On the evening of 27th November, 1940, Mrs. Marjorie French sat alone in the air raid shelter at her home in Glenn Avenue, Purley. Warmed by an electric fire she was awaiting the return of her husband, John, a toolmaker by trade. As she listened for the sound of his car, the drone of an aircraft caught her attention...and then a bomb dropped.
Reverend Tim Goode’s sermon from the Battle of Britain commemorations: We also felt that it was amiss that there was not ...
As part of the Kenley Revival Oral History Project, we have interviewed speial people with memories of Kenley during World ...
On the 4th November, 1940, a lone enemy bomber attacked Caterham on the Hill dropping several bombs which damaged shops and houses, and opening fire on children leaving the Council School, (now Hillcroft School).
Only two days after the terror of the daylight raid on Chaldon Rd, the area was hit again, this time taking the lives of two women at the opposite ends of life...
Frances Cherry was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and in 1994 she conducted an interview with Colin ...
In RAF Kenley by Peter Flint, the author recalls an interview with Pamela Rust, a W.A.A.F. A.C.W.2, who was eighteen ...
