Leicester was bombed and Freeman, Hardy and Willis a large shoe factory on the corner of Humberstone Gate...
My mother's sister, Auntie Lil, lived in llchester Road, Westham: with her husband, Uncle Fred who...
In the early years of the war, I was a pupil of St. Thomas's school which was being used as a clearance...
When my sister was born, in 1935, we moved into a brand new council house, with penny-in-the-slot meter for...
My father, knowing they were bombs, shut the door quickly and the bombs landed near the railway line, on...
It must be summer 1944,my brother billy and me are enjoying the summer school holidays because today we are...
Audrey Manifold is the niece of my maternal grandmother, Ellen Sellers. Audrey grew up in the Mottram area...
That evening in London, Winston Churchill, our great war-time Prime Minister, addressed the crowds that had...
I remember waiting at Southall Station with my mother, clutching my suitcase and wearing a green crotcheted...
We travelled on HMS Britannic in a party of about 12 watched over by Mrs Pope wife of the Captain - Captain...
In 1942 the Japanese attacked Singapore without warning, the same as when they attacked Pearl Harbour......
The two sisters went to a house in Braunton and Roy went to a 'big house at the edge of the cliff'...
My father was a maintenance worker at the major gasworks in Coventry and I remember him coming home and...
One of my vivid memories was going to bed and seeing the warehouse that used to be outside my flats and had...
The end of World War Two was my eleventh birthday. The day war ended, my eleventh birthday, I remember the...
I also remember they used to come round and ask us if we'd have airmen round for tea from the Meir...
One day I was over at my Aunt's at Kingston upon Thames. The air raid sirens went and it sounded like...
. The rest of the lessons were in rooms all over the place - above the Co-op, in church halls and in...
About the same time I was standing on the bridge of Burton Bradstock next to the playing field and my...
We all wore pretty clothes and bonnets and danced around the Maypole, sang songs like " Oh dear little...
We did have a memeory from a lady who had been at the Broadway cinema in Meir when the sirens went -...
But then there came a period of tension and confusion as with great haste the government ordered the...
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