About twenty years later I was in a pub in north London I was telling that tale when an unknown, to me,...
I have got an idea we had something to eat and drink, but the trouble was every time a biggish bomb landed,...
Then we got a taxi to Chalfont St. Peter, and it was a friend of Ken's. Joan, dad, mum spaniel, Ken and...
In Southampton, from the fire escape stairs at the back of the hotel I watched planes attack the...
Dennis in the darkness grabbing the bundle but loosing sight of Lottie who ran out of the front door...
We wondered if my father was all right and then a voice came through the letterbox, it was one of his...
He had come from London and started an upholstery factory next door to where we lived and manufactured...
Mum and Dad thought we'd get a respite as so far, they'd escaped being bombed on that side of...
I was fortunate enough to pass the Scholarship, which I sat in about June, 1939 and I was then able to...
However dad saw Mrs Ord on her step and went to talk to her and I stayed on our back yard step....
August 1940 and it was just after that the heavy bombing of London began, we used to go out to the cinema...
The whole village and surrounding farmlands were owned by the Bath dynasty, their representative was Lady...
By the time we got to the top of Bevercotes Road there was little sign of any bomb damage and at Firth...
My most vivid memories were two particular ones, the 12th and 15th of December 1940,the nights of Sheffield...
But this night in particular, two of us who stayed in 41 Belville Street ran down to the back green because...
Gib had to get up to move the mattress so that he could edge his way into the scullery to procure milk...
In the first year of the war, my school was ‘Bombed out’ and so I spent most of my time playing...
Betty and Dorothy and another friend were there and three pals of Norman's, his best man was Les Taylor...
As this was the site of one of earliest V1 bombs it was visited by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank...
His round was in the better part of Fulham where there were much bigger houses and the people had more...
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