Once we went to an operational bombing airfield in Yorkshire and were allowed to chalk rude messages on...
Another brother, Josef, had intended to come to England with me, but a motorbike accident, in which his leg...
Mam could not afford this for four children so we were brought home... We ate birthday fruit cakes, scones,...
Fearnehough Street was the home of my parents Hilda Julia and Frederick Marsh and my maternal grandmother...
The difference between brother Eric and I is our temperament, this came into fruition more readily, when...
He would often stay up all night tracking German aircraft as they flew towards our cities on bombing raids....
Our luggage was in a road vehicle, and as we sat on the top deck of the bus waiting to disembark, a...
I was in charge of my two brothers and being the bossy one, told them to follow me along the breakwater,...
We lived in a small terraced council house only about half a mile from Croydon airport, which had been...
My father had already left for work when the message came over the radio: "Please stand by for an...
Even businesses were evacuated, and Ruth's father, who ran Powell's Timber Merchants on Cowley...
Waves of bombers were sent to bomb London accompanied by many fighter planes to protect the bombers from...
This building, some time long after the war became a retirement home and was later destroyed by fire . My...
The trains left London for villages and towns distant from the Capital, and after a couple of hours the...
He had an opportunity to become a boy and enjoyed the freedom of open countryside and a river, The River...
We had a horrible office supervisor, the frightening Mrs Taylor, and some of the girls were catty to me......
This involved travelling all over London to visit the collectors and provide them with pins, boxes, tins...
Throughout the war I lived with my father, mother and three brothers in Sandycroft a small village beside...
Reverend Storer was the Vicar of Hutton and Cranswick, two adjoining villages about 20 miles north of Hull,...
It meant a long journey to school every day: one bus from Mereclough to Burnley and then another bus from...
When the youngest brother, Alan was demobbed they thought it was best that Fritz went back to the camp over...
I was wondering what to say to him, Mam shouted along the passage, "Is that you Willy, how's your...
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