Stories categorised in 'Birmingham and West Midlands'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
We often heard Mom and Dad discussing her antics while Uncle Jack was away at War. Mom's plan was that...
My other four serving brothers were George, Royal Artillery, Jack, Royal Artillery, Joe, Army Fire Service...
Although my back was almost broken I jumped out of the ambulance and after a quick glance at broken windows...
He lived in a part of Birmingham that was badly bombed. We had a suite of offices in Birmingham and our...
It was a dry clear night and, as I lived on a tram route that took me almost to the door of...
Surgical and theatre nursing At the end of my first year I was despatched to work as a junior theatre...
Out with my cousin in Shepton Mallet we saw Alan and a friend standing on the corner of Peter St in the...
So it came about that May, Jean and I were firewatchers at the automatic telephone exchange on Stubbs Road,...
A supply of body lice was required for testing on DDT, and I and a few of the small group of friends...
We tried to get away from The Casino but the fight spread faster than you could imagine and soon spilled...
A further team consisting of surgeons, housemen and nurses reported for duty in the basement of Lewis's...
My father had to drive over a girder blown into our rear garage access alley.The drive through the raid is...
Our family lived in Walsall during WWII we lived in a council house in a row of about forty others, all had...
At the age of 19 and still working at Crabtrees I had an accident with a piece of unguarded machinery and...
I remember watching Coventry when it was blitzed... Then I saw a light over our roof, going in the...
She was the first female conductress to travel from Birmingham City Centre to Wednesbury . When the raids...
One evening my father said that there were unexploded bombs in Summerfield Park. but made no other comment....
On more than one occassion, during 1942 and 1943, some of my friends would proudly display one or two live...
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