Coventry and Warwickshire

A White Nylon Parachute was Wrapped Around the Remains of Our Front Gate

We were moved to a cottage, which was vacant on the outskirts of Kenilworth... I return to school in...

Four Hundred Bombers" by Trevor Cook

From August 1940 the city was the object of intermittent air attacks, which followed the usual pattern; the...

Memories Are Made of This: The Coventry Blitz

Fortunately, my two younger brothers were staying at my sister's house at Wyken. The house was...

Keeping Ourselves Together

I couldn't keep those I received from Margaret, in case I was captured by the Germans, who could've...

Growing Up in WW2 - And Later

At St Nazaire dock, father and his friend were parted, father directed onto the ship Princess Patricia, his...

The Blitz and Air Raids in Coventry

This story was told to Katy Parkinson and Kelly Nash from St. David's High School with Ted Cooks full...

Stratford Invasion! [by Ministries and GIs]

1 — Edward Booker, born 1902 and his wife, Lilian, born 1909, talk about the Government Treasury...

A Chance Meeting

On learning that my mother wasn't to happy where we were living, Aunt Nell mentioned to her that there...

RAF AirCrew Reminiscences

I received my posting notice — report to the RAF AirCrew Receiving Centre in London at 0800 hrs the...

Adventures of a Land Girl

She said well, we'll see, so eventually when I came to Stratford I was doing other work, like we would...

Barrage Balloons On The Loose

I still have vivid memories of the "Blitz" on Coventryin November 1940, as during each air-raid...

My Lost Teens

But whenever the siren went, my mother would herd us all into our home made dugout shelter in the garden...

Coventry Raid 14 November 1940

When the air raid siren went off, we children were excited — it was lovely to watch the big silver...

My Memories of the War Years Between 1939 -1945

Joan was nurse at Alderhay Hospital, Liverpool and my brother had just started his career as a young...

From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles (Bill) Pickering

From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles Pickering. Later,I was part of the 14th Army which was to launch...

Shadow Factory Cameraderie and the EVT Washing Machine

My story relates to a shadow factory built just a few miles outside Bromsgrove in the industrial town of...

War, Romance, Fashion and Dancing

We had an Anderson Shelter in the back garden and from that night, I didn't sleep in my bed again, I...

Bombed out in Coventry

During the air raids on Coventry, father was on fire watch, mother, my brother and myself were put to bed...

Trials and Tribulations of a Land Girl

Trials and Tribulations of a Land Girl...

ARP Memories

Due to my age I had to enrole as in the “messenger service” but the training was virtually the...

Playing Soccer with the POWs

Now I knew Alderman George Lea and Alderman Bob Knight, and they knew my father very well and we still...

Life in the Land Army 1941-1943

Nothing but fields and cows, I worked for Welsh people, I was the only Land Army girl. My brother and his...

Where Was Scottie?

He and I talked the dog problem over together and we decided the only way I was going to know about dog...

The Coventry Blitz

My name's Dorothy Bishop; my husband George and I were living at 24 Grasmere Avenue, Coventry during...

The Return of a POW

From working at Sanders button factory Miss Byng was required to go to work at Longbridge on the munitions...

My Family and the Blitz

So George made a protected area in the house in the front room by pulling the piano into the middle of the...