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As Black as Coal

Exeter Blitz

My mother made the decision to go to her elder sister Ellen who ran the rather large and impressive Hotel...

Wartime Memories

In 1947, wood was still scarce, and Doreen's dad chopped up all the tables and chairs to make a fire...

Finishing school at the break of war

Mrs Hallam was 15 at the outbreak of war and the school she was at was being evacuated and she decided to...

My Mother鈥檚 Teeth

We drank the wine and were feeling quite mellow when my mother decided she wanted to use the toilet, so in...

My Air Raid

My father was serving with the RAF in Egypt and I was staying with my mother and 2 sisters at my...

Sleeping Through the Blitz

During the blitz me and a man from the navy found ourselves taking local kids to shelter in the BTH. I fell...

Another memory of Derrick from the Blitz.

My mum went out into the Hall at about 8p.m and she shouted for us to come and have a look at...

The Night We Were Forgotten

Sheffield was heavily bombed... We found out later that everyone had been evacuated in the night because of...

A good soaking

"While my Father was in Burma we had moved to Okehampton, in Devon, where he thought we should be safe...

Telephonists at Chapel Street Salford

Joan Marsland was a GPO telephonist at Telephone House, Chapel Street in Salford... One of the telephonists...

V1

My aunt got bits of glass stuck in her, and she still shows me the scars today, they are all over her...

The War Years

Dad said it was"the safe'ist place" .when they were bombing... Mom to dad "YOUR NOT GOING...

The Princess in Flames

He had gone to a cinema in Leicester called the Princess Cinema... Neville went back to a bridge called...

BOMBING OF BATH

My sister Patsy and I frequently stood on our high garden wall in the late evening, watching planes flying...

When the Bombs Fell

I was born in Dundee in 1922 and was therefore about 17 at the start of the war.I worked in the jute...

A journey by ambulance

The hospital was in the centre of Birmingham so was vulnerable to bomb attacks therefore it was necessary...

We All Must be Bloody Mad!

During the summer of 1940, just after my father, Peter Wright, had left for work at the nearby Kemble...

Walking through the Blitz

I had to get to work at CWS in Balloon St. but when I set off the trams had stopped so I...

War Time Memories

I remember...... vapour trails in the sky over Salford. land army girls digging on Duchy road running to an...

All Our Worldly Goods.

We were living in Brighton at the outbreak of WW2.My Father's Regiment, a Royal Artillery Mobile...

the only tear

The story began when the coventry fire station that he was based at got an job in bedworth, he told me that...

The Doodlebug Story

I remember very well the first night that Hitler sent his Doodlebugs over to bomb England... The official...

Oh!! that little hat!!

At the outbreak of the Second World War she was moved from school cleaning in Hillsborough to be a cleaner...

Blowing the whistle

We all, my brother John, my mother Hanora Rose Paul were down at Mutton Cove when she passed by. As HMS...

London Blitz

In 1944 a doodlebug V1 landed half a mile away and blew up Collier Road Police station. Originally we...