
During raids he would check the garden for incendiary bombs and return inside with the inimitable remark,...
On February 19th Mum was at the Carlton Cinema, where Dad was manager, and Daphne and I were at home when...
The sky was very overcast but in a wispy gap in the cloud, I spotted a Heinkel He 111, one of the...
The bombers were often preceded by the German fighters shooting down the barrage balloons, which protected...
Dad was the Church of Scotland minister of Gamrie Parish. Dad had the headset on when, for some strange...
Later on during the war, I was lucky to see some relics from the crashed bombers, and one of the items was...
An ambulance and one green fire tender of the Auxiliary Fire Service, and a big van with ‘LIGHT...
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The Western National Bus Service from Elburton to Plymouth was about an hourly service with a driver and...
We had not been back in London less than six weeks when the air raids started, but the biggest surprise was...
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