Dad came home from work to tell us the state of the city, and our older sister Olive was still not home...
There were very few vehicles on the roads because private cars were stored during the war - often jacked up...
Hitler seemed to be bombing us at will - mass bombing raids on all our towns and cities but in 1941 Germany...
From then on the plane, which I am sure was a Wellington, was directed by the pilot to Concorde Park, so...
Bombs fell on Sheffield and other British cities including Doncaster — which was spared the worst of...
After we had pulled ourselves together we crawled through the tunnel into next door's cellar, and...
I was walking home when the air-raid sirens went at 7pm, I heard the planes overhead and they dropped...
1941 — While a student at the school of Art on top of the Public Hall, Barnsley, I was persuaded to...
One day, one of the Medical Orderly's from Kirkburton came to Huddersfield... After my time at...
We did our training on rifles, sten guns and digging trenches at Grimethorpe on the fields as well as at...
The lone raider had come in low over the airfield and dropped a parachute mine. The all-clear sounded so I...
In fact it was the second crash I'd witnessed, the first being a few years before, on that same...
Dad went down to the rubbish dump to find old crates and boxes to make wooden seats for the audience to sit...
We lived in Sheffield — Pitts Moor — and myself and 2 brothers were sent to Watton, in...
Whilst I was there I watched people paint the roof window black, so the light wouldn't attract enemy...
In the Sheffield Blitz an air raid siren went and Grandad Haigh came and told both lads to get under the...
He brought lots of food, usually tins that he had salvaged from burnt out warehouses. The work was very...
The dances, as far as I can remember, were old time dances like the St Bernard's Waltz, Doris Waltz,...
By contrast the railway at Aldridge with the odd passenger train and trains of coal and bricks from the...
Dad had gone to war and Mum had just given birth to my brother. I remember asking my Mum where was my...
My grandma's house was picked, and so she remembers how there were lots of children, of different ages,...
A telephone call requested the staff to pull in the balloon as quickly as possible because a British bomber...
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