I spent the war years in the Southern Provincial Police Orphanage in Redhill, Surrey, and remember, as if it were yesterday, watching the Battle of Britain in the September of 1940 from our dining hall window. As a lad of seven years old I marvelled at the dog fights taking place with the vapour trails […]
We often slept under the dining room table when I was a child. The Second World War was at its height and my parents thought that was the safest place to be during an air raid. At the first sound of the sirens they would each grab one of us and dive under the table, […]