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Category: WW2
Amazing Ordeal of Two Local Airmen
Blazing Bomber 12,000 Feet up Fought fire over Germany for three hours THEN 57 HOURS ON SEA WASHED ASHORE IN RUBBER DINGHY A gallant young wireless operator whose home is at Bickley, Sergeant John Barry Holdsworth, third son of Mr and Mrs GK. Holdsworth, of Wellsfield, Denbridge Road, was one of the crew of the Wellington Bomber who were washed up in their rubber dinghy on the Isle of Wight at Ventnor after a heavy raid on the German capital a fortnight ago. Another gallant member of the crew was…
A great favourite with Men: spice Cake
Spice Cake This is a rich and heavy textured cake and a great favourite with men: 1 1/2 cupfuls of water 3 ozs sugar 4 ozs grated carrot 4 ozs dried fruit 1/2 teaspoonful of ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoonful of mixed spice 2 ozs margarine 8 ozs self-raising flour 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate of soda Put the sugar, grated carrot, fruit and fat, with the spices and the water into a stout little saucepan an bring to the boil. Cook for five minutes, stirring well together. Let these ingredients get quite…
History made on ruins of Bromley Parish Church – 1941
Bromley Parish Church has played a significant role in the life of Bromley for over 800 years. The church was destroyed by a bomb on the night of 16 April 1941. Doubly unique Institution and Induction Ceremony on ruins of Parish Church. Impressive procession of Clergy and Laity. Task ahead: Rebuilding the Church. For the first time in the history of the Church of England a Vicar has been instituted in a Methodist building and inducted on the ruins of his Parish Church. Source: Bromley & District Times, 14th November…
Look Out in the Blackout – Advert from WW2
Be careful when crossing For safety’s sake, before you start to cross, look right – look left – listen. Remember that drivers may not see you although you can see their lights. So wait for a clear passage and don’t cut it fine. Look out in the Blackout Source: Bromley & District Times,
True Tales from The Navy: 1941
The price of Admiralty By Commander A.B. Campbell, R.D., of the BBC “Brains Trust” Minesweeper making port – at dark – and they’ve had no sleep to speak of for four days. A plane looms up – drops to 90ft, and lets go two bombs. One hits the funnel. The other explodes in the coal in the after hold, Which seems lucky at the time, for the coal absorbs the worst of the blow – and Grimsby trawlers are made to take hard knocks. But the third bomb blows her…
British Restaurant opens in West Wickham – WW2
I chose this one because my mother and Grandmother volunteered there British Restaurant A British restaurant was opened in Glebe Way, West Wickham, on Wednesday. The Mayor of Beckenham, (Alderman W.J. Sampson, J.P.), and Wickham members of the Borough Council attended the opening ceremony. The restaurant faces the new fire station and takes in three or four empty shops in this long row of pre-war shops and flats in tenanted. The Municipal restaurant, by the way, is to be known as “The Yew Tree.” Apparently it is named after the tuckshop…
Kent men in Iceland appeal for more games
Kent Men in Iceland Games of all kinds needed Appeal by the W.V.S. Bromleian’s impressios of the island There are a fair number of Bromley men among the British troops in Iceland. In this island of the North Atlantic ocean, the extreme northerly point of which is touched by the Artic Circle, the summers are short and the winters long, and what the men need especially are games of all kinds. Source: Bromley & District Times, November 1941
Is Your Boy here? Prisoners of War, 1941
This group photo of soldiers being held in a prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1941, was published in the Bromley & District Times in the October, in the hope that some readers might recognise the men featured. It does featured one Lance-Corporal Eric Arthur Eagles, of the Royal West Kent Regiment who resided at 70 Cumberland Road, Bromley, who had been reported as a prisoner of war in Germany. In the photo Lance-Corporal Eagles is standing at the back on the extreme left. Source: Bromley & District Times, 31st…
Lord Croft Watches over Gun Crew, 1941
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft was a decorated British soldier and a Conservative Party politician. In 1940 Croft was appointed by Winston Churchill as Under-Secretary of State for War, a post he would hold until July 1945. In October 1941, Lord Croft visited Bromley and watched over a gun crew at work. Source: Bromley & District Times, 17th October 1941 (page 5)