Air Raids and Other Bombing

Pat's story - 1943

He was a fireman and one weekend he was stationed on fire watch at the White-House in Minster on the Isle...

Sleeping in the Garden

During the war I lived in Greenford in Middlesex. The main thing I remember about the war is that every...

Anderson Shelter.

Visting Hampton Court Flower Show and seeing the anderson shelter in the garden, brought back memories of...

VE Day Bonfire

I lived at Raithlin Street in Govan, what I do remember about that evening was the big bonfire they had in...

Images of War (Wrenbury Remembers P.22)

There are abiding images of war that from the First World War was, of course, those trenches, but also the...

Bomber shot down!

During one air raid a german bomber was shot down, and the pilot bailed out using his paracute. The...

Secret Nurse

This is a photo of my Aunt Violet Betty Harrison. She was a nurse during the war in the Midlands....

Our Anderson Shelter

We'd take it down to the anderson shelter at about 6 o'clock....

Passed on memories

Unfortunately, after my birth the mid - wife went back to her hostel and in the bombing raid that followed,...

The first time I saw a Banana

I tried to cut the banana open along it's length and my dad then showed me how to do it properly....

The Day War Broke Out

My Mother was in the garden talking to the lady next door... I went out into the garden and told my mother...

The Story of James Dale

I knocked on the door of Joseph McIntosh....

One Banana

I remember one day when I was eight, my Dad came home with a banana ....

Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt5

This photograph relates to the following story entries: A5561976 A5562362 A5562506 A5562597 A5562687....

Sitting Casualties

I was instructed however that I could only get permission to run the car if I were prepared to pick up what...

Long Eaton guns

They had guns in Long Eaton near where I lived....

OLD BUSHMILLS

Margaret remembers when she was a very young girl sitting outside York Street Railway Station drinking a...

VE Day as a Medical Student

I was courting a nurse, and I was a medical student. We were in Kent, and we were cycling through the...

Birthday Cake

My ninth Birthday was on VE night when I lived in Drummond Street, Townhead. While out celebrating, someone...

Planes

I can remember planes returning to the local airfields with holes in their wings and asking my father why...

Falmouth Docks Bombing

We were living at Chiverton Arms, having moved from the Philleigh area to Blackwater on 19.12.1940. Looking...

Unused shelters

The Anderson shelter at Chester-Le-Street wasn't used during air raids, instead the family sat round...

WW2 Bombing in my Town

It was a soundless night and i've just been to my local shops with my ration book and brought some eggs...

Lilian Grundy - my story

My lasting memory of world war 2 working at munitions at AV Rose on lancaster bombers Manchester. I did...

I survived

During the war I was in the RAF and fought as a gunner. I was hit in one attack and badly injured....

A.T.S

Miss Olive Giles is seated first on the left....