Air Raids and Other Bombing

Air Raids

This mountain had been formed by chemical waste, and was not solid, but springy, and considered to be...

Margaret Nicholls, Part 1 - The bomb shelter

As my father had been in the trenches in France in the first World War, he and a friend dug an oblong...

Dorothy Hallett's Story

Between 1938 and 1943 we lived - first of all - in the Gardener's Cottage at Boughspring House and then...

My Memories

I was 12 years old when the war started and stayed in Southampton right through it, I lived with my parents...

My Mothers War

During the war my Mum remained at the childrens home opposite the graveyard in Egham Staines... After that...

Home to Find the House Gone

I was on a night out with some of the other girls who worked with me at Reavells in Ranelagh Road, and...

Memories as an Evacuee

I was with a school friend called Billy Roberts, when a woman came up to me and said, “I'll have...

Working in the Laundry

I was working in the Co-op laundry in Wallsend when war broke out, so that's where I stayed because...

Joyce Wilson's Memories

I was evacuated to Greenaffield in Mold and billeted with a couple with two small children in a cottage...

Experiences at Home during WW2

As Germany's bombing offensive intensified, we lived directly under the flightpath to Liverpool...

Escaping from the bombs

My father said that it would be safer if my mother drove the four children up to the Lake District, and...

WWW2 - Childhood Memories of Holborn

My memories of that school was that very few lessons were held, and that most of our time was spent...

War Memories from Birmingham

I was sent for training at a pleasant farm in Wormleighton, Warwickshire with other girls and we learned to...

"The Miracle on Wycliffe Road"

Before I could move, the whole window frame in my bedroom, glass, wood and bricks came flying out and...

Len Smith's Bomb Disposal Experiences During World War 2

Liuetnant Brevis managed to move the bomb into the shaft and get it to be pulled by the Derrick cranes......

Childish Memories in Cornwall

To me, Cornwall was ‘Safety’ - London was ‘Danger’ therefore, my memories are just...

Wartime Memories

My mum, sister and I shovelled sand and earth over some of the bombs and managed to open the chicken shed...

First Dream

There was a German prisoner of war camp approximately one mile from where I lived on the outskirts of...

Those Time-Bombs

But before we got that, after the first few months of the blitz we slept in the London underground, usually...

Evacuation

David was ill all the time we were there znd after a lot of thought my mother wnet back home with him,...

War Diaries ( part1)

The following notes are excerpts from the diaries of Jozef Massart who left Mechelen on the 13th of May...

Boyhood Memories of WWII

I am Lewis Atkinson and I was born in Aycliffe Village, County Durham in 1934. My father, John Atkinson,...

"The Day The War Broke out"

We heard the noise of aircraft and it looked like the Luftwaffe were bombing Slough, one aircraft broke...

Dodging the Bombs

However, the government commandeered parts of the factory in 1939 and we began to manufacture smoke bombs,...

Headless Chickens

I lived at Perivale in the district of Ealing, which was on the west side of London, and the first bombs to...

Childhood Memories of WW2

He saw no point in my mother and me remaining in Birmingham with all the horrors that were to follow so we...