Air Raids and Other Bombing

Pattiswick in 1940

Petrol was not rationed at that time so Dad took us alI his huge Essex Super Six to see the plane. My...

Childhood Dramas

There had been a Samuel Jones paper factory just round the corner and that had been bombed and caught fire....

Volunteering for the W.A.A.F.

When I asked what the job entailed I was told it was either watching a radar screen with an arrow circling...

My WW2 Memories in Darwen

The Monday morning began as normal, with Dad and myself walking with a hand truck into Darwen town centre,...

Events Remembered by a Young Boy

We used to stand and watch the German bomber squadrons arriving over Guildford, Surrey in 1941/42 and use...

Hospitality to the Forces

There were several houses around me used for accommodating particularly the ATS girls and unfortunately,...

Near Miss 2

Last Wednesday, the 10th November 2004, my wife and I were meeting two of our six grandchildren from their...

A Rare Find - A Female Cartographer

My cousin in Nursling heard that they were taking on 12 women and would train them in the drawing office......

Gone But Not Forgotten

Then in March 1941, a German a bomb completely destroyed our home in Luckington Rd, Horfield, Bristol......

Incendiaries of Fire

One Saturday I was with my mum queuing outside the butchers' shop there was always a long queue and...

Living on Anlaby Road during the early 1940's.

In 1940, my father became the caretaker at Bourne methodist church on Anlaby Road. My bags were packed...

Close Encounters: Unexploded Bombs and Crashing Aircraft in Surrey

With my brother Bob having been the first in our family to suffer a near miss when the falling...

Mother and her Messcherschmitt

My Father was in the Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment, a platoon sergeant, and at this time he and his...

Rat-a-tat-tat

I remember we had blackout curtains and brown paper strips on windows to help prevent flying glass when the...

The Met Office and Bombs in a Field

To us at the time, it was something of a mystery but after the war the camouflage was removed, the huts and...

My Grandma's Memories

My grandma's house was picked, and so she remembers how there were lots of children, of different ages,...

ARP Heavy Rescue Squad

In 1939 my dad, Bert Feebery, was a carpenter working for Beckenham council, a leafy suburb on the...

Surviving the Attack on Chislet, October 1942

In the autumn of 1942 my mother was walking from Highstead to Chislet pushing my sister Carole in a pram....

'A Night to Remember'

On the evening of Thursday.13th:March.1941 at 18-00hrs: the Air aid Sirens sounded: Meaning an attacck was...

Failsworth Bomb

There was an unexploded bomb in the field opposite the office so no-one was allowed near... We then took...

Savings Weeks, Competitions, School Parties and Messerschmitts

Others were: - A “Link Trainer” used for basic and blind flying tuition by the R.A.F., this was...

The Forties to 2005

Poems I have written have been broadcast on BBC Radio and are on view at the Petwood Hotel, Thorpe Camp,...

MY War by Margaret Bagley (Nee Berry)

Our house had all the windows blown in and the broken glass had got mixed up with the food in the pantry,...

Village War Recollections

While on the bus I saw a low flying aircraft dropping a bomb which bounced near the ruins in Cowdray Park...

The September Bombing at Filton Aircraft Factory

The Dorniers went on to bomb the Filton Airfield, and my uncle Arthur Bailey, mother's brother, was...

Hot Tea & Hard Floors

My Mum carried my baby sister in her arms, and as we ran the sirens seemed to get louder and louder, we...