When the bombing started in earnest we didnt know which shelter had been allocated to us and the night they...
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A goods train was stationary only yards away from where a bomb had landed leaving a signal at a crazy...
My elder brother Frank was home from his job at Newton's factory and had closed the back door after the...
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We went into the coal place under the cellar stairs, and stayed there in the dark with the coal until the...
His parents, my mother's widowed father who was the vicar of a city-centre parish, and various of my...
Many was the time Uncle Jack told me he could have been the richest man in Sheffield, but then he could...
When I got married during 1942, friends lent me some clothing coupons, and I managed to obtain enough to...
I was on the 6am to 2pm shift that day, doing telephone operator duties with the National Fire Service A...
Lots of us girls were working in various departments of the Bristol Aeroplane Company in Rodney Works, on...
I was 18 and was working at W T Flathers, Sheffield Road, Tinsley during 1940 when, I think, probably the...
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I was born in a small Warwickshire village called Ashorne, south of Leamington Spa in 1932 ,my father...
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I can't move鈥 鈥淒on't worry鈥, he said; as he carefully covered her with a blanket,...
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