In Vienna ten per cent of the inhabitants were Jewish. One of my sisters was eighteen at the time in 1938...
Not surprising, because all around the Common the British had placed a ring of anti-aircraft guns to attack...
When Mum and Dad got home we set off for St Ives and left the debris as it was. During the weekend...
The school was used as an ARP post where men and women were on duty all day, waiting for the siren to...
We all enjoyed our time at Burnham but once it became obvious that the risk of bombing was over, we left...
This was because the German planes attacking London headed for the River Thames and had the extra land-mark...
My next recollection was being sent away to stay with my aunt and uncle in stone in Oxney near Tenterden...
It heightened my awareness of the war and so when one evening we heard a plane low overhead and circling,...
Part of my service as junior assistant in the office of the Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Brighton, for...
My Mother's sister, her husband and four children were living in Southend - my uncle was a Manchester...
He then had a spot of bother because besides his demob suit etc he had to have a travel permit which of...
"On 3rd September 1939 I was six years old and was playing in Beech Avenue, Hazel Grove, when one of my...
Because the enemy would most probably send aeroplanes with bombs to destroy the city; the docks where food...
My brother Frank, five years my senior, did a bit of digging, but often seemed to have a lot of homework...
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A rattling loose rear mudguard and soft tyres made peddling my bike hard going but I was being driven on by...
Even there we felt the threat of German invasion from France so it was surprising that my parents thought...
I walked up the path and handed over the potatoes and vegetables; Mrs Burgess asked me where the windfalls...
My mother, ten years younger than he, began her war by taking into our little house first of all evacuees...
The line of ten high explosive bombs that landed in Ossett landed between the houses. 1 The King George VI...
An old rotten Oak was dug out, following a great deal of chopping and rotten chips all over the garden......
I recall rushing to the window along with many other boys to see this armada of aircraft flying past,...
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