Kent

A Good Prospect 2

Later on in the war I.T.M.A. became the favourite, with comedian Tommy Handly. Sunday evening, the BBC...

The World is Small- Dr Miln's Present

I passed the Sikh sentry and made my way to Room 9 Navy Office, which was my Passive Defence Post —...

ADVENTURES ON A SEARCHLIGHT SITE GILLINGHAM 1940

Anyway it was 1940 and for this story I was at a searchlight site called Darland Hill which was on the brow...

Life On The Gun Sites

It was quite early in 1945 that we were moved to Ashford in Kent,or rather to a farmer's field about 2...

My Chatham Hero

NOT EVACUATED

As Dover had barrage balloons protecting it the German fighters came in from the Channel to shoot them...

'Plane Spotting

I was sent to Ireland for a rest, then, on my nineteeth birthday, after being ill from seasickness on the...

Paying my Share

After a while I went to Dover where there was a large concentration of balloons. Enemy fighters would also...

Hell Fire Corner 1943- 1945

After three weeks training I was posted to H.M.S. LyNX Dover as a Watchkeeper S.D.O. I was billeted for a...

The Dreaded RSM

Double, double, faster” with ever-increasing volume, some how he was expected to travel even faster...

Paying My Share

After a while I went to Dover where there was a large concentration of balloons. Enemy fighters would also...

My number was 8576, the Royal West Kent at Maidstone - by Gladys Meaton

The Captain in West Kent was a big name at the Palladium and he would arrange a coach every other Wednesday...

Greetings from Folkestone!

THE SINKING OF THE "UMVOTI" In July, 1940, when imminent invasion was expected, I was posted to the...

Our Village In The War

Our village,Limpsfield Chart, Surrey, lies under the North Downs on the Surrey / Kent border,it has about...

2) We had a lot of fun

The problem with this was there was a wide tunnel entrance and then the offices went off - but all the...

From Tunbridge Wells to The Persian Gulf and Iraq

When discharged, I had to travel by bus to Tel Aviv, then bus to Haifa, train to Damascus, desert bus to...

Shelling in Dover

Then I told him I was on the receiving end of his shells and that I had seen this plaque on Dover...

A Lucky Escape for a Black Cat In Folkestone

One landed in Morehall Avenue and many were killed including the Mayor and Mayoress of Folkestone. The...

A1120366 - 62 Years Overdue

The staff at Dymchurch Library were very surprised when a fiction book entitled Spanish Heels by David...

Hedge Hopping in Kent and Cycling in Ripon

I worked for Colonel Hutchings and Captain Nurrish of the REME....

A Journey to Lincolnshire in 1940

It all started with a letter from my fiance Ron, telling me that he was now up in Lincolnshire, and on the...

The Death of a Lightship

This is an account of an incident witnessed by Ron Spearpoint in Folkestone It was typed by Fiona McNeill...

An Army Nurse at an American Battle School. BBC Broadcast 25th/26th April 1944

KENT: Oh, do American girls grouse... So, listeners, this is Kent Stevenson closing the British...

MEMORIES OF 1942 AND MY FORTNIGHT IN THE WRENS

It was 22 carats when at that time wedding rings were mostly 9 carat gold. I did one day in the galley...

Rose Austen

Rose and Rand Austen celebrated their Emerald Wedding in 2004. When the government decided to evacuate all...

Front line Britain - Kent

Kent was the likely landing zone for a German Invasion, so there was a lot of military activity....