I then had a long metal rod which I placed inside the shell case and when I spotted enemy aircraft I rang...
There were days when we would have to go the the Baptist Church and have lessons, other days in the garage...
Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. There's only one of...
We had to stay on in Weston until October 1946 as our Dad was not demobbed until then and we had no...
When the bombs started to drop around Kings Heath and guns and lorries were going up and down the high...
Heathcoat School — Mr. Children went potato picking on farms — not Geoff. Few cars — hold...
We hurry down the street close to the walls until we're opposite the shelter door then straight in - no...
In 2001 it won the Scottish Association of Writers’ Scholarship and the Dorothy Dunbar Trophy for...
My Uncle said that he is not giving me money but if me want money then me would have to come over...
The lucky ones managed to get a place in the village; others, such as myself and my friend Keith were sent...
Each evening I would put my pyjamas on and get my doll and my brother Dennis would take me to the air...
A bomb blast meant that windows blew out, the ceilings fell down and tiles fell off the roof, we had lino...
In the event, they turned up before he had billets for them all and quite a few went to Annesley Hall for...
I have three brothers two older, one younger, my eldest was a messenger boy on a bike in the Blitz, until...
A fundraising event was held in the village hall in aid of wings for victory and I sang a song and won...
Because there was an underground spring in the garden we were unable to construct our Anderson shelter so...
We arrived in Devon at St David's Exeter; we went from the station to a Market where ladies gave us tea...
Hull was very badly bombed during the period 1942-1945. 3: My father Alfred Smart was a fire fighter based...
I was mainly on the barrage balloons on the balloon site at Derby. We lived on the balloon site and we had...
On one occasion we decided to assist with the moving of some 2-year-old Suffolk colts from the marsh area...
In the days when kings were Kings they always had jesters. "What I need" said your friend "is a...