He worked for the civil army department in Aldershot, doing stores labour. I can't honestly remember...
I can never remember being frightened even though in Gloucester, where I lived, there were bombings and...
The Day the Bomb Dropped on Our Village...
I was born in 1936 in the then leafy London suburb of Chingford, right on the north-eastern edge of...
That's how it appears to me in retrospect but it was a long time ago and the years to tend to eliminate...
The family haulage firm of E. J. Gould & Son was run by my Dad, Reg and his brother Ken and nearly...
Two low-flying aircraft came over and I pointed these out to my aunty when they started shooting at each...
My childhood was spent first at Cullion and then Donemana Stations on the Donegal railway Line which ran...
Some of them remained in Torquay and two of the London lads married cousins of mine. Food was strictly...
Mam had threatened to send me away for what I did to Uncle Henry, and she didn't come with me. It...
My friends and I had to dash into this shelter it was the only time I can remember we were actually bombed...
Stan Grosvenor, the early days in Downside Road, Middlesbrough; Part 3 — A Tommy Gun, Pink Buns and...
All the noise of sport ceased instantly, footballers froze, golfers sliced wildly into rough and bunkers...
Beyond the golf course was Weston Wood, parts of which man had never trod... Bob would never enter Weston...
At the height of the Battle of Britain in the middle of September, I joined the Prep School, which was...
My first war-time job was to help evacuate children away from the Hull area....
I heard how Tante Marthe used to carry secret messages hidden in her underclothes and how, once, she was...
Uncle Gordon moves out to share with another relative and Minnie and her four children have one bedroom...
I remember a train being full of servicemen and Maureen being passed into the carriage through an open...
On one of our visits to Brixham I saw my first tunny fish which was being landed from the fishing boats and...
I was a small boy of five living down St. Margaret`s Avenue in Cottingham when the War began and I clearly...