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Coventry after the Blitz

We moved to Coventry in 1941 just after the main blitz on Coventry. My grandfather was at Armstrong Siddley...

Plane Spotting

Seconds later, there were several explosions and bombs fell on the corona pop factory in Chesterton... I...

We Had Heartache - but We Came Through

My youngest brother did not pass for the forces, so he was sent to Blackpool to work at Vickers Armstrong....

A Few Memories

Norman Sykes, my uncle, who lived at Haugh Lane, Wombwell was a war correspondent. My dad was in the air...

Wartime Schooldays

All Margaret's uncles were called up for action and she had 6 uncles... Jimmy was in the Royal Navy...

My Family Broken by War

I was 2 years old when war broke out and my dad volunteered as he wanted to go in the Air Force...

War Reticence

My father, Richard Leese was, I think, a motorcycle messenger... I and my brother knew he'd been to war...

Dancing Days

My husband was 14 years of age when he was taken from his village school in Poland to go and work in...

A Wartime Wedding: Memories of Mrs Kay Hamilton, Aberdeen

We managed to have a small wedding cake and an afternoon buffet for 50 - that was the most number allowed,...

Missing Presumed Drowned

We lived at Ligoniel and used to take shelter in the 'coal hole' during the air-raids... I worked...

How I Almost Sabotaged the War Effort!

A road in Anfield called Breckside Park was being used to park Sherman Tanks prior to the D-Day landings....

Born in an Air Raid

I lived in Chevalier Street in Ipswich, and my sister Olive lived in Bramford Road. I remember one night...

Lateral Thinking

My father requisitioned boats in the Irriwaddy Flotilla and sent my mother south down the delta to the...

Dimlite Batteries

During the war we found our way around in the blackout with the aid of our torches, but unfortunately the...

Allsorts

I had with me a box of liquorice allsorts and my stamp alnum - my most important possessions. Death...

Pte. Leonard Chambers Part Seven.

Leonard Chambers Part Seven. Other Parts to this story are at: Pt 1: A5544128 Pt 2: A5544191 Pt 3: A5544272...

My brothers' families

Featured in the photograph is my eldest brother: Arthur Cook. Also featured is my next to eldest brother:...

Life at the Begining

My father Eugene had lost his leg in the first world war at the Battle of Mons so he had a job...

Childhood Memories in Woodbridge

My earliest memory is 鈥淒oodle-Bugs鈥� droning over our house at Woodbridge, the siren blaring...

Me at 14.

It was working on Wellington Bombers, inspection pistons for the aircraft engines.So that was my first...

Air Raid Sirens

I remember that when the air raid sirens would sound we had to go and hide under the stairs because we did...

A Wartime Boyhood

Michael Kingham told his story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. I...

No Talking

But my paternal Grandfather James Goddard and my Great Uncle Percy Makin were in protected occupations -...

My First Plane Crash

I saw a Flying Fortress go over from Parham and saw it crash into some nearby woods. After the crash, the...

Saved By The Fridge

So my Dad unplugged the fridge and we all huddled together inside. Nobody could believe we had survived...

Young and Newly Wed, in Wartime Birmingham

Both my children were born without my husband being with me. our daughter was 5 mnonths old before he saw...