During the first couple of years of the War, German aeroplanes regularly passed over Amble, presumably on...
I shall always remember my 5th birthday,the first birthday that I had during the war as it falls on...
Too soon it was to multiply to a cacophony of noise when the blitz on London began: the river being a sure...
My uncle Fred and his wife Flo, and their son Roy, lived in the first house in Charlton Road, Kingswood, a...
As a young boy I used to go down to the docks with a young man called Adam Kevan who was a...
And my mother had had enough - she would not drag teh kids all over the place any more so down we...
By then the bombers were coming over day and night to bomb London... Our neighbourhood was hit regularly as...
I have many memories but the main one centres on the night when my father was badly injured with shrapnel...
After the terrific dust had settled the boy next door, Ron Coleman and I went out to rescue our neighbours...
If this happened while we were at school, our teacher Mrs Manktelow, would tell us to get under our desks,...
I was 13 in 1940, living with my parents and 2 sisters in a terrace house about 100 yards from the main...
I was born in East Ham in April 1940 at the home of my grandmother, and although my parents at that time...
If the siren went in the night our mum and dad would get us all out of bed and sit us on...
As I said the planes did come and bombs were dropped, I do remeber hearing a plane one night, one could...
Seeing the chaotic aftermath of the first big raid on Bristol we presented ourselves at the Auxiliary Fire...
On the 11th December 1940 we were all settled in the shelter when Mrs. Murphy knocked on the door saying...
Our house was on the direct flight route into central London and as soon as an air raid siren sounded, my...
My family consisted of my mother Kate, my brother Gerry and myself, Nita Schneiderman, as I was then known....
On the night of the raid, a warm night, we were sitting on the steps of our office on Kayes Walk, opposite...
Adam, my Carter friend, who stabled his horse in my grandmother's stable had not yet been called up for...
The bombs still fell on Bristol and I used the office phone to check the hospital was still standing before...
I had a job as a clerk at Fred Fishwick Ltd on Peter Street in Manchester - which was exactly opposite the...
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