We lived in other people's houses, Mum and I; Some untidy, others neat unto obsession; Some smelled of...
This is my tribute to the factory workers who kept working in very difficult conditions during the war....
My Nan has told me this story of her brother, My Great Uncle Bert, since I was little. It had crashed...
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I used to go to the Park on my own even though I was 5 years old and no one thought it...
I was a messenger at the Council House in Birmingham....
One of the four engineers at the Adderley Park Transmitter had gone to join the RAF Reserve and they needed...
A huge bomb dropped on the houses opposite, lots of the railings, bricks, slates from the roofs, landed on...
When the sirens sounded we would head into the Anderson Shelter and unless you were there, it's hard to...
My father, who was an Air Raid Warden, had a stirrup pump in case of fire from incendary bombs. Although...
A bomb bursting nearby threw up a deadly shower of debris, effectively sand blasting hiw brand new badge...
I can vividly remember the searchlights criss-crossing the night sky looking for German aircraft and the...
My partner was friendly with a young man who lived in Bromsgrove but worked in Birmingham. So one morning...
There was not much direct bombing where I lived, but I would go outside and stand on the lawn to watch the...
I was 3 years old when the war started.I had just atarted infants school when the Germans started to send...
Summerfield Park was about 300 yards from home and, in those different days, I was allowed to go with my...
I remember the night the BSA factory was bombed....
As we dashed through the back door of the house, my father rushing ahead to open the door of the air raid...
When my fiancée was on leave from his army training he used to come with me in the ambulance to pick...
My war story starts when I was sixteen and went to work for BSA factory in Newcastle-under-Lyme... Then,...
Dad and his fellow fire fighters were fire fighting crew were fighting a fire, when an air raid started....
For my war effort I was sent to Castle Bromwich aircraft factory. I left my home in Washington County...
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