Birmingham and West Midlands

Evacuation, Motorbikes and an Alsatian dog

My family lived in Birmingham and they made private arrangements for me to be evacuated to Berkshire to...

Childhood Memory

One day, there was a loud thud ourside, unpon investigating my mother found a large crater halfway down the...

The Best Pint Of Beer

One night during heavy bombing I was pushed under the kitchen table with my Mother and a lady I called...

A Nurse's Story

I was 18 1/2, had just started nursing training and was on the veneral disease ward for solders... One...

Olive's Story

As the train approached Wolverhampton station it stopped and a serviceman who had been asleep in the...

An Almost Deadly Errand: Childhood Memory in Birmingham

The plane, flying at rooftop height, was coming straight towards me, strafing the road with his machine...

War work in Birmingham

Before we got the Morrison shelter we had to go up to George Road public shelter. We didn't get the...

The Second Master at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton

On Mondays he wore the Army Cadet Corps uniform. Tuesdays and Thursdays it was the Air Force Cadet...

A Narrow Escape: Incendiary bombs

A Narrow Escape: Incendiary bombs...

My first Recollection of WW2

I was born in April 1940 and my first recollection of WW2 was when I heard my father say, outside our...

Young and Newly Wed, in Wartime Birmingham

Both my children were born without my husband being with me. our daughter was 5 mnonths old before he saw...

Machine-Gunning of Civilians

When the air raids were at their worst I was at school in Halesowen in Worcestershire... It was common...

The Day School was Bombed

The school had been bombed last night while Pam and her Mum sheltered in the Andersen air raid shelter at...

Air-borne

During the war, I was stationed in the Midlands, living on an ROAC Depot... We did not know where they were...

In Search of a Midwife!

As he was cycling down the road he heard a voice shout "Halt who goes there". Dad replied...

Food Before During and After the War

Before the war my mother baked fairy cakes, sponge, chocolate éclairs and currant cakes. My mother...

On the Steps with Me Grandma

Actually I was brought up by me Grandma because I was born before me mother got married... And when the...

Hitler, his part in my birth! [to blatantly pinch one of Spike Milligan's book titles!]

My mum, Ann McLellan of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, would never have left home of her own volition,...

Soho Road, Handsworth on Fire

During 1941 there were regular bombing raids on Handsworth in Birmingham — it was horrible, We...

A Child in World War II

After the phoney war I was put to bed each night in an Anderson shelter at 6pm — my mother stayed...

Marrying a GI

"My twin sister married a GI on a freezing January day, at the synagogue on the Bristol Road... But my...

Lancaster Bomber

Suddenly a Lancaster Bomber appeared in the sky, it was flying very low with smoke billowing from it and...

Animals and Air Raids

There was a local dog that would allways bark just before the sirens would go off. Equally gifted was our...

Lead Soldiers

When we were about 10 or 11 years old we used to go around in a big gang playing games such as...

Dad's Midland Red Bus in the Air Raids

Mom and Dad lived in ST Lukes St Cradley Heath, and during the second world war Dad worked for the Midland...

Air Raid 1940 mid

Jill was coming back from Birmingham by train where her grandmother lived. Just outside Bristol the train...