Air Raids and Other Bombing

School Memories

I remember standing in the school playground and hearing a doodlebug — and unnamed plane loaded with...

Special Siren Suits

A bomb fell three doors away from our house in Norris Green, but didn't go off. The bomb was meant for...

HOME GUARD DEFENDING BARROW SHIPYARD

During the war, Alex was a schoolboy living in Barrow-in-Furness. Alex often saw columns of Home Guard...

Bombing of Bath St, Brighton

We were walking along Dyke Road, and I heard the bombers come over - they were aiming for the Viaduct on...

Incendiaries

Told by John McManus to East Ayrshire Library Staff... I went over to the edge of the ground to retrieve...

Life near Alexandra Park, Ipswich

The Black Sky It was a clear day and we were playing on Alexandra Park....

We got out just in time!

We were bombed out of our home on St. Mary's Street... Once a fire bomb came right into the cellar....

Worthing Invasion Precautions

Down some of the roads in Worthing that had high sides, the Home Guard dug in barrels of some sort of...

LONDON BLITZ

I was a child, 12 years old and the bombers came over and set the docks alight... I used to be told...

Bombing

He was involved in bombing Dresden... My husband used to have terrible nightmares over what he was having...

Waiting for the All Clear

Later we found out that one family, who were friends of ours from school, had gone back into their house...

The Gloria

A cinema — the Gloria — opened in 1938 near where I lived and as the films changed three times...

WW2 in Rotherham

When there was a raid on he used to disappear and patrol outside looking for incendiary bombs but thats...

Gladys Waring

Our duty was to take friends to the air raid shelter then 'parade the streets to put out the incendary...

Memories of Childhood

When I was a small boy approximatly 9 years of age I can remember a bomb dropping near a water tower...

Ricochet Revolver

I remember my dad telling me a story about the police who were called to man the ‘Gun Post’......

The Flying Bomb over Hull

I wasn't evacuated from National Avenue, Hull which was on the outskirts of the city at the time and...

When the Cows Come Home

Myself and John the Farm Baliffs son were gathering the farms cattle from one field and moving them to the...

Empire Day

I was 8 years old and I wa evacuated from Birmingham to Wessendon Farm, Woolhope, Herefordshire. My mom...

Better than the First World War

We got bombed three times, they used to drop mines on land and sea... Food rations were better than in the...

ANDERSON SHELTERS

In about 1940 the bombing in London really started, we had an Anderson Shelter in the back garden and when...

Resucing Meat

When we got there we had to drag the meat out with the fire / rescue teams, everything we could get out...

Driving the Brigadier

I was Brigadier Hordern's driver for 4 years at the Military College of Science, Stoke-On-Trent. My...

‘Bullets Bent, New Sent’

I started work at the age of 14 at ICT, Witton, Birmingham, which was known to the workers and locals as...

Whole Lotta Shakin Going on

We were evacuated to the Handsworth hotel, and I remember feeling the building shake....

A Mother’s Premonition

I was obsessed with football like most boys, especially on a Saturday morning at Garston Park, where there...