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I had a replica leather flying helmut to protect my ears and remember icicles hanging from beams in a...
There is a bomb in my basket鈥, said Aunt Cissie as she placed it carefully on the Air Raid...
My own worst experience of the aftermath of an air raid was not in Burton but whilst I was staying with...
We lived on the ground floor, my Uncle Gene and Aunty Emma lived on the first floor and Uncle Charles and...
My younger cousin Leonard Ritson and I learned to sing wartimes songs, including what I much later realised...
Our end of Eyhurst Avenue had an S bend in it so as to widen the space between Eyhurst and Benhurst...
I recall quite vividly being dressed up with a label and a gas mask box hung around my neck and catching a...
Coventry was severely bombed for a long time during the war. Mum, Dad, Gran, Granpa and my brother used to...
My Dad had managed to get a message to a field post office and for the first time had sent a telegram...
I well remember leaning out of an upstairs window as a German Messerschmidt beat up the town, flying not...
At the time of the evacuation of the Stokenham Parish area, due to the use of the area for the training of...
For the Church she wrote 鈥淚n this world that G-d Created Why o lord is there so much hatred A...
When talking to us she urged us not only to forgive the Germans, but also the Dutch Quislings who...
We stopped near the village school and were then taken to the village hall, we were given lemonade and...
She started preparing the fire, went down the cellar for some coal, when one of the neighbours鈥 cats...
He was so jealous of his family that the only two people who could get anywhere near them was me and our...
On the eve of the wedding Mother and Dad and I went to Peterborough to stay with Uncle Alf and Aunty Lily....
We have a family album in which Mum wrote: 鈥淲hen war was declared, I was in charge of one of the rest...
While we were at Furzecote, Mr. Gamblin had a new milking parlour built, I remember lorry loads of rubble...
At 11 o'clock I was in the village church, with almost all of the villages, listening to the Prime...
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