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One Boy's War

After about an hour or so, we arrived at a village called Alrewas where we were escorted into a place...

WW2 When I was Five.

And I know Fred's wife and my mom used to worry while they messed about in the workshop. Dad was...

Some Reminiscences of 1939-1945

Main events were reported and the three that I remember especially were the Second Battle of Alamein, the...

Wartime Memories

The upper and lower deck had to be checked in case of any tacks in the upholstery, the fan belt and dynamo...

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Childhood Memories from the Second World War: In Penn, Wolverhampton

We caught the trolley bus into Wolverhampton and then walked to the station, each of us carrying a bag or...

Wartime in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, 1939-1946

Sometimes during the day we would see a balloon floating free across the sky looking like an Airship, other...

Tom Clifford - The War Yearsicon for Story with photo

Another episode at Hams Hall was during a guard duty on the river bank near to the cable bridge, dad was...

Joan Quibell’s Diary — Part Three- 1941.icon for Story with photo

The night before, 9th April, Coventry was badly bombed again and it seemed the practice of our enemy to...

My War - Personal Memories: Home Front in Birmingham

I lived then with my family, grandfather, father, mother, and younger brother in what was then quite a...

June: A Birmingham Evacuee to Loughborough

When the Second World War started in September 1939 I was six years old and I lived in Birmingham with my...

WW2 When I was Five.

Eventually dad said it was time they had a ‘cuppa’, so off went Fred down the garden to the...

WAAF

I would like you to imagine a young country girl 20 years of age standing on the platform of her local...

Some Recollections of Life in Birmingham during WW2.icon for Story with photo

We were obliged to stay at my grandmother's house for three days because a huge oil bomb had buried...

The Whitehouse Family of Long Lane Newtown at War by M.Hadley

Arthur Whitehouse, my Granddad, would go out and shoot rabbits and pigeons to supplement their rations......

ONE BOY'S WAR (Part2) The Blitzicon for Story with photo

Eric and I used to cycle from West Bromwich to Fradley and spend the day watching them take off and land,...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Two - 1939-1940icon for Story with photo

The British Navy had destroyed many German U-boats and forced others to flee for safety into neutral...

Early Memories of Evacuation to Wiltshire

He put me onto a train from New Street Station, Birmingham to be met by my Aunt and cousin at Templemeads...

Birmingham at War.

The island down the road by the Golden Cross pub got bombed one night and Mrs Swan next door was Air Raid...

What the War Gave and Took Away

My father volunteered for the Royal Air Force and that left me and Mom alone, and, as she suffered acute...

Who really won the war, Daddy?

MIKE Sambrook's sons never asked him such a question, but if they had, his answer would have been...

The Outbreak of War

A friend who had been a boarder at Bablake School, Coventry at the same time as myself was happy to take me...

Chiristmas Dinner Dash

At the time of conjunction between the cat with the pork on one side of the door and Kate on the opposite...

Memories Of WW2: A Child in North Birmingham

My Father who had joined the A.R.P. was on duty on this particular night and part of his party was Ted, my...

My war memories 1939-45: Blitz in London and Birmingham

We wore them at night, and during a raid my sister and I were put under the piano in the drawing room...

Enlistment and Training

Edwin did not enlist on his own, his cousin David Cole joined him, but they were soon split up after their...

Fire Orders chapter 2b

Fashioned favourites, jazz, cowboy, love ballads, songs from the films —anything and everything, as...

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