Air Raids and Other Bombing

Delphine of the Dings War - Bath 1941—1942

It was a pity my Bristol school, and school friends were now in Clevedon but no matter, I could walk to...

A Child's War in Tottenham

Sometimes we would stand in the doorway, having turned out the living room gaslight and watch as the...

The Shelter

My husband John was an engineer and working on the radar system at Beckenham in Kent... A bomb had landed...

Dad's Near Miss

My Dad, George Braybrook, worked for a record company, Oriole Records, who were based in New Bond Street....

Canvey Island — Early War Memories

There were other places on Canvey that held anti aircraft guns, machine guns and searchlights, one at the...

Schoolboy War Experiences in Wolverhampton

One day, the sky, as usual, had plenty of trainer aircraft such as Tiger Moths, Airspeed Oxfords and Avro...

War at The Green

Mum, my sister and I were standing by the wide-open bedroom window watching Ack-ack explosions and tracer...

Luftwaffe Attacks on Winson Green

My father told us a bomb had fallen into the canal water but hadn't exploded, but two had just totally...

Playing Tipcat and Other Tales

I shouldn't really tell you this but if anyone left an old pram out we'd have the wheels and axles...

My memories of WWII

My Mother Isobel, would go and buy Ron's favourite and we would walk out to RAF Filton, the aeroplanes...

My Father's War in the Village of Plawsworth

One was the son of a lady in the village and he was shell-shocked after a submarine was hit. German...

Eccles to Gollin Gate 1940

When the bombing over Manchester became an everynight occurance it was decided to evacuate my gandma and...

War Comes to Welney

German planes tried to bomb the Welney Suspension Bridge... We were instructed that after it was dark we...

Air Raid Recollections of WW2

The other crew members from the plane were Feldwebel Franz Olssen - Navigator, Gefreiter Hans Schiealinski...

Childhood Memories in Leicester

My Dad was aged thirty nine at the outbreak of war, and was, thus, above military age, I have a very clear...

Jean Claughton's War

There were Italian prisoners in Whitefriars and German prisoners in Hellifield Pele. As a minister, my...

A Schoolgirl in Wartime London

My father did fire watching duties several nights a week and was outside the shelter one night, ready to go...

Damage from Bomb in Next Street, and Possible Later Consequences.

We lived in what I discovered later in life was a desirable three-bedroomed detached house called Earlham...

The Pilot and the Six Inch Rule

I cycled to Weybridge station, a mile and a half from Vickers aircraft factory. I heard a German bomber...

Evacuated From Liverpool And Back Again

Mary Pritchard nee Stewart was always known as “Maisie”, was born in Everton, in Liverpool on...

Memories of a Six Year Old

I can remember us waiting for the air raid siren to go and my dad would wrap me in a blanket and...

My First Orange

We had Belgian fishermen who talked a strange way; air raid warning sirens that at night meant a night...

Wartime Landmine Disaster in Paisley Remfrewshire May 1941 - part 2

At Greenock, the Tate and Lyle sugar refinery had already been bombed that night and the blaze was so...

Memories of the War From a Young Woman in India by Joan Wakefield (nee Cambay)

To the reader this sounds not at all like war, there were lighter moments, for instance there was the funny...

Coming Home during an Air Raid

Many people also felt that when Swansea suffered bombing raids the Fire Service attended businesses in the...

The Day the Bomb Fell on Clarence Place, Bath.

My father was asleep after his munitions night shift, not knowing a bomb was right outside his window; we...