Grandma's two youngest were Redvers and Edward. They were both sickly and as soon as possible after The...
Fire-watching didn't mean a cosy chat around the hearth, But picking up incendiaries and giving them a...
The RAF, the Navy and the Army all had an interest in Blyth and by the 1940’s the port was once again...
Unconcerned at the anxieties which must have plagued every parent at the time, our days were spent in...
I was 21 years old at the time, living with my parents in Caterham, just over a mile from Kenley aerodrome....
When the world war II started in 1939 Ron and Les were just young boys aged six and nine, who had to...
I was born in Nottingham in 1936 to Doris and Ted Walker who had met on a blind date at Nottingham Goose...
I stayed in Blackpool with my mother; my father was still in Manchester working in a munitions factory......
Sixty-two years later I went on an outing to the Imperial War Museum in London and in the 'Spies'...
My wartime memories can be divided into three sections, Bournemouth, London and Oxford....
Dad asked mum to give them tea and whatever food we had. One day when we were about to leave the shelter...
On Sunday, 3rd September, we were expecting an announcement from the Prime Minister, Mr.Neville...
Rolls-Royce had additional protection - in many local streets and roads there were metal burners , out 20...
I was 21 years old at the time, living with my parents in Caterham, just over a mile from Kenley aerodrome....
I stayed in Blackpool with my mother; my father was still in Manchester working in a munitions factory....
I was 21 years old at the time, living with my parents in Caterham, just over a mile from Kenley aerodrome....
May I record the story told to me by my Dad PO> Henry Walker of how NELSON'S flagship THE VICTORY...
The rusty tins of food without labels which were supposed to have come from a ship which had been sunk and...
Whilst I was serving in Selby I met a young man called Albert Hilton who was a dancing instructor. Ten...
I believe the plane continued over Newbegin and Wood Lane, and then went on to fire at St. Mary`s Church,...
This journal was all about life in the Second World War... the rationing, the silence of the church bells,...
Little packets of biscuits were dropped into my pushchair and Mum was eagerly opening them and gave me an...