Air Raids and Other Bombing

From Mock Invasion to Machine Gunned (Pt 2)

Having ventured upstairs to look out of the front bay window, he reported that the skyline was ablaze on...

Bristol Boys at War

These old boys were in fact young boys aged 15 to about 17 and on some Saturdays some of these boys, of...

A Little Overtime Work

Ted on many occasions rode home with anti-aircraft shell splinters pinging off the pavements as he passed....

The Bombing Raids Over Portsmouth by Sydney Johnson

A line of bombs was dropped right across the centre of Portsmouth and I remember the columns of smoke and...

Childhood Memories

I lived with my mother and father Frank and Gladys Byfleet, and younger brother Roy, and my grandmother Mrs...

Holmewood:Air Raids, Bombs and Rationing.

Alan and his family were living on Hardwick Street in Holmewood and, in common with many people across...

Further Wartime Memories of Biddenham, Bedfordshire

Keith was a friend of mine and Steve was the main percussion player for the BBC Symphony Orchestra that was...

Beryls Story

Beryl's College was evacuated to Birmingham and also many parents sent their children to the Lake...

Jenny's Memories

My maternal grandfather owned the Pavilion Picture House in Forfar, and picture houses in Glasgow and...

Memories of Air Crashes in Lincolnshire

They drew the blackout curtains and we saw that a Hampden bomber had crashed into St Matthias church...

Hard Hit

I was 11 years old when the second world war started and I lived in Southampton with my mother and father,...

My Childhood Near Pocklington Airfield

Pocklingtom was subject to cannon attack several times, probably by bombers which had dropped all their...

A Teenager's War

In about 1943 or early 1944 I recall walking around Torquay harbour with a girl friend in the afternoon...

All the Nurses Disappeared-

The reason the enemy found the area so interesting, was because there was the railway, which of course was...

Village Life in Word War Two (the early years)

It was said by the villagers that the bomber was trying to hit Little Barford power station but mistook our...

My Memories Of The Blitz

So he booked us into the Regent Palace Hotel for the night... All the hotel guests spent the night on the...

Memories of My Childhood

Of our class sitting along the benches in the gloom trying to do lesions and dashing across to the canteen...

Ankle-deep in soot

My earliest memory connected with the war was in April 1942 when the enemy dropped bombs on York Station,...

Memories of Holmewood, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Lucy and Rose's parents owned the chip shop in Holmewood; their sales were boosted greatly by the...

One Child's War Part 4 A School at War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It appeared that early that morning, after the air-raid which we had had the previous night, a German...

A Child from Burgess Hill During World War 2

During the blitz on London German aircraft would fly over head, the air raid siren having sounded almost as...

A Wartime Child

Mum used to invite the soldiers into the cottage for meals and tea and I, as a toddler, would be taken out...

Uncle Jim - a second postscript

Then Andrew photographed me and Philippe beside Jim's... As I explained to Philippe, on my previous...

Morrison Table Shelter

My youngest brother did survive the war, thanks to Mum and Dad, whether any the wiser I do not know, but...

Pram Cinema

The selected shelters were visited every week,I mind we gave a show in Brayards road peckham a railway arch...

My Memories of the War

I made it to Birmingham and it was decided that Mary and the children should come home to Liverpool. We...