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My Great Adventure

Some old lady there proudly displayed a piece of Zeppelin that she had collected in World War I. Everyone...

A school boy in London blitz Part one

Needless to say the whole family was caught up in the atmosphere of the wedding, which would be a highlight...

'Snake Hips' Johnson's last show

One morning a bomb dropped about forty yards away from us in Brewer Street, near the corner of Rupert...

Childhood Memories I

I suppose the German aircrews, who had dropped the bombs had also been doing the same, going about their...

Interview with Hilda Parkes

I'd been with a friend to my auntie's in Pendleton and we'd had our tea there; then we went...

Dog fight

We had an Anderson Shelter, which went deep into the earth, but inside, although a bit smelly we had...

Stafford Bombed

Afterwards several versions of the story circulated; how many bombs of different kinds there had been and...

A Boy's War

Hastings and St. Leonards did not in the 2nd world war suffer from heavy concentrated bombing as that of...

An Indomitable People (Wrenbury Remembers P.55)

The great bombing attack on London was soon nicknamed "The Blitz" after the German title for their...

Rising From the Ruins

Situated between Roscoe Street to the north and Victoria Dock Road to the South, and laid out on garden...

Memories from Coventry

My dad's best friend who lived some doors away came over and said, 鈥楥ome on Albert, get a shovel,...

Family life in an air-raid

Occasionally we slept upstairs and would only go down the cellar if the sirens sounded in the evening of...

Rude Awakening

He used to do his bit fire-watching instead, as part of the wartime air-raid precautions. One particular...

Hair-raising times for a Gloster factory maintenance electrician

In early 1940 we had the first bombs fall on Gloucester and one fell on Napier Street which was about 100...

The Night the City Burned

I was aged 17 and had joined the Home Guard, a very junior member of 鈥淒ads Army鈥�, I was a P.O....

Memories of the War Years at Hellfire Corner 1938-1945*; *pictures included

In September 1938, Hitler signed the Munich Agreement with the then Prime Minister of Great Britain,...

Interview with Albert Pope

When it was the Christmas blitz, along with my family, we went to the Sunday evening service at the Salford...

Memories of a 12 year old

A stop had been put on all river traffic, but, one of the large Hull tugs, 鈥淲elshman鈥�, was...

Start of WW2

Messages were coming in from other exchanges and I heard worrying news about heavy bombing in East Ham, my...

Bombed Out

At that time, my Father, Thomas Reynolds, was away from the house on fire watching duties, so the family...

Mum's War

They moved around the country, London, Plymouth and Greenock were the places that I remember from Mum's...

The Bombings Still Continued

It seems that a string of bombs had landed along Clissold Passage, Roseberry Street and Clissold Street and...

Battle of Britain from my dormitory; Historic buildings saved; Home Guard.

At that time we didn't go down to the shelters and I remember lying in bed in my dormitory, in Oxford,...

Battle of Britain from the dormitory; Home Guard; Historic buildings saved.

At that time we didn't go down to the shelters and I remember lying in bed in my dormitory, in Oxford,...

The 'Baby' Blitz

Our cousins Olive, Joyce and baby Ronald were huddled with their mum, Uncle Mac was working at Fraser and...

The 'Baby' Blitz

Our cousins Olive, Joyce and baby Ronald were huddled with their mum, Uncle Mac was working at Fraser and...