I was five years old at the onset of WW2, we lived at that time in the industrial part of Liverpool...
My sister Lilian and her close friend Annie Masters had gone to Hope Street night school to study...
My bus was standing in the station and as were saying our goodbyes the air raid sirens started to sound....
We went into the pantry under the stairs when air raids sirens went, one night we heard a whistle and a...
While waiting in the blackout dark kitchen the only light came from inside the gas oven where there was a...
I was one of the last women during the war to come out of the Dockyard, I was going around with a...
I worked in Greengate, Broughton, making and sewing anti-gas capes for the army personnel... Manchester was...
We were met but a wall of flame as a stick of incenderies had fallen immediately outside our house.Mother...
One night in May 1941, Nottingham was very heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe.The Church of St.Christopher...
My mother and I just ran to Petherton Road Infants School, where there was a brick shelter, dropping to the...
Many sleepless nights were spent in the Anderson Shelter erected at the loss of our treasured rockery in...
I was 11 years of age when war was declared. and as my father was an officer in the Southgate Fire Brigade...
In early nineteen forty-four, Sleeping on the upstairs floor, By night, as sirens wail, we leap, From warm...
My Uncle Bert was a gas fitter during the war and as such was in a reserved occupation and not allowed to...
My first real memory was scouring the fields at Newton St. Loe — where a German Bomber had dropped...
Sunday mornings going to buy my sweets with my dad with a book,'the Ration Book' and as we walked...
The first harrowing experience I had was two German parachutists banging the door where I was staying in an...
At the age of 13, I lived on outskirts of London on the borders of Kent, and the German bombers would...
I was in digs in a house on Donegal Pass, quite opposite the Police Station... And it was a shelter about...
Two bombers came up the River Exe very low and dropped bombs in the centre of Exeter. The middle of Exeter...
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