It later became a bus station and after that a car park....
At the start of the last war I was enjoying a summer break with Mum and Dad and my younger brother and...
It must have been shortly afterwards that we were walking on Pewley Downs, which were at the back of our...
My father had gone off to fight the Hun soon afetr arriving in Greece was reported as "missing"....
Our Northern town of Accrington happily escaped the bombing — except for one miscalculated bomb which...
Lord Ismay was a member of the War Cabinet and spent a great deal of time in London but when he did...
I recall either being pushed or finding myself behind the settee, and seeing a blinding flash in the bay...
The girls I was with had fled Germany before the war, Anita Rosenburn and Elisa Muller. In the evenings,...
We lived on the borders of Birmingham very near to Sutton Park they said the German Pilots would see where...
I remember Dell's factory Grafton Road, Kentish Town being bombed, ariel torpedoed. I saw my first dead...
I was put to bed in the cupboard under the stairs every night just to be safe. My aunty Grace who was...
He didn't want his wife and three children to be n Edinburgh in case of bombing, so he arranged for us...
Dad used the railway sleepers to make bunks for us and we children slept in the Anderson shelter every...
Emil Weingaertner was working as a seventeen year old farm labourer at Banat, near Timisora, Romania when...
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ memories My father was the Civil Defence Controller for the Chepstow area; he had an office in the...
As a child livng in Bodmin, we were brought up on a diet of propaganda via such illustrated magazines as...
My father served in Burma during the 2nd World War - he was in the Artillary, his name Bdr.W.J.Eldridge...
I was a young schoolgirl in Enfield, North London, during the war. When the blitz started we huddled under...
My sister and I were evacuated from London with our school in 1939 and were sent first to Brentwood, Essex,...
A few bombs were dropped on the town, but we were lucky mot to have more, Church St. lost an electrical...
On one uneasily spent night, as my two sisters and I sat quietly along with our grandparents in the house...
A few hundred yards down the road was a large Traffic Island, with a battery of Search Lights and a battery...