COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

Dutchman Hi, Near the end of 1938 looked certain of war, so IRA got in touch with Germany: "We could do great damage to England if we had the money or weapons." Feb 1939: German Parachutist dropped in to Dublin, with 22 thousand USA Dollars and several W/transmitters. The IRA built a time-...

Kaga and the water-cooled Vickers machine-gun that was part of the legend in 1945...

There was a coach and horses road from Bulkington to Foleshill through by Hawkesbury Lane and Hawkesbury Hall and Parratts Grove (16th century spelt) to Foleshill, but there was a side-road where a great castle, church and monastery stood but was destroyed in the civil wars of the Disolution by the ...

From Exhall Colliery to Broadgate over a century ago there were many heaths. These were very full of scattered gorse and dog-rose bushes. The thorns of these were ideal for small birds like linnets and warblers to nest in. This brought the Hawks to feed on the small birds learning to fly so it was c...

About two weeks after V.E. Day three troop-trains slipped into Euston Station: a US, a Canadian and a Brit, on their way to the coast. As soon as the Yanks saw the Canadians someone yelled out "They are going to pinch our ships", and all hell broke out. They had the biggest punch-up you ca...

Hi yes, one hundred and sixty thousand French troops were saved at Dunkirk. I think once I read that a thousand German paras were dropped on Holland? If so, at app. twenty to a plane, that must have been a terrifying sight to your grand-parents? Much worse than Coventry blitz by a mile. I still say ...

THE DAY OF THE JACKAL The date of the book alone tells me it could not have been written before 197O, let me explain: 1945 THE WAR OFFICE thinking there may be other conflicts came up with a 25 year plan of survival, they placed all forces on a reserve list. This meant just a telegram and they all w...

There was a guy named SNOW four years before ZIG-ZAG, he also was a double agent, won a German iron cross, fed by M15 but ZIG-ZAG was Britain's most wanted man, top safe-cracker, the police hot on his tail he escaped to the channel isles, where the police had no way to touch him. On VE day the SAS R...

When I was found amongst the rubble of Barclays Bank and the dead and dying, shipping office of the Med, the huge oil tanks in the dockyard had already been blown up, scaring many thousands of rats. This was thought to have caused bubonic plague. Big, long tanks of DDT were placed down the streets p...

The Midland Daily Telegraph printed their own story of the Blitz, but were not allowed to publish. CENSORED till 1948, this tells us there were no Coventry fire tenders near the Cathedral, it was the Solihull Brigade that tended the Cathedral, and if 75 thousand pets had been put down, there were no...