Coventry and Warwickshire

At the Age of 11

I returned to my school, which was John Gulson C.A to find that the top story of the school was missing so...

A War Baby from Coventry

I appantly spent the first five or six years of my life dodging the bombs which devastated Coventry by...

Memories of the Blitz

We had two hens and a cockerel, which were in the bomb crater still alive. My brother and me were water...

Stratford Characters

I was nineteen when the War started, and all the boys of that age had to go in the army whether they...

The Coventry Raid.

My dad was a delivery boy, and on the 14th of november 1940, he and a driver were to take a vehicle...

The Alvis Aero Factory (by Stratford Tesco!)

The Alvis Aero Factory. 30 — Dorothy Hall speaks of her work at the Alvis Factory in Stratford during...

Twins in Blankets.

My dad got a job as a gardener for the hall and we lived in the farmhouse on the estate. I was...

Bombed Out in Coventry

Coventry was very heavily bombed during the war possibly because in the First World War there had been an...

Coventry Blitz

On Thursday 14th November 1940,the air-raid sirens told us a raid was about to start.Our windows were...

Bombing of Coventry

We eventually found transport, it was a fish lorry and we travelled to the outskirts of Coventry on it......

In the Crypt

I lived in 33 New Street, I always came to the shelter at the Cathedral when there was an air raid, my...

Shortages and bombings

We went outside to see hundreds of incendiary bombs lighting up the countryside all the men in our lane...

Leamington schooldays

I remember the bombs dropping onto Coventry, thinking that they sounded like fireworks... The billeting...

A Coventry Kid's War 1939-1945

As a young child, my dad remembers how food was rationed, incuding sweets and fruit.He always laughs when...

The Factory that Never Was

This bloke — whatever was his name, he rang the War Ministry and said my factory's been bombed...

Evacuation to Harbury

As soon as World War 11 broke out,just before my sixth birthday, I was evacuated and I remember being lined...

Air Raid Memory

The night that Coventry was heavily bombed his mother took them outside the house to see the glow in the...

Air-born radar operated torpedo

I was serving a 5yr engineering apprenticeship at BTH Rugby from 1943-8 and part of my time was involved in...

There has always been Redtape

His reply was "it is still not allowed", He said I would have to go back to the station with him,...

Childhood and Married Life: In Nuneaton

Her parents and brothers slept in the dining room where it was dry and her and her sister went to either...

Coventry Memories

I was born in Coventry and my mum and dad lived there during some of the big air raids and they told...

Peter Hayes: Coventry Blitz

They finally picked us up from Coventry and took us back to Rugby at 10 the next day....

Surviving the Air Raids in Coventry

I was in Coventry for the whole of the war and saw a lovely little city and its beautiful cathedral...

Leading Soldiers to Safety

Work Experience and the Coventry Blitz

In 1938 the family moved to Coventry, as my grandfather, a miner, transferred to the colliery there. Vida...

A Bevin Boy in Warwickshire [J.Hughes]

If he didn't go he would be imprisoned, so rather than be a prisoner he became a coal miner. He was put...