Mid-June became Doodlebug alley for this part of Kent. As it was, the chapel attached to the colony was...
I suddenly saw a yellow object falling through the sky; at first I though it was a bomb falling but when it...
Their names were John and Thrisa Twyman. The book was brought to me for my inspection and there sure enough...
We landed in Scotland and travelled down to London by train. Because we were based in Sidcup, Kent, we were...
Marise Relf had been evacuated with her school to a small village at the beginning of the war but when her...
Whilst stationed at Maidstone, I spent weekends with my family in Margate... After leaving Maidstone, I was...
The loudspeaker van was always prepared for instant use and larger batteries had to be always charged to be...
My work in the war I was in a maintenance unit and when an aircraft crashed we would have to go to...
I was 12 years old and living in Gravesend when one sunny morning I went to visit my friend, Alan Gurr, who...
We worked flat out for a year in The Persian Gulf; assembling a hundred lorries a day and towards the end...
On the up-platform all through the period of the evacuation there was a band of young ladies with postcards...
I looked up towards the sky and saw a German Aircraft - a 215 bomber - no more than two hindered feet...
Cory, Dad used to shunt coal from the Barges coming down the Thames to the Coal yeards... Food, as we all...
That job was six in the morning 'til six at night Monday to Friday, then six 'til midday on...
It was a very friendly reunion, and in fact I'm now involved in twinning English and German towns....
The 12 focker wulf bombers were in the air being shot at by beaufort a-a guns , but the bombers released...
The first flying bomb mentioned in the record incidents appeared on this day. Many passed over the town but...
Playing a game of cricket with Cardew Robinson, wickets were chalked on the wall in the street....
My brother Dennis, now 85 years old, was in the merchant navy - in the war, on one occasion he sailed in...
One day whilst on her rounds she was cycling down Bexleyheath Broadway. Suddenly a German fighter plane...
'Dog fights' developed as British fighters attacked them. Planes spiralled down with smoke pouring...
When the trains come up from Folkestone Harbour, red hot cinders used to come out because it's such a...
Recommended story
Story with photo 
