When my Father rejoined us across the road, my Mother realised she had left her false teeth in our gas...
I can remember my parents talking about a radio warning from ‘Lord haw haw’, warning people...
We would climb over the wall adjoining our garden by clambering over the school toilet wall and dropping...
Dad said it was not the first target for the German Bombers, they would go to Liverpool Docks, Manchester...
The smell of air bourn soot, the crunch of broken glass underfoot and net curtains hanging out over window...
Bombing of Wallasey 1941-42...
When the bomb dropped, the blast took off the door to the shelter, and all the glass, wood and rubble from...
I lived in a big Victorian house in London. when the raids started in September 1940 they continued non...
By September 1939 we'd moved to Cholton on Medlock in Manchester and me dad used to work in a big...
We left the church for Laces Photographic Studio in Small Heath to have our wedding photos taken... We...
For a time during the war my parents Winnie and Vernon Salter rented an upstairs flat at 94 Mainstone...
At the time I was 17 an engineering apprentice at Alfred Herberts the machine tool factory in the Foleshill...
Bombs landed right in this area---alongside the power station in Bank Street, Clayton... The fathers never...
I was a 17 year old RAF apprentice spending my Christmas leave with my Aunt, who was my guardian, and her...
There were eight of us in the house, my brother suffered a broken leg and Grandmother was taken to hospital...
In April 1941 three houses just a few yards behind our house in Wooler Avenue received a direct hit and the...
We used to , as children, go out looking for incendiary bombs — a friend of mine Arthur took a shell...
The first raid of the night saw incendiary bombs set the city ablaze... We covered under blankets as each...
I went to a cinema on the Oldpark Road called the Park Cinema with a girl called Peggy Walker. Peggy...
The following is an account of vera cook: wrote by Nathan carpenter. She was in the war at the age of 32,...
My uncle, who was living with us at the time, said he could see a parachute and I thought ‘could the...
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