I was determined to do this as I had a date with Derrick to go to the pictures in the evening -...
Mum gave Dad a last minute message, to get Gran and my Uncle George to leave their home in Clapham and use...
The many thousands of incendiary bombs released over Manchester on the Sunday night caused the biggest...
Another famous person who was a personal friend of Mrs Hichens was Joyce Grenfell who visited North Aston...
But the men all came back all right, there was none of them hurt, but black as coal, as if they had...
In our Fire Service Area there were 4 Divisional HQs – Norwich, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds and...
She told us that the Section-Leader who was organising the Youth Messenger Service for the Division was Mr...
The nozzle of the pump went into the bucket; you put your foot into the stirrup and pumped away, while...
Sporadic air-raids went on all through 1943, but as Autumn came, bringing the dark evenings with it, the...
A man I worked with years later told me that when he cycled home to Henley that evening there where craters...
About mid-day with the AFS still fighting the burning docks at Limehouse, an Army officer, Police officer...
To start with I worked in the office at the fire station which wasn't very different from the Norwich...
My dad was stationed at Cross Hill in town whereas the messenger boys were based at Abbotsfield in Sutton...
>WARTIME MEMORIES >By Lilian Ducie > >I was fortunate not to suffer any personal loss...
Frequently, we were asked to be make believe casualties suffering from assumed bomb damage in an Air Raid,...
I went to the door and looked out into deserted Slade Lane, lit up by momentary flashes, noticing here and...