Air Raids and Other Bombing

Wartime Schooldays

What had happened was that a small bomb had dropped outside a house nearly opposite and blown the front off...

Growing Up during the War

Another plan was put into action whereby we, the older girls each had to take two younger children out of...

Intrinsicall Woven Memories

The air raid warnings were a daily event and bombs dropping, as Enemy planes flew overhead en route to the...

My Wartime Memories 1939-1948

My Father who grew fruit and vegetables and sold them to his customers in the Chapel area of Southampton, I...

From Downham to Shepton Beauchamp

We were sent to Somerset, perhaps on the same train as Michael Aspel, as he went to Chard, quite close to...

Through the Eyes of a Child

Although I was too young to feel frightened of what was happening around me in London, clearly my parents...

Air Raid Precautions in Ballymena

Quite a lot of churches held their evening services in the halls as it was virtually impossible to blackout...

Not in a Cellar

Jimmy Rich or ‘Our Jim’, as he was affectionately known by his family, was proud of his home...

WRVS Fatality

We lay our wreath in remembrance of the 261 members of the WRVS who were killed on duty in the Second World...

The war at home

The day it started, it was a Sunday, my mother went by car to Harrogate, with my young brother, to be safe...

Memories of Childhood Days during the War

Father:John Alec Sidwell, RAF Sargeant 1545286 during the war Mother: Florence May Sidwell...

Through the Eyes of an Ossett Girl

I was then a pupil at Spa Street Primary School down Baptist Lane, Spa Street, Ossett and one of my...

My World War 2 Experience

By the side of the co-op stores, now Scats stood an air raid warden, when we said where we lived, directed...

Backyard crisis

The day before war broke out I was evacuated from East London to Maidstone, Kent to stay with an elderly...

Celebrating My Birthday During an Air-Raid in Portsmouth by Sydney Johnson

I have reason to remember the date because it was my Birthday on the 8th March and my Mother had sent me...

Urban Legend

Off to bed, Ken boy” she said “a good night's sleep is what you need” The strangest...

The Day The Bomb Parachuted into My Garden

In World War 11 my parents’ home was nearer the docks and all the bombing and they thought it would...

A landmine falls on Norton Street, Old Trafford by "David"

There were two houses, our house and the house next door, and the landmine had landed in the road outside...

My Memories of the Second World War: In Weston-Super-Mare

My cousin has a photograph of him holding her eldest brother as a baby with tufts of hair growing out of...

The Saga of the Gloucester City

One summer afternoon a group of children from Fowey Grammar School were at Whitehouse taking part in what...

I Remember

Sometimes we slept under the stairs, us two children tucked at the back of the cupboard and Mum and Dad...

The Life and Times of Wartime 'Kids' of East London

Well,we had some adventures,sliding down this sewer bank, on bit's of tin we found.Only to find,after a...

My Memories Of The Second World War Years

Then my Mother got a job as a usherett at the Odeon Cinema in Sutton Coldfield. Straight from school I had...

A Near Miss

At the outbreak of World War II I was 9 years old and lived in The Avenue, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead and...

Joshua Mulholland's War Childhood in Belfast

Trinity Church was bombed one night and at the back of us Eglinton and Carlisle Street was practically...

Memories of Pamela Ford, a Londoner from Wandsworth

Pamela and her sister were evacuated to an aunt's at Melbourn near Duxford, where they attended school....