by admins | Mar 6, 2013 | Archives
When war broke out my father became a section leader in the wardens. He knew more about the raids than anyone else. He’d come home from work and say there’s still a yellow alert on. The beggers is hanging around somewhere. (Red alert meant the siren had...
by admins | Feb 20, 2005 | Archives
Three weeks before Wilkinson’s was hit our school, Chirton School, was flattened by a land mine. The Rex Cinema was hit too. The Rex manager, a good bloke who told us jokes and made us laugh at Saturday morning matinees, was killed outright. Robert Westall:...
