Well, there were other planes shot down in parts of Cheshire, but we were only involved if it was local to...
Mrs Irene Gosset interviewed by John Gaisford and Rosie Mere Transcribed and edited by John David from...
During the war John Turner was a miner at Hylton Colliery, Castletown, a village on the western edge of...
We'd been evacuated to Church Stretton to the Long Mynd Hotel to an annexe, Tiger Hall, I was in the...
The orchard was owned by people I only knew as Jack and Yote, the relations of Bet and Reg who lived below...
My father returned from ARP duty and said “we've gotta get across to the shelter they're...
So she then went to London and was collected by her parents and taken back to Canterbury. One incident was...
Three weeks later, the Police came to our door again and this time my mother and I were given 30 minutes to...
Gilbert and I had planned to be married at Easter 1944, but in January we heard that single girls would be...
My name is Bruce Hayman, the only son of Joseph and Beatrice Hayman of Exmouth in Devon. I was in London...
Memories come thick and fast — sewing blackout curtains, the cricket pavilion becoming the Fire...
In Hamburg, Alice returned to school, she joined the Church Choir and was recruited into the Hitler Youth...
Penicillin had just been introduced and it really seemed the miracle drug. 1 I suppose it was...
Her husband Mr. John Andrews joined the Royal Navy and became what I believe to be a Petty Officer or...
But ever vigilant she stayed where she was and did her job going back and forth between Swansea and...
When Mum was working at the Cadena Café, the Manageress became very unreasonable and unhelpful when my...
Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...
My Dad was in the Home Guard and carried out fire watching duties in the old police station at the bottom...
A lot of children were evacuated from Birmingham which was heavily bommbed during the war. We were lucky in...
My brother Edwin joined the Infantry and was sent straight to Singapore. Even now, when I go to the...
I was nursing at East Suffolk Hospital in Lowestoft when the war broke out... The Germans also bombed a...
I had to inform my grandmother and aunties in the south end of Liverpool of my father's death. I was...
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