Another bomb exploded about 150 m away damaging the roof of Alan's house with flying debris. A stick of...
This did indicate that there had been a very big bombing raid in Portsmouth, although we didn't hear...
I was living in Walthamstow and was moved to Rushden. I was given a carrier bag with a tin of corned beef,...
When my friend George Taylor and I had got settled in we went to the cinema on the seafront to see...
My mother came to visit us while we were in Evesham, although it was not until the Christmas hoildays that...
I was quite indignant about being evacuated to Cheadle Hulme, because those from Manchester Grammar had...
My father, William, was born in the Isle of Dogs, East London, in 1913 and my mother, Doris, was born in...
The London Zoo sacked all the staff of military age and kept the older staff of which my father was ons as...
Before going up to bed I had done my nightly chore of shutting Paddy, our cat, out in the garden and...
Later that night mother had just handed me a cup of Horlicks when the sequence of bombs got nearer and...
There was the sound of throbbing engines overhead.The women were able to tell the difference between our...
We were sent to my Grandmother's in Ramsgate in Kent, thinking that was the safer option... When my...
What transpired was that the government of the day had put into action a mass movement of children from the...
During May and June 1940 I remember so many British and French soldiers arriving at Winchester Railway...
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The raid had been what we termed and incendiary raid, high explosive to break open the buildings then...
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As we stood on the doorstep, my grandmother a little behind and to the left of my mother, and myself on the...
This is a picture of my father, Sam Barlow, standing beside a bomb which had been recovered from the middle...
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