We caught the trolley bus into Wolverhampton and then walked to the station, each of us carrying a bag or...
Sometimes during the day we would see a balloon floating free across the sky looking like an Airship, other...
Another episode at Hams Hall was during a guard duty on the river bank near to the cable bridge, dad was...
The night before, 9th April, Coventry was badly bombed again and it seemed the practice of our enemy to...
I lived then with my family, grandfather, father, mother, and younger brother in what was then quite a...
When the Second World War started in September 1939 I was six years old and I lived in Birmingham with my...
Eventually dad said it was time they had a ‘cuppa’, so off went Fred down the garden to the...
I would like you to imagine a young country girl 20 years of age standing on the platform of her local...
We were obliged to stay at my grandmother's house for three days because a huge oil bomb had buried...
Arthur Whitehouse, my Granddad, would go out and shoot rabbits and pigeons to supplement their rations......
Eric and I used to cycle from West Bromwich to Fradley and spend the day watching them take off and land,...
The British Navy had destroyed many German U-boats and forced others to flee for safety into neutral...
He put me onto a train from New Street Station, Birmingham to be met by my Aunt and cousin at Templemeads...
The island down the road by the Golden Cross pub got bombed one night and Mrs Swan next door was Air Raid...
My father volunteered for the Royal Air Force and that left me and Mom alone, and, as she suffered acute...
MIKE Sambrook's sons never asked him such a question, but if they had, his answer would have been...
A friend who had been a boarder at Bablake School, Coventry at the same time as myself was happy to take me...
At the time of conjunction between the cat with the pork on one side of the door and Kate on the opposite...
My Father who had joined the A.R.P. was on duty on this particular night and part of his party was Ted, my...
We wore them at night, and during a raid my sister and I were put under the piano in the drawing room...
Edwin did not enlist on his own, his cousin David Cole joined him, but they were soon split up after their...
Fashioned favourites, jazz, cowboy, love ballads, songs from the films —anything and everything, as...