Grown ups lay on the van floor and with the tailboard up and curtains drawn across, it was a dark snuffly...
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Dad relates these events mostly calmly but Mum told em that he sometimes came home very upset, exhorting...
I left Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury in 1938 at the age of 18 to become an apprentice in the...
It was certainly frightening to hear the German planes on their many flights to bomb Bristol. Whilst I did...
We heard about the German bombers coming over and bombing London and so on and Coventry... The German...
The young boy was leaning out of the window, one hand gripping the sill, the other over the man's...
When in 1938 the board of the printing firm where I worked became so apprehensive about the effects of...
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On the night we were bombed out, the drone of the bombers flying overhead was the only intrusion, seeming...
There was bombing over London, and Aunty Glad saw a Jerry bomber go down which crashed at Victoria Station....
Both bus depots in Plymouth - Milehouse Corporation Depot and the Western National depot at Laira Bridge -...
I believe the police and wardens checked every house and the area was cleared to await the bomb disposal...
It's surprising that there was feeling against nurses who were training in top London hospitals amongst...
The first daylight raid on London took place on 2nd and 3rd July 1940, but at the same time the RAF hit...
There was only 3 occasions in my memory when the Germans bombed Walkden. This particular night the Germans...
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