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Godber: Dad's dad on left. 1935, behind W/Moor. He was member of the bowling club for many years - and had one of those allotments.

Godber dad was apprenticed as engineer in RAF, posted to Takoradi during Battle of Britain to reassemble kit planes for the western desert, returned to UK in 1942 joined bomber command as Lancaster flight engineer. Came down in the Ardennes on way back from 57th op to Mannheim September 1943...

Indeed Godber - it seems odd to me that my parents grew up only four doors apart. They were aware of each other but dad went into the RAF in 1937 at 16 (from KNBS) and then only really met up with mum in 1944/45 having been liberated from his escape to Switzerland. They married (Hazelwell...

Godber - many thanks for your lead on this. 'Horseshoe Tunnel' makes obvious sense when you look at it and the thread makes fascinating reading. Mum never mentioned that name, hence I couldn't search on that. This incident with the multiple casualties in a makeshift air raid shelter was almost...

Thanks Lyn that would be appreciated.

Lyn Many thanks for your reply. My mum lived at 37 Waldron's Moor and was 16 at that date (my dad was at 45 but only his parents lived at Waldron's Moor in the war as he was in the RAF) so quite possibly they both would have known Reginald, although she never said as such to me in the telling of...

My mother lived on Waldron's Moor, Kings Norton during the Second World War and recounted a story to me years later that during an air raid, several people were killed by a bomb falling on or near them sheltering in a 'railway tunnel'. While visiting the area recently, I could find no tunnels...