Air Raids and Other Bombing

Landmarks

Seeing landmarks disappear As it blankets all below, Later, awed and half excited, Gazing at the flickering...

Bomb destroys my bike

I went to look for my bike and I couldn't see it anywhere - also the garden roller had disappeared....

My childhood memories from a Lincolnshire Village

When I was a little girl I remember seeing the soldiers marching up the Bassingham Road in Navenby. The...

bomb at the ball bearing factory

I worked in a factory making ball bearings during the war in Little barrow in essex... After the band...

Wilkinson's Lemonade Factory bombed

Mabel‘s brother was in the Durham Light Infantry — Tommy Clark. Disclaimer: Story submitted by...

Sawston Wartime Memories

I stayed with my mother in Sawston. My father worked at the Paper Mill in Sawston....

Bombing the Bakery in The Meadows, Nottingham

Brenda told me about the time when the bakery, in Meadows Lane in the Meadows district of Nottingham, was...

Wartime Meeting (At the Elephant and Castle)

My mother was expecting me and my wife's mother was pregnant with her and they met in the underground...

Dublin to Coventry during the War

I arrived from Dublin in 1938, aged 20, to marry the man that I loved in Fosehill, Coventry....

Bombing

When I was a boy, I lived in Hermon, Pembrokshire and at night I could see on the horizon the glow from...

Blackout in Castleford

I was a boy living in Castleford when the war broke out... An A.R.P. warden came to the house and said we...

Gas Attack on Hull

As teenage boys, we were well aware of the fact that almost every house in Hull had a gas meter and the...

London on FIre

This memory dates from about 1943, before I was born, but my mother who has now passed away, told me about...

Townmoor Memories

On the town's Town Moor, there was 12 rockets rocket launchers each gun fired at any aircraft... Big...

Black outs

There were no lights, as we had to put up ‘black out’ blinds each night when it got dark, so...

Planes flying over Birmingham

The walls of our house used to bow in when Birmingham was bombed... In Beeston you could see the fires...

Memories of the Manchester Blitz

People later told us it was a German plane and we were told that it had fired on people down near...

Bombers over Ferryhill

Living in Ferryhill around about 1941 I saw hundreds of planes going overhead, it turned out that they were...

School Shelters

The police would round us up or sometimes it would be the air raid wardens... It was when they bombed...

Windows Blown Onto My Cot

I was staying with me grandfather in 39 Standen Road, Southfields, Wandsworth....

The Shimmins war memories.

Mr Shimmin was in the First Battalian of the East Lancashire Regiment- a corporal in the ATS... Mr and Mrs...

Plane crash on Dent Fell near Cleator, Cumbria

He steered the plane over us and crashed into the mountain called “Dent” Somebody on the scene...

Safely Delivered Babies

I remember pregnant mothers being sent from London to be cared for, but I wasn't given extra staff......

Red skies for miles

You can't really imagine being in London during the war — when they bombed the city the sky was...

memories that stay for ever

I was too young to realise the horror of war, but a few memories:- a Getting excited going to a crashed...

Mum's Holy Water and Prayers

My sister and I had been to church, for a bottle of Holy Water, which my mother used to spray all over...