>WARTIME MEMORIES >By Lilian Ducie > >I was fortunate not to suffer any personal loss...
Further up the street, on the same side, was one particular house that had been bombed, looking in the...
It was in 1943 that I had my first trial for Newcastle United and I signed on amateur books Stan Seymour...
One evening in particular I remember, we had knock on the door during a blackout; there were loads of RAF...
Mum used to tell me about her 2ozs of tea — the quota of one adult per week. I remember mum grumbling...
Dad was in the army and mum worked shifts in the bus garage at Knightswood. My four brothers and I sleeping...
You went out and played in the streets, when I was brought up in the Duke Crescent area, which was a fairly...
Living at 85 Semilong Road, we had an extremely long garden, with a greenhouse, and a father who loved...
While on his rescue duties, he would sometimes find an unexploded shell, or incendiary bomb, which had to...
I was born in Hammersmith, West London on August 7th 1938, just one year before war broke out, and yet I do...
1 remember in particular Giinter Matem, who had a beautiful singing voice, and was much in demand for solos...
Enemy bombs fell on Ewhurst, we had an oil bomb in the school playing field, and others fell else where in...
Well the week after the Bristol bombing raid I was to be married at St. Pauls Church... There was an...
Later, during the time of the V1 flying bombs,, we used to look up at the Spitfires trying to shoot them...
On the London Underground on which I travelled frequently all tube train windows were covered with netting...
Dad heard during the night that Savile Town had been bombed, so one of his work mates lent him their bike...
Working at a ‘munitions factory: I went on to work at an ammunitions factory — John Feavers. I...
I was in Lily Martins school of dancing and Jack Short came up to ask for six tall girls to act as...
Not before he had seen the Tate and Lyle factory go up in flames the night the bombing was very heavy on...
My father was a bricklayer, he worked for Rangers, which was a building firm in Yate and my mother worked...
When teacher said take of your Mickey Mouse, there was a distinct racket of rubbery thuds as we all threw...
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