Birmingham and West Midlands

The night they bombed Coventry

The AK AK guns and the bombs were going off very loudly and sounded very near, my mom said "eveyone...

Air Raids on B.C.T Bus Garages

On the night of 11th December incendiary bombs fell on premises adjacent to Barford Street Garage....

Stirchley bombing

My mom was walking with my eldest brother and me in the pram near Dogpool Lane Mill, were they made...

St Chads Church

I was a young nanny in Edgebaston and was 17 or 18... I was looking out of the window down Chad Valley...

Castle Bromwich

Whilst living in Brockhurst Road, Castle Bromwich, we had a Prisoner of War camp at the end of the road, on...

Seeing Birmingham Burn

I remember coming back from a wedding in Wolverhampton on the bus to Oldbury. I was very young but I...

Me as an Evacuee

I was doing some shoppping for my Mum... The very next day I went to school and got a form to be...

FLYING RIGHT FOR COVENTRY

I watched the planes flying overhead from my grandfather's attic in Alcester. I remember one day he...

Growing up in Erdington, Birmingham

But on this one particular occasion he asked us all to get out while the air raid was still on to show...

The Apprentice - Part 2

Humphreys and has been added to the site with his permission. J.M....

VE Day party Lanesfield,Wolverhampton

This is a photograph of the VE Day party for the community of Lanesfield Wolverhampton , we think the site...

pette sacrofise

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Wolverhampton's wartime fire service

training session