Stories categorised in 'Wiltshire'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Without doubt the most important crew member in a Bomber Command aircraft was the navigator; if you did not...
It was at Chelsea that I met for the first time Dennis Castle, who was to become a lifelong friend, amongst...
With one of my friends I climbed up in the church tower and had a jolly time ringing the church bells...
My husband had an aunt who was cook to the then Countess Cowley who lived in a mansion in Wiltshire. This...
There was still some meatsuch as pigs heads, trotters, tails, hearts, liver, etc., which mum would make up...
The famous broadcasts by Winston Churchill and King George VI, the news, children's programmes, and...
My next memory is in the afternoon - a large crowd had gathered outside the Town Hall - loudspeakers had...
I was in church at St Benedict's where I was a bell ringer, sidesman, Church Council member and...
Many reasons, but nevertheless there was still celebrations in Trowbridge with our dear friend Albert...
Fortunately, I was soon recalled to Porton, where I worked in Dr Howarth Williams' lab analysing...
Italians and Germans in Trowbridge Toward the end of the war there were new arrivals — prisoners of...
Rose this morning to hear that the Germans had invaded Poland, and were attacking on all fronts....
In 1940 I was in the RAF stationed in Wiltshire, I was 19 at the time and hitchhiking my way back from...