Forum: The Blitz & Homefront

This photo is of my fathers Home Guard unit on parade some were in Perry Bar at the time he lived and worked in Nechells. My farther later...

:) I am researching the Birmingham Barrage Balloon Squadrons, formed in 1939 and manned by the local population as part of the Auxiliary Air...

This seems a good place to start my first post, can anyone point me in the right direction. I am trying to locate S Davey, Upholstery works, could...

Ashley Street was heavly bombed in November 1940 so much so it no longer exsist. I am having trouble locating it in any Birmingham Street maps prior...

Is there any information of the bombs that fell on Parkdale Road.This was a new road having been built in 1938/9. Apparently a German Bomber was...

No one could put into words the terrible carnage that came to Coventry and Birmingham in the dark days of the Blitz, our Ma lost 3 homes through the...

I have some interesting information about a very young German-Jewish refugee who ended up as a member of the Home Guard manning a Heavy Anti-Aircraft...

In Marston Green there was a toffee factory, I think it was Walkers.It was mostly slab toffee which you broke with a small hammer.Some came on trays...

Hi Folk. According to a book I have recently read the youngest person to be awarded the George Medal in WW2 was Charity BICK. Charity had lied...

Is there a website or list anywhere that chronicles German aircraft downed during the war in the Birmingham area -- locations of where they crashed?...

I’m just wondering if anyone knows where I can get any information on Highgate bomb damage maps 1939-45. Any pictures or details will be of great...

hi folks...thought this was interesting.... bomb damage in bull st 1940...near boots and greys.. lyn

the location of this pic has been the topic of much debate for some time...but now we have a definate location... its newtown row where it meets...

hi all..this pic shows the damage caused by the first bomb to fall on birmingham in ww2...the house was and still is in enstone road off gravelly...

I was looking through youtube and came across this. I don't think it's been posted before?...

If anybody is looking for information with regards to Birmingham City Transport Home Guard If have found a book containing the records of personel...

I have been asked by David and Margaret Young if anyone can anyone help to identify where the following incident occurred and if anyone has any other...

I have just found out this morning that my grandmother's cousin , Lucy Wood, was killed in an air raid over Bordesley in April 1941. Does anyone...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparks68/415803785/ Does anyone have an exact date of the shrapnel damage to the railings at Fattorini's on Frederick...