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... paintings and drawings depicting scenes from the Second World War Slides were also shown of war-time scenes and the production used music from the 1930s and 1940s It is now 50 years since start of the Second World War and most of those young evacuees are now ...
... Leach a member of Armistice Day Parade Committee Pupils at the school were invited to take part in a project about the Second World War and several interviewed grandparents who lived through it or saw action History teacher Liz Willis said: It was a very ...
... Claire (left) and Ann HITLER’S air raids helped to bring Harry and Hilda Wall together during the grim dark days of the Second World War Harry had moved to Bedworth after his Coventry home had been bombed: “I went to stay with Freddie Walford and his wife ...
... ECHO Six friends from Bedworth take a leisurely stroll' down Blackpool’s Golden Mile’ at the end of the Second World War They were all from the Newdigate Colliery Sports Club on a committee outing The pitture was sent in by George Shilton (second rn- ...
... father had met him during the First World War and he became a family friend: “When he married us he was a padre in the Second World War” says Mrs Bates She was born in Wales where her father had moved to open a new factory for Cour-taulds in Flint but the ...
... forgotten their sacrifice - November 11th Twenty five years later more names were added to the War Memorial at the end of the Second World War But Bedworth has always observed the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the exact time when the ...
... Gallagher was a Liberal Councillor and held the chain of office as Chairman of the Urban District Council during the Second World War He had a glass and chinaware shop in King Street: “It was next to Dewis's corn shop which was on the corner of King Street ...
... Steve McQueen portrayed in the epic film ‘The Great Escape’ He escaped seven times from prisoner of war camps during the Second World War and was at the Summer Gala to sign copes of his book ‘Life Hangs by a Silken Thread’ Right: LADY GODIVA (Pro Poretta) ...
... than 40 years ago and the couple have now celebrated their ruby wedding Says Mrs Webb: I was born in Leeds and when the Second World War came I had the choise of working on munitions or going into the Forces” She moved to Coventry to work at the Armstrong ...
... live He went to Exhall and Ash Green School worked at Alfred Herberts and then spent 32 years at Jaguar Cars During the Second World War he served for six years in the Armed Forces In 1967 he was elected to the old Bedworth Urban District Council as rep ...
... chop your ears off” he said After leaving Bulkington Church School he started work at Shilton Brickyard Just before the Second World War a slump hit the building industry and the demand for brickies fell sharply He moved to work at Sterling Metals in Northey ...
... throughout Britain Her own “service” record is impressive During the First World War she was in the Land Army and in the Second World War she was in the Women’s Voluntary Service in London during the blitz experiencing the terror of the “doodle bugs” (flying ...