This upload features unique and never broadcast in the UK, footage of a short interview with HMS Repulse survivors whom had escaped from Singapore in early 1942. My late father, Ted Matthews, is one of [more]
My mother was a Red Cross volunteer stationed at the 129th General Hospital in Overton-on-Dee in 1945. She wrote long, descriptive letters home, which I have donated to the WW2 US Medical Research Centre in [more]
A year in the life of Victoria Junior School Sept94-July95. Street and school party in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War Two. To add names use our contact form stating [more]
DOUGLAS D ALDERSON 1919 – 1944 ELIZABETH JONES DIED 1934 AGED 73 GEORGE JONES DIED 1939 AGED 77 Douglas Alderson was the second son of Thomas Alderson and Minnie Jones who had married on 21 [more]
Albert Edward EVANS was born in 1910. His father George Albert Evans and mother Elizabeth Ann Evans resided at 38, Hill Street, Lodge, Brymbo at the time of his birth. Albert was married to Gladys [more]
VE Day in Wrexham 1945 was celebrated in the High Street where thousands of locals gathered.
Europe was at war and bombing raids by the Luftwaffe were frequent. In the early hours of August 30, 1940, German bombers were heading for Liverpool and dockland sites on the River Mersey. In an [more]
In an effort to draw German planes away from the heavily populated and strategically important areas of Wrexham, the men of the home guard would make their way to the nearby uninhabited mountains and light [more]
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