Air Raid Shelters
We didn't sleep in the house too much for quite a period
Cinema in Wartime
An apt film title
Dad's Army
The local Home Guard
Doodlebug Hit
A narrow escape in Robertsbridge Road
Gas Masks
Preparing for war
Grow Your Own!
... And rabbits and chickens
Gunfire on St. Helier
... all our windows and mirrors would bounce on the wall..
Incendiaries
"They cut through the paving slabs like butter"
Rationing
You'd got to find the coupons for everything ...
School Years during the War
The air raids (Tweeddale school)
St Helier Congregational Church
A letter written by Gomer Davies, vicar in 1941
Then Came the War
Shrapnel still hot and smelling of cordite
Wartime in Mitcham, April 1941
Unexploded bombs and wartime casualties