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He told me that where he was working in Birmingham, there was a sewage works next door and one day someone...
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They knew that my favourite Uncle ken was down there, with his wife, Aunty Em, my mother's younger...
There were seven of us children and my Mum who took the two youngest with her -Derek was still a baby. Mum...
When the bombing over Manchester became an everynight occurance it was decided to evacuate my gandma and...
The other crew members from the plane were Feldwebel Franz Olssen - Navigator, Gefreiter Hans Schiealinski...
I can remember standing on my grandparents balcony, they having had to move home twice already, and...
It was the morning of the 27th March 1945, Mum had gone to clean the library in Orpington High Street, it...
My great nanna was also told that my great-great grandma's street had been bombed... My great nanna...
I was born in Northampton in 1928 and had just passed my ‘scholarship’ in September 1939, so...
My father did fire watching duties several nights a week and was outside the shelter one night, ready to go...
The story I remember of those times was: one summers evening she was on the last bus back to Leicester from...
In September 1939 I was in the Commercial Sixth Form at the Blyth School in Norwich. I also helped at St...
Mum used my pram to collect firewood.There was a salvage place for cans and bones at the back of Victoria...
I remember that our kitchen had a shelf on one of the walls, we were both sitting under this shelf at the...
The telegram said "We regret to inform you, that your son Geofrey Stringer has been seriously...
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