Coventry and Warwickshire

Extract From Josie Vernon's Autobiography

Dad killed her and Mum plucked and drew her, as she normally did with the Christmas birds, cooked her to a...

Coventration

I lived at 12 Clara Street , Stoke , Coventry , with my mother , brothers Alf , Charlie and Len and...

Aircraftsman in RAF, 1939 to 1940

Added to my duties at Elstree I had something of a roving commission, having responsibility for other link...

The Coventry Blitz

The first bombs I shall never forget the first bombs to be dropped on Coventry. As Coventry began to...

My War Years in London and Warwickshire

Anyway, Grandad decided that Mum and I should leave London and go to Alderminster to escape the bombs. I...

A Bride's War Effort (wife of a Royal Engineer)

And then we would have to do the green house, and the greenhouses were long, I don't know how many feet...

ATC Adventures, then the Real Thing

I have got an idea we had something to eat and drink, but the trouble was every time a biggish bomb landed,...

A Stratford Boyhood 1940 - 1945

I remember going carol singing in Alveston, and in addition to the usual places where we knocked on doors...

Freeman to Prisoner to Freedman Part Two

Letters from Fred to his parents: Madras 3.10.1945 - from 916461 LAC Freeman F. EX-POW to Mr & Mrs FA...

The People's War

I was a pupil at ‘ Barrs Hill Secondary Modern School for Girls’, Margaret worked at the...

Firemen in the Blitz

But the men all came back all right, there was none of them hurt, but black as coal, as if they had...

My World War Two memories of life in Coventry.

The contract for my apprenticeship seemed to count for nought, and I was offered a place in the drawing...

Memories of a World War Two Evacuee (3): Life in Loxley, Warwickshire

There were about thirty children in my group and taken by coach to a small village known as Loxley, some...

Get Those Merlin Engines Back in the Air!

There was an advert in the Herald: “possession of cottage in exchange for a caravan” and it...

SOME MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR "

Mum and Dad decided that we children should be moved away from Coventry again and Mum brought us to Repton,...

May's War

The bombing of our cities started with London during August and then within a week Birmingham, the first...

An Evacuee in Wartime Coventry

But I did miss my Mum and Dad and sisters. A week later, the police came with his mother and sister and...

Joining the War Effort at 14!!

All the platoon went into Arley Woods trapping rabbits to add to the pot, and the two youngest members were...

Adventures of a Wartime Bus Conductress

I went out with him from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and on the Friday somebody had failed to...

The Dam Buster Pilots

Ann Tallis: I became interested because there was a plaque in Sherbourne Church commemorating one of the...

The Catastrophe of Coventry

About mid-day with the AFS still fighting the burning docks at Limehouse, an Army officer, Police officer...

Aunty Barb's Story: Coventry Blitz

I ran ahead of Mom and Dad to greet them on the front lawn at Manor Farm near Coventry... They...

My History of WW2

We worked under temporary cover for some time, but eventually they decided to move us to a former needle...

Stratford D Company goes to War

We went to France on January 10th 1940, and came out, through Dunkirk, and the Warwicks. were the last...

A real Tommy Atkins 1940 - 1946

Then out of the blue war broke out with Germany and I on the 28th March 1940 I enlisted in the Army...

Teenage Fun in Wartime; then a Pilot's Wife

"Stratford was a glorious place for a teenage girl to be, with hotels full of lovely young men in blue...