We were known in the trade as 鈥淪hipping and Forwarding Agents鈥, renting warehouses in Hull,...
Two of my ancestors were married in St Dunstans Church, Stepney in 1796 and two others in St Mary...
Nottingham was not really bombed until May 1941, and it was the practice in the Smith household that you...
The bombs fell night after night and while the Germans were mainly out to hit businesses this made living...
The night Avonmouth Docks was bombed, a friend and I had gone o a village hop at Abbots Leigh, right...
My father and my older brothers were all in reserved occupations working for the Manchester Ship Canal...
But I can remember the next morning, everybody going down Springfield Avenue to find out where exactly the...
This service was initially based at builders yards in the area, using lorries towing a Coventry Climax...
We girls would listen for when the siren went, as you heard the guns sounding up from the Thames Estuary to...
On 16th November 1940, the night immediately following the famous Coventry raid, I was blown out of bed by...
We made our way down the garden to the Anderson Shelter, a corrugated iron construction half-buried and...
German planes flying in from Denmark & Norway could also find Hull easily by day. They whistled while...
No bombs were falling on Birmingham, but the bombers were obviously passing over the city, and the...
Now, the finish of the affair was that you, the bodies were all finished down at the, most of the...
But as the blitz got worse Mum's sisters Audrey and 鈥楪lad鈥 and toddler Adrienne Ames would...
So my Father took half of the children to Northam Road School shelter, whilst my Mother, younger Sister and...
Top of Dawson St, Anandale St, Carlisle Street, Cranborne Circus, Lincoln Avenue, bombs that were aimed for...
On the evening of 14 November 1940 my uncle Eric Aston and my grandfather Alfred stood on the back step of...
One activity for us children was to collect any metal objects that people did not want such as old...
A furious but quite unharmed Melvyn came running towards Inga with evil intent written all over her face....
This was the big one which Sheffield had been waiting for; much of the steel for the armaments was made...
Things were getting pretty bad with the bombings so my mother decided to evacuate me again she sent me to...
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