A lamp bought for just 50p at a church fete turned out to be an ingenious device that helped the Allies bring about the downfall of the Nazi regime in the Second World War. The beacon lamp was used to ...

I was ten years old when war was declared in 1939. Living on a farm in South Derbyshire with my Father, Mother, and 8 year old brother. My mother put sticky tape on all the windows and made blackout ...