There was a cottage in the grounds called Gores Farm Cottage, this was badly damaged by a bomb, but was...
When there was an air raid, people from Bourne St and Hill St went underneath into the cellars of The...
They came over and bombed London and we had the front of our house blown out, and the back. I was taking...
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My father Sydney was in the Home Guard and a Street Warden. On this night he was on duty in our road...
My dad built an Anderson Shelter in the garden, it was damp and dark. English and German fighter planes...
I remember this one Saturday, the bus came and the conductor said it would be another half hour plus...
In the background could be heard the explosions. My Gran and Grandad, Aunt and Uncle, Mum and Dad, Sisters...
My mother was taking me into town and as we walked into the station there were men who had dug a trench...
Germany wanted to bomb the steel works in Bilston, but the nearest they got was Ladymoor....
They also formed messengers for the police, fire service to take messages to HQ to the sub offices because...
I really would have preferred to go and fight but the powers that be decided that I was more use in...
When it was the night of the worst raids in Leicester my dad wouldn't let us go into the shelter... Dad...
Little Eileen was amazed by the barage balloons over Dundalk Bay- but hated the yellow butter Jam New...
This was probably the main reason why Sunderland was targeted for bombing... In the early hours of the...
I was living near Bearwood but my mum had to go into hospital so I had to live with my aunty in...
Newark being at the side of the London to Edinburgh Railway line in a valley must have been hard to...
We could see the glow in the sky when Liverpool and Manchester were bombed; people would say things like...
Whilst there Jack and his wife had to take shelter from the Blitz, he remembers how they would go down to...
A flying bomb went overhead and a Spitfire was in close pursuit, I ran behind a farm building to try and...
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