We had talks from Officers about loads and aspects of flying such as what to do in case of ditching in the...
Clive and I used to walk to Tibberton on Sunday afternoon and would go to Sunday School in the church and...
The people of the Air Training Corps, the University Air Squadron before we entered the service, our...
At this time (1944) I was living at home in Essex, and just before Christmas, my stepmother was expecting...
A few months after the accident my mother told us that Auntie Brenda would be coming to live near us in...
There were many girls about in Bedford and one night there was a ‘do’ on at the Dujohns...
Lilly takes up the story again: Leaving London for Wales I was relatively young and careless but my poor...
My dad was stationed at Cross Hill in town whereas the messenger boys were based at Abbotsfield in Sutton...
He insisted too that I worked with him on the same coal face so that " I can keep an eye on...
On the 15th of January, my brother Victors friend, Peter Savill and my mother travelled with me to Euston...
Many valleys in Northern England had 2 railway routes running through each valley, those of the L.M.S. and...
In Llanfair and Lloyney our milk was fresh and organic, from the cows which grazed in the local meadows and...
One of the first contractors in the area lived next door to our school, so I saw some of the first Fordson...
There were no two seated Hurricanes so we had to get familiar with the cockpit and procedures on the...
She was a ‘maiden lady’ who lived with her mother, so she decided that she would foster; so as...
I was 14 years old and lived at Clacton-on-Sea, on the flight path for German planes heading to bomb...
Whilst there, he met and married his wife Lilian, a nursing sister, who came to live at the Vicarage where...
Some mothers, whose homes had been bombed in Liverpool came to Madeley and Kemberton to rejoin their...