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When Hitler's Bomb failed to go off.

My mother, Christina L.J.Oliver, told me this story about the night my family was nearly wiped out during...

The First Air Raids: Being a Schoolboy during WW2

During the Second World War, my father was a little boy growing up in East Yorkshire in the city of Hull....

A Change Of Clothes

Mum and I, with Blanche in the pram set off to the top of 25th Avenue. I did as I was told...

A Yorkshire Child's View of Air Raids

The men were standing against the walls, the women were holding the babies and us children sat on the...

VE Day Memories of Catherine Patience (then 2052476 LACW Catherine Raddings WAAF)

My first posting was to the radar station at Danby Beacon near Whitby. Everyone who wasn't serving on a...

'Don't Blame Me'. Childhood Memories of an Air Raid

As a nine year old village boy I played out in the street, with the loan of my school mate Raymond...

Evacuated from Grimsby to Welton-le-marsh and Back Again

Mrs Bush and her husband lived in a large cottage in Mill Lane in Welton-le-Marsh and I have happy memories...

In Hull and Iraq in WW2

He said "it was wicked taking them from their mothers" Hull again - walking past the Palace Theatre...

A City in Flames: Hull, As Seen Through a Child's Eyes

Searchlights were busily raking the sky, slanting around the cloudscapes looking for enemy planes which,...

Marriage in 1943

We married at Newland St. Johns Church in Hull... My friend asked whether my father was a ‘Special...

My Uncle Bob's War: In Hull

There was a lot of bombing during the war in Hull and his dad built a brick bomb shelter with bunk beds...

The Party

Dad, who was a full time warden, gave instructions to come straight back home and NOT to go to the Brick...

Birthday Greetings from Adolf

At that time I was living in Estcourt Street with my parents and twin brother Gordon, my sister's Amy...

Raids on the East Coast

RAF Leconfield Aerodrome was about 3 miles away and one Saturday I was out shopping in Beverley with mum...

War-time and My Growing Family! by Alice Lowry

He was then stationed out in Italy and our third baby, a boy, was born in 1943... As the war ended, we...

A Long Wait for My Wedding

I think that was the 19th June and we got married on the 25th June at Beverley Minster by special licence....

The bombing of Hull and Goole

The bombing of Hull and Goole...

Disjointed Memories: A Child in Hull

- my parents were both deaf; our next door neighbour who was an ARP warden was given a key to our house...

'Make Do and Mend': A Schoolboy's Experience

During the Second World War, my father was a little boy growing up in East Yorkshire in the city of Hull....

Landmine on Sutton

I rescused my cycle from the debris of the garden shed and rode off to Wawne to fetch my great-uncle and I...

Story - Maud

The war at the time didn't affect Maud when she was younger but she is now scared of lightening and...

Everyday Life on the Home Front

"The house in Cambridge Terrace was a two up / two down, my parents having one bedroom and my sister...

Civil Defence - First Aid

His father was a volunteer with the East Yorkshire Regt volunteer brigade and Dad wanted to join as well....

A Daylight Raid: In Hull

Suddenly without any warning, a German plane dived down out of the sky and started machine-gunning us......

A Woman's War

My first three weeks training was in Newcastle, before being accepted for driver training. After my...

The Spy with the Hearing Aid

One evening when he was taking his customary stroll along the seafront for a breath of fresh air, he was...