Air Raids and Other Bombing

FRATERNISING WITH THE ENEMY!

My Mum Emma had her family visiting one day during the war. The plane was a German one, and it turned out...

Air raid in Hyson Green

I remember, in about 1940 when I was just a baby, being taken down into the vaults of the TSB at the...

Leaking Gas Mask

I went into a hut to test my gasmask and I found it was leaking gas very badly. I was ushered outside...

Dinah's Story

As children, my brother, sister and myself were mesmorised by her wild memories... And these were tales...

"Barrage Balloon came a knocking !"

"Barrage Balloon came a knocking ! One night when I was in Birmingham, something came knocking at my...

Air raids

Foolishly thinking we'd be safer!.. Often we found shrapnel and used to keep it as souveniers....

Hole in the Roof. As told by Peter Huges.

On my way home from school a lady stopped me and asked - "What's that big hole in your roof"? I...

The Air Raid Siren

There goes the siren Nice and early Really makes your hair go curly On with the helmet On with the boots On...

Heard a V! rocket

A V1 came over and he heard it stop. It landed in the next street....

Anti Gas mask cream

I worked at Boots making Anti gas mask cream as well as gas masks....

Life at home in ww2 - blackout

I was putting up the blackouts one night when a lone enemy raider plane came, guns after him... A friend...

A New Cinema

We returned lorry loads of seating and projectors from bombed cinemas in London. We made a cinema with two...

Land mines in the gasometer

Lived in Liverpool during the war and my father was an ARP Warden. A lot of people were bombed out of the...

A Quiet One

My war was a very quiet one except for one experience which was excitingbut not fatal! The German bombers...

Barnes Wallis And The Dambusting And other Bombs

Barnes Wallis And The Dambusting And other Bombs...

Calum's Nan

During the war, my nan was in her house sitting under the table and when a bomb came down... The house got...

Blue Stone Avenue

I was walking down Norton bank about 9.00pm returning home to Smallthorne from a WEA class when I watched...

In the shelters every night

At the bottom of my yard at my house we'd go in the shelter — every night the sirens went off...

Railway Station Bomb

A bomb landed near the railway station in Bedford. It lifted the roofs off the nearby houses, sucking out...

The Warden’s Christmas Party

My lasting Memory of World War II is…I was a warden in the ARP....

My mother being chased by a German machine gunner

I can remember my mum running along the road holding my baby sister - as she ran she was being machine...

Gas Attack

We regularly heard the sirens and one day everyone down East Street thought there was a gas attack - we all...

The Belfast Blitz

My granny lay in bed all day and an air warden come round to said the German planes were coming with bombs...

Lancashire Remembers

On the night of April 21st, i was in the kitchen baking one of my famous apple and sugar pie....

Fire Fighters

Me and my friend, worked at Enderley Mill in Newcastle, Staffs....

Great Uncle J Arrol Crerar

Captured in Tobruck,North Africa by Germans on....