Coventry and Warwickshire

I was in the Brownies - Part 4

It was hard to concentrate on history lessons - Mr Parker's trousers were far more fascination.He never...

The Coventry Blitz and 50th Anniversary

All those people of my own age-range, white haired, bespectacled, recalling briefly between hymns of how...

My Life in World War 2

Next I applied to the Library, the Council House and the Telephone Exchange for a job, but no replies were...

Evacuees in Stratford

And then, coming up to that, before that period when they were building the aerodromes, Long Marston...

My Memories & Involvement in WW2

These costumes were worn in a grand finale in which we marched and danced in intricate formations to such...

Bombings in Cannock,Daventry and Coventry

The Bomb Squad came and defused it but the authorities told us we had to move so Mum & I went to...

Letters From Betty in Kenilworth to Family Member Rene at School

We were all downstairs and all our guests i.e. the Kenwards, Clare and Ron and the Luck family came down...

Just One WAAF

Never the less Mother sent a parcel and on the night, with night flying cancelled because of bad weather I...

Coventry Evacuee

I called them Auntie and Uncle Draper... My only real ‘war’ memories are of being lifted high...

The Evacuee:Coventry to Kenilworth

I called them Auntie and Uncle Draper... My only real ‘war’ memories are of being lifted high...

My Time at Farnborough

Eric's mother came to the wedding in Conway and brought a lovely white wedding cake with her which a...

A Wartime Exprience During The Blitz

Eric Archer was devastated as he was very much in love with Muriel, but Muriel's feelings went very...

Voluntary fire fighting and rescue work.

A historic society based near Rotol Airscrews in Bristol recently published a complete diary of the...

The Coventry Blitz

To be quite honest it was better to be in Coventry than on an aerodrome with bombs all round the place...

My Memories of Wartime Coventry

The First Air Raids After we had been there about two years the first air raids on Coventry started on the...

Memories of Nuneaton Childhood

The Wardens and other men used to stand outside until a bomb was head coming down, then they use to dash...

Memories of an Eight Year Old Boy

Our house was not suitable for living in and my uncle came to take my sister and myself to stay with my...

Coventry, Nov 14th 1940

The little ones slept on the floor and Mum and Dad and my eldest sister had chairs by the door.We kids...

A Schoolgirl Evacuee finds Happiness in Stratford

We got quite a lot of close bombing in Birmingham, because at the bottom of the road where I lived was...

Evacuation from Birmingham to Belbroughton

Friday morning 1st Sept. arrived — we loaded the buses to take us to Hockley Heath station —...

Air Raids in Bromsgrove

German bomber flew low over Bromsgrove and bombed Austin Works at Longbridge. By the time we had reached...

A War-Time Evacuee

All were older than him and his two sisters, Betty and Maggie Harrison, who were about 9 or 10 at the time,...

My Memories & Involvement in WW2

It is impossible for today's generation to imagine how very dark our villages and towns were during the...

Home Guard to the Real Thing (in India)

One or two old soldiers said ‘Christ knows where we're going,’ and pulled in at Durban,...

How the Bombing Affected My Education

About 10 students turned up and we were in a lounge furnished with 2 settees and easy seats.We were...

Growing Up in Wartime Coventry

The Spring of 1940 saw me sitting the entrance examination for Coventry Technical College and I commenced...