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German Daylight Raid

We were coming home from school,the time about3.30 When the air raid sirens started.We were living in...

Arthur's Party

It was late 1940 when after enduring three days on the beach at Dunkirk and having the first shiphe was on...

Memories of the Blitz in Birmingham

When war broke out I was 13 years old and living in Birmingham where we had really bad bombing —...

My Granny in World War II

My Granny's life in the Second World War. She went to stay with her Granny for a year which was sort of...

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Poem: A War-time Childhood

We lived in other people's houses, Mum and I; Some untidy, others neat unto obsession; Some smelled of...

A Tribute To The Factory Workers

This is my tribute to the factory workers who kept working in very difficult conditions during the war....

Uncle Bert and the bomb

My Nan has told me this story of her brother, My Great Uncle Bert, since I was little. It had crashed...

Mrs Churchill's letters

Talking to eh gentleman managing the Churchill room, holding the extensive Churchill memorabilia...

Picking up Aluminium Foil to confuse Enemy Radar

I used to go to the Park on my own even though I was 5 years old and no one thought it...

From Council Messenger to RAF

I was a messenger at the Council House in Birmingham....

BBC Radio Engineer

One of the four engineers at the Adderley Park Transmitter had gone to join the RAF Reserve and they needed...

The Night We Were Bombed

A huge bomb dropped on the houses opposite, lots of the railings, bricks, slates from the roofs, landed on...

Roses Story

When the sirens sounded we would head into the Anderson Shelter and unless you were there, it's hard to...

Childhood Memories: In Bushbury, Wolverhampton

My father, who was an Air Raid Warden, had a stirrup pump in case of fire from incendary bombs. Although...

Not All Horror: Memories of a Member of the St John Ambulance Brigade

A bomb bursting nearby threw up a deadly shower of debris, effectively sand blasting hiw brand new badge...

Childhood Recalections of WW2

I can vividly remember the searchlights criss-crossing the night sky looking for German aircraft and the...

Bomb Damaged Birmingham

My partner was friendly with a young man who lived in Bromsgrove but worked in Birmingham. So one morning...

Wartime Memories

There was not much direct bombing where I lived, but I would go outside and stand on the lawn to watch the...

Air Raid Warnings

I was 3 years old when the war started.I had just atarted infants school when the Germans started to send...

Barbed Wire and Cakes, Summerfield Park

Summerfield Park was about 300 yards from home and, in those different days, I was allowed to go with my...

Bomb Damage in Birmingham

I remember the night the BSA factory was bombed....

The Wave

As we dashed through the back door of the house, my father rushing ahead to open the door of the air raid...

Memories of the World War

When my fiancée was on leave from his army training he used to come with me in the ambulance to pick...

A Wartime Work Experience

My war story starts when I was sixteen and went to work for BSA factory in Newcastle-under-Lyme... Then,...

Those that Kept the Wheels of Industry Turningicon for Story with photo

Dad and his fellow fire fighters were fire fighting crew were fighting a fire, when an air raid started....

War time story of Mary Franks

For my war effort I was sent to Castle Bromwich aircraft factory. I left my home in Washington County...

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