Birmingham and West Midlands

Nursing after Dunkirk and D-Day [N.Barnes]

Nursing after Dunkirk and D-Day. I then moved to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital in Birmingham for general...

One of the Many: An Apprentice Plumber in Birmingham

I was born in Walsall West Midlands I was 14 years old when WW2 was declared, I can recall vividly...

Chronicles of W.B.

I was working in Birmingham in 1940 and was staying in digs with a friend... So myself and George slept in...

Getting On With Life

The only casualty of the the war in our family was the budgie of my sister. A bomb was dropped near my...

Mary Beeson's Memories of the Second World War

I was nine years old when the War started and my Mum was in bed having just had my youngest sister the...

School Evacuees

They chose the children they fancied, gave addresses to the billeting officer. Boys were not wanted but as...

An Incendiary Attack Grove Lane

My Father, Henry Roland Fleming, who had served in The Royal Engineers during the Great War, having...

Bed Wetting

Mrs Guy's eldest son made catapults for Mick and I and showed us how to use them,but not what to aim...

Wartime Memories (part two)

Anyway, after our earlier lives as 'bus drivers in Birmingham it was like heaven being in the Army... I...

Schoolgirl in WW 2

I was eight years old when WW2 started , living in Richmond Hill Langley; next to my best friend Margaret...

Childhood Birmingham

You were either in the forces or working in the armaments in factories, or the Land Army or Nursing. My...

War Time Titbits

Children collected shrapnel and fragments of bomb cases and anything else they found lying around after a...

Incendary Bombs

My father Henry Roland Fleming realised that the German Air Force would be dropping Incendary bombs on our...

Wartime Memories

We also had an older brother, he was 17 and rushed off to join up, but was sent home 'until he was...

My War: A Child Living Near an Airfield

Born in 1937 l was just two years old when it all began for me, l lived just 4 miles away from...

A Wartime Mystery

I went to the window and saw flying down the length of the field from east to west an Armstrong Whitworth...

My First Air Raid: West Bromwich

Although Birmingham was regularly bombed and aircraft droned overhead we were not attacked and soon gave up...

Working in a Reserved Occupation in Birmingham

Before the war, he lived out in the country in Llandudno with his newly wedded wife, but as a result of the...

Mixed Blessings

We both ended up with nits and so did all our friends, mum was so tired and dad was in the army...

The Wartime Memoirs of a Teenager

We now began to feel the meaning of Hitler's threats regarding his rantings about his secret weapons as...

Vera Humphries - story

You lived at Longbridge, about 8 miles out of Birmingham - a place where everybody knows about the Rover...

I helped to dig the Anderson Shelter!

In Grandad's garden we all helped to dig out a large hole for the Anderson shelter, which my Dad and...

Blitz in Liverpool - Army Service in Wolverhampton

After six weeks we were taken in the army lorries - we had no idea where we were going and I ended...

The Evacuee

How we loved Auntie Jane and Uncle Tom, they were like angels in a foreign land to us, also Auntie...

Air Raids on Brum

There was the manager Mr. Cowan and Ralph Bishop the Chief Operator, it was pretty noisy with the hell of a...

Aston Birmingham Evacuee Returns

july 1942.sent back home from rugeley boys camp. now aged 14 to start work.i was apprenticed to a joiners...