by admins | Feb 24, 2005 | Other Wartime Memories
Below…a message from site visitor, Peter Taylor… “my grandfather [Thomas Chapman] was an auxillary fireman during the war and he attended the Wilkinson incident. He told my mother [Nora Chapman]two stories of that night, one amusing and one rather...
by admins | Jun 24, 2004 | Other Wartime Memories
Local School Teacher Killed in Bombing Raid Jean Thurston, a retired Whitley Bay school teacher contacted us with the story of Doris Ewbank who was killed in a bombing raid on North Shields, 3 weeks before the Wilkinson’s disaster. Doris Ewbank, who taught at...
