Coventry and Warwickshire

Coventry 1940

My mother, Eveline Mary Gregory, remembers the events of 1940 in Coventry. I worked at the BTH and...

From Coventry to Butlins By Charles Cook

The following year my family moved to Earl Shilton in Leicestershire and the closest I came to being bombed...

Never Fired a Shot in Anger: Service with the RAF

We had to travel three miles to the cookhouse - we all had a bike and the down bar was painted yellow...

Avoiding the Bombs

In october 1940, we had enough of the bombing so Stan and i decided to go to Nuneaton to stay with...

Memories

In the early hours of the morning the A.R.P warden came to see we were ok and say that most of our...

A Glow in the Night Sky

When the all clear was sounded we would go out to the back garden and watch the glow in the night sky...

The Coventry Blitz

We soon heard the crack of the anti-aircraft guns and the thud of bombs dropping, but as we lived on the...

Kelly Lamps and Searchlights

And the nursing home was where the Civic Hall now is; in the Wartime it was turned into a maternity home,...

Edith Kane's War

My father worked at Cortaulds in Coventry on nights and after one particular night of very heavy bombing he...

The Anderson Shelter

My father was an air raid warden, brother Ken was away in the army. brother Ray was in the Home Guard and...

Coventry Blitz 14th November1940

Later that night mother had just handed me a cup of Horlicks when the sequence of bombs got nearer and...

Air Raids.

My father Jack always stayed in bed at night saying “No German bombers were going to keep him out of...

War Brings in the Patients

I had a bit of luck you see really, because it was towards the end of the War when there was a...

Collected Recollections of Wartime Bedworth

My father was a maintenance worker at the major gasworks in Coventry and I remember him coming home and...

Celebrating VE Day.

At long last the very day that everyone had hoped and waited for had now dawned,as it was officially...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: The Forestry Service

The lady cried for the dog and the budgie, but not for her husband, I was ok and I walked out of...

Wartime Warwick

August 1942- a girl was wounded in the knee by a machine gun bullet in an upstairs room in Warwick when a...

Grandma Green

But luckily my grandma didnt lose anyone in her family. her dad, who was a postman, was called up for the...

Miscellaneous Memories

My mother, whose brother and sister-in-law evacuated themselves from Coventry to her house in Leamington,...

Fortunes (Mis-fortunes) of War

IF any one life epitomises the for¬tunes of war it is that of my grandfather Henry ‘Harry’...

Shottery Post Office in Wartime

27 — Roma Innes, and Dorothy and Nigel Whateley lived at Shottery Post Office during the War: Emmy...

An Eventful Wartime Wedding

The wedding cake had been destroyed along with the presents at the Co-Op... It wasn't iced, or...

Coventry Memories

Ken worked at Bagington on Whitley Bombers... Ken was an ARP warden who worked on shifts depending on...

From Paradise to Eden

Excerpt from my book "From Paradise to Eden" ISBN 1-904754-56-2. Not considering any consequences...

And I was in the Brownies - Part 5

I had spent the war years playing with my friends and living with a loving family.I hadn't really...

Jean's Memories of Growing Up

During the war we had German prisoner's at Arbury Hall who volunteered to rebuild the church totally....