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Wendy Percival
Oct 6, 20182 min read
#WW2 Secrets of the Scilly Isles
This blog has fallen silent recently as I've been away holidaying on Tresco, one of the islands of the beautiful Isles of Scilly. I...
Wendy Percival
Jul 4, 20182 min read
#WW2 bomb nightmare - my aunt's story
You may recall that on this blog recently I wrote the story of my mum Pat's terrifying experience of having a WW2 incendiary bomb drop at...
Wendy Percival
Jun 19, 20182 min read
A compelling #WW2 read
I’ve had Kathryn Gauci’s book, Conspiracy of Lies, on my TBR list for a while. After researching WW2’s Special Operations Executives for...
Wendy Percival
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Terror of a #WW2 bomb - was Jack to blame?
As children we loved to hear our mum tell her childhood story of the night she was almost killed and our gran's bravery in saving her....
Wendy Percival
May 12, 20181 min read
A day of celebration during 3 years of incarceration
After falling off a wall when he was about 7 years old and damaging his hip, my dad spent almost 3 years in Standon Hall Orthopaedic & TB...
Wendy Percival
Apr 24, 20182 min read
Unravelling the #WW2 mystery
The family story goes, that during WW2, Winston Churchill attended a secret meeting at The Foxhills, (left) the house where my...