Air Raids and Other Bombing

FOLLWED ON A BIKE

This story was told to me by my mother Margaret E. Healey. She told us that during one air raid in Coventry...

Plane Crash and parachute clothes

The mother who could sew well kept the parachute from the crash and made the three daughters clothes from...

Trapped

My grandfather worked in Malta which was heavily bombed during the war because it was surrounded by German...

Bomb in the Garden

As a toddler, we came to Leicester to escape the bombs in London. One night a bomb was dropped on the...

A Happy Life

He was called into the Navy where he stayed for seven and a half years and served on lots of ships...

Unexploded Bombs

Frequently German bombs were dropped which didnt explode. In a house along the main road of Hook a two...

Chalk aeroplanes

As kids we had never seen aeroplanes before apart from when flying over our house. We would run out to the...

A Girl in a Sportscar?!

Buckfast Abbey Car Park became a saw mill for pit props... I remember the manageress drove a BSA Sports...

My Father

His name was John William Robson and before the war he was a horse keeper at Chilton Colliery....

Too young for the Job.

I was 7 years old in 1944 and we lived in Hornchurch very near to the aerodrome.We had experienced many...

Back Garden Bomb

He was told that there was a bomb in the back garden....

Air Raid Warden's Reference Book: Scotland

This ARP Warden's reference book is housed in the Kevin Morrison Collection a Special Collection in the...

LAND ARMY F.A.N.Y

POOR ADMIN, IF ONLY PRO HEADQUESS GOT AID THROUGH ILL HEATH.WERE TO WASH IN THE DARK... 2 YRS TILL 1945-...

Fighting in the air

I was able to watch the Doodle Bugs flying over heading to London and V2's. On this occasion one got...

The Professor's Dugout

During part of the war, when I was 18, I worked in Oxford for Professor Florey who pioneered the use of...

Fish and chips- A matter of life or death.

I was on my way back from the fish and chip shop on Hen Lane, Coventry, when bullets started to come down...

Blitz in Blackpool

It was a dark night and I was cycling home from work, when I heard a massive bang and a crash... Then...

The night Mother caught a German

Quickly my Mother shut the door and shouted for my Grandfather to fetch the police as she'd caught a...

WAAF BARRAGE BALLONS

I am writing about my mother who was the WAAF.And was trained as a winch driver on ballons.And posted to...

Living with the Germans - air raids

Occasionally one was caught in an air raid, not usually bombing but American aircraft would come over to...

Lucky Escape

My eldest sister was married and I was the youngest child in our family, aged seven. My eldest sister is 90...

From Ireland for the War

I arrived in Coventry from Ireland in 1940 and remember the bombs falling. My cousin Bill O' Donahaugh...

Bomb explosion

A neighbour said ‘look out — here she comes’ and one bomb dropped outside our house in...

A Wave from a German Pilot

When I was 11years old I was playing in a field with 3 or 4 mates and a German plane flew low...

At Bingley College

We would practise using the air raid shelters but never had a raid and I then went to college on the Ilkley...

Air Raid Wardens of Dorchester.

Air Raid Wardens of Dorchester. Whilst Freda Wade was serving in the WREN'S with the Far Eastern Fleet,...