My Aunt Peggy had an air raid shelter in her garden at Thornhill, Dewsbury that was built privately by my...
Jessop Park had bomb damage as had St Andrew's Church, Purlwell, where slates had been blown off the...
Drake & Warters, part-owned by Mrs Cresswell's father had men working in Sheffield, and they told...
When this showed signs of terminating my wife took up paid work first in the Food Office and then as a...
No one amongst our family or friends had any contacts in London, so there was no way that I could arrange...
The searchlight site we occupied at the time was on the edge of a village called Airemyn, on the south bank...
Fortunately, we never ever had to use this facility as any bombing which occurred at Bradford took place at...
Kenneth's first voyage in 1940 was on the Mary Kingsley, an old ship, and because it had been heavily...
I remember that Mam came to the classroom door to say ‘goodbye’ and my seven year old brother,...
Upon arrival in London, children were taken off to different homes, but not Hans and Elisabeth. Elisabeth...
On that first Saturday evening, Aunt Lil, along with Mrs Elam and also Mrs XXXXX took us to the cinema to...
It was after a particularly bad day decoying wood pigeons that I decided I wanted a twelve bore and...
I was born in 1936, the youngest of four children, in the City of Wakefield, and my earliest memory of the...