Explosions seemed to get louder and louder. The penultimate bomb shook the house to is foundations, all the...
My mother, Gertrude Churchward, had put a cushion on the floor of a low wall cupboard for our dog...
I used to wear my hair in a bun tied with black ribbon, and one Squadron Leader, used to get close to...
The dinner was ending, and I was ready for the best part, to pick the meat off the bone... We were lucky...
The dinner was ending, and I was ready for the best part, to pick the meat off the bone... We were lucky...
Eventually my parents received a letter from the management to say that all factory employees were being...
On Sunday morning the third day of September 1939, my sister and I, she nine years of age, I all of...
As I mentioned, my dad was a police war reserve, and he went into a burning church in Albert Road, rescued...
Mum told us to sit still on a little wooden bunk and she lit Kelly Lanterns about 6" high, filled with...
After half-filling it with water, Dad stood in the bath, pumping like fury, as I directed the jet and spray...
We all threw ourselves to the ground, but one of the girls, she came from Lancashire, and she threw her...
In the space of 250 yards six bombs were dropped, the first one fell into a garage, and the second to a...
The air-raid sirens sounded so my parents and I proceeded to our garden shelter, namely a brick and...
My grandfather John Nicholson invented and patented the Norsen fire hose reel which was used during and...
We were quite used to scampering into our Anderson shelter in the front garden when the bombs started to...
Needless to say, an air raid warden, who actually lived next door, had noticed our predicament, and we were...
When my dad was on this shift my brother and I slept on a bed settee in the lounge and mam rested...
Reaching Barras Green I had to make a detour up Coventry Street because there was an unexploded Land Mine...
In 1941 Edith was emplyed in the Royal Naval Dockyard, Devonport, Plymouth and started work in the Electric...
As I got off my bicycle to admire this view, sirens wailed their air raid warning, and in the skies shortly...
Since Burton Oak was located outside London, we were rarely air bombed. Subsequently, as the war progressed...
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