My family were bombed out of Bristol and my father -a vicar - was relocated to Bath... On arriving at the...
At 19 years of age in the summer of 1939 I volunteered and joined the Territorial Army at Gloucester. I was...
I was in church in the evening when the big raid on Castle St started - the minister had chosen a hymn...
I can remember hearing sirens when Bristol was being bombed and the whole family crowding into the pantry...
Her wedding dress and brides maids dresses were being stored at a shop in the Centre called...
I was an air raid warden in my spare time my husband was a bulder so he was repairing air-raid shelters....
One Nazi cow.. They fired, and before the sounds of the shots had died away, there was a long...
This picture was submitted by Iris Ward....
Third child toward the back on right is Iris Winterson; her sister, Evelyn is in front of her; brother Alan...
Dunkirk...
This picture was submitted by Ann Budd from Bristol....
The village of Frampton Cotterell celebrated VE Day May 1945 with a children's Party....
A school, a church and community celebrate VE Day May 1945 with a party....
This picture was submitted by Alfred Leonard....
My husband had 4 brothers - 3 went in the Royal Marines and 1 in the Navy. He became a fireman and...
When we eventually reached Filton I remember Station Road covered with mud and shrapnel I now realise that...
He was a butcher, farmer at Thornbury, Yew Tree Farm... By the time he got from Filton to Thornbury a bomb...
Picture shows Bedminster air-raid wardens... Wills tabacco factory was used as a shelter in Bristol....
This picture was submited by Antony Kear from Bristol....
I vividly remember weeping on Sepyember the third 1939... Because at almost sixteen I was too young to gwet...
PHOTO OF DOUGLAS BARLOW WHO WORKED AT THE BBC DURING THE WAR IN BRISTOL....
This article was submitted by Raymond Percy Green....
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