Coventry and Warwickshire

Life As An Evacuee

My friend, Margaret Dunn and I stayed with a very kind couple, Mr. And Mrs. Squires; not used to children,...

From Binley to Burton Hastings

I was an only child, and went alone to Shelford Farm at Burton Hastings- although some children went as far...

My Memories: Air Raids in Atherstone

It had a bit of a bed for us kids to sit on and for curtains we had old sacks! Where we...

Wartime memories - Midlands

Some early memories - going down to The Anderson Shelter in the middle of the night, listening to the Ack...

Delivering a Baby in the Coventry Blitz!

Delivering a Baby in the Coventry Blitz. I remember one night of particulary lengthy bombing in Coventry....

Coventry Days

We lived on an estate and has an Anderson Shelter in the back garden... After November, there was no water...

A Friend Made in Time of War

I remember being evacuated with my school, Stoke Park Girls’ Grammar, to Atherstone. I ended up with...

Surviving the Coventry air raids

The programme each evening now is to get home as early as possible, have a meal and set off in the car,...

Bomber Crash

One day, when I was only 7 years old — must have been the beginning of 1940 — I heard a plane...

Called Up - and Demobilised

I was in a Territorial Unit and got called up in thirty-nine, so I was in the army until December...

William Wilson - Lucky Survivor of Incendiary in Coventry

I collected sand from a pile nearby and was pouring sand onto the incendiary when it exploded... I was...

My Revolver with One Bullet!

During the early months in 1940 I was attending Agricultural College in Studley, Warwickshire and I was...

Coventry after the Blitz

We moved to Coventry in 1941 just after the main blitz on Coventry. My grandfather was at Armstrong Siddley...

The Shakespeare Hotel and what the War did to it

18 — Kate Higgins worked at the old timber-framed Shakespeare Hotel, and talks about its...

Working in Coventry

In 1943 I decided to go to Coventry, having an auntie there whose son had told me that wages there were...

Evacuation

I was evacuated in 1940 when Holland was invaded.I had passed the scholarship in 1939 and the whole school...

Coventry Blitz Pre-Warned.

It is possible not very many people knew, I am assuming it was the government that knew and advised the...

VE Day Celebration

I took a train into London, all sixteen years of me, and made my way through to where the crowds were and...

Poem - All Clear

Where Were You on VE day - and What Were You Wearing?

A policeman, obviously deciding to be friendly, cam over to talk to me but all I could do was mutter and...

VE Day street party June 1945

I made a sponge sandwich using liquid paraffin from my medicine cupboard, eggs from my own chickens in my...

Home Life, Sherbourne Hill

As father was the gamekeeper we lived in the keeper's cottage on Sherbourne hill. Father's petrol...

Mothers Story

My grandfather cut a trap door section from the floor and dug out part of the room foundation of the home...

My Story

I was born in 1935, so I grew up in the 2nd World War as a youngster in short trousers I was...

Schoolboy Evacuated from Coventry to Lincoln

The school remained in Lincoln for two and a half years....

Six Eggs

She related how one night a bomb dropped at the end of the street 200 yards away and the initial blast...