Air Raids and Other Bombing

blitz

Of course because they were in the country they didn't think about Natzi aeroplanes coming their way,...

Ednas Evacuees

We had evacuees to stay, two brothers and one little boy on his own... One of the trainees had been at...

From my story: WW2 when I was five

First Siren in Sheffield

We were billeted in the Sheffield Royal Infirmary....

Neighbour gone

Next door to us there was a young couple — he was a pilot with the Spitfires, when he was home he...

Fighting Fires in Cambridge

There were no phones for firemen so I was the person who called out the firemen by going to their houses,...

Leicester's 'Dad's Army'

I remember watching the Home Guard, practicing manouvers on Sunday mornings. Also, the Fire Warden...

Morrisson Shelter

Being only a child, the only vivid memory I have is the Morrisson shelter that we had in the house....

From my story: WW2 when I was five

Bombed Sites

Until my teens there were always plenty of open spaces in my home town — now known as the City of...

Mother's shoes

I had no shoes to wear, they were worn out, we were always strapped- even the poor ignored us... I had the...

lucky escape

lucky escape...

21st October Bombing

On the night of 21st October 1940, three weeks before the main Blitz, the Germans bombed Coventry. My...

Fighting Fires in Cambridge

Eventually the AFS bought a house in Gwydir Street. I passed the time growing vegetables in the gardening -...

Low flying Bomber

During the war I was working as an auxilliary nurse at Anglesea Road hospital in Ipswich... Shortly...

Memory of the war

I was 20 years old back then and went into the Air Force, I worked in the stores, I lived with my...

Darkness

Before you were called up if you liked it or not, I did not like it at all, food was rationed, there...

Narrow Escape

One night during Easter in 1941 there was a massive air raid - a beautiful moonlit night. Iwas on fire...

An enjoyable childhood

Really enjoyable Childhood a great time to be a child, it was safe to play out on the streets, when the...

Childhood Memories of Eric Pepper

I also remember the sirens and the black-out curtains and running to the air-raid shelter at the bottom of...

Bunk Bed Library

I remember during the Second World War how the lower grounds of Birkenhead Library were transformed into an...

I Went into Labour in an Air Raid Shelter!

I was in an air raid shelter when my labour started, The baby's head was delievered before dad managed...

Our Journey to Liverpool for the Treatment of Ringworm

I went with my mother to Liverpool once every week during 1944 for hospital treatment, for ringworm, and...

3) Watch keepers

3 Watch keepers. Because we were watch keepers we were on at different times — we were on a four week...

Breaching the blackout

I remember my father having to go to court because he had gone out one night and forgotten to turn off the...

During the War

I lived on Church Drive Carrington, I was 8 years old... I went to school in Carrington — we carried...