Air Raids and Other Bombing

Too close for comfort

There was 3 girls on the other side - as my dad saw him coning he could see he was going to...

Our walk to work

My friends and I were walking along the embankment on our way to work... There was machine gunning and...

Recruits Red Day

I remember my first day in 1938, I was in civilian clothes and I though I was standing to attention good....

The Morning After Bomb Raids

The morning after the bomb raids in London I would cycle around looking out for the craters and collecting...

Tea First, Bomb Disposal Second!

Tea First, Bomb Disposal Second. Alf Cardy and colleagues from the 7th Bomb Disposal Company were just on...

My wartime games

I used to play on top of the Anderson shelter with my Mum's umbrella - parachuting off!...

Bang Bang

It was just another day in the war when BANG BANG POW POW SMASH SMASH it was going off everywhere we had...

Crossley Terrace Bomb. as related by Lois Nicholl nee Nuttan

In November 1940 I remember a bomb going off in Halifax at the end of Crossley Terrace....

Memories

I was a baby — born 1941. Remember having to take Ration Book to the Urdd Camp at Llangranog in 1951....

Works shelter hit

On the day that Nottingham got hit, next to our work there was a garage which they kept the vans in for...

Memories of planes

We used to go looking for shrapnel when a plane had crashed. A German plane landed in a garden and they...

forth bridge raid

My mother Christina Landels told me that at the start of the war she was walking with me in the outskirts...

blackpool

Suddenly I heard the bomb bid....

Zeppelins from a dustbin

I was very young when the war started, barely a baby but one thing I do remember is standing on a dustbin...

Shrapnel, Gas Masks & Rationing

My lasting Memory of World War II is… remembering bombs falling and shrapnel falling out....

Tilbury At War

Me and my friend were coming back from the shops, when a German Fighter dive bombed and machine gunned...

Wartime Prayers

A lady who grew up during WW2 recalls there were special days of prayer, called for by the Archbishops. It...

My National Registration Card

We all had a national registration card....

Memories of a housewife

We managed the rations ok and we grew veg in the garden. When a bomb dropped in Purfleet Road it shook the...

When a bomb dropped on Clayton le Moors

My mum worked in the offices at the Bristol Aircraft Corporation in Clayton le Moors near Accrington... My...

Money for the Doctors

BACK THEN YOU HAD TO PAY FOR DOCTORS IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY YOU DIDN'T GET SEEN, I REMEMBER...

Warden by Helen Young

He was at work all day, and every time there was an air raid, he had to put on his Warden uniform...

Reminders now

Whenever there's a thunder and lightening storm now it still reminds me of the shelling, the light and...

Dropping bombs anywhere

Rather than German planes coming home with a load of bombs, they dropped them anywhere, you can still see...

Wartime Wedding.

Wartime Wedding. Victor and Brenda first met on the Isle of Wight where they were both stationed....

WW2 Reminiscence Workshop - Wednesday 23rd June 2004

Would you like to share it with others at a reminiscence workshop. You can book a free place in Sutton...