Air Raids and Other Bombing

Staying One Ahead of the Bombs

And near the YMCA there was a long wooden hut which used to be the church hut, and they'd taken over...

Eileen's War

On nights when the air-raid siren sounded my mother insisted we came downstairs fully dressed and went into...

Wartime Memories

We also had an older brother, he was 17 and rushed off to join up, but was sent home 'until he was...

Through Toddler's Eyes

Radio programmes such as Kitchen Front, Elsie & Doris Waters as Gert & Daisy, exhorted housewives...

Not Too Old To Knit

When Alderman H. Collar, Mayor of Heston and Isleworth in 1939 made an appeal to the burgesses to knit...

A Memory of the Blitz

I had a twenty one year old sister who was a nurse with the Civil Defence Ambulance and was stationed at...

A Child's War

There were Italian POWs at Cockley Cley, who made snake rings and bracelets for the kids. We had two...

Keep Your Hair On!

Right on cue, the air raid warning siren went off and we all had to depart into our air raid shelters, poor...

A Child's View

Mother got us out of bed when the air raid sirens went and put us all under the long wooden kitchen table...

Air Raid Shelters

On her return she said she had rented the corner of a field from Mr Ford, a farmer, along with two chicken...

War in the Hertfordshire Countryside

Two North London schools were evacuated to Abbots Langley, and my father suggested that my mother to accept...

A Day We Will Never Forget

By the time the news had reached Garner's Garage on Scalford End where Dad was a fitter it was rumoured...

My 'Near Miss' 1

All outside around windows, Brickwork over Front Door Replaced, Plastering etc Sitting Room, Small Bedroom,...

The St Marychurch Bombing — 30th May 1943

I was asked if I would like to go to the WVS centre which was a hotel opposite the church, namely the...

One Thursday Afternoon

Tunbridge Wells did not survive the war unscathed, with notorious bombs dropping on Woolworth's and up...

From Coventry to Butlins By Charles Cook

The following year my family moved to Earl Shilton in Leicestershire and the closest I came to being bombed...

WRVS Bembridge Report

Telephone request received from Mr. Leal, County Salvage Officer, for two clerks to attend at Bembridge...

My War, South London

In a short time, we three girls were attending St. Katherine's school near Taunton: I as a boarder, and...

Bombing of the Shipyard

I remember a big raid on Belfast one night and they went for the shipyard again... Instead we would one...

Getting Grandma Under the Stairs!

So my sisters, Rose aged 15, and Betty aged 10, my Invalid Grandma and I were left at home.We had to get...

Schoolboy in Rushden

I remember lying in bed in Rushden hearing the bombers going over to Coventry and we heard them coming back...

The Luftwaffe Visits Kintyre

Campbeltown - a town of around 6,000 people near the Mull of Kintyre - is a case in point. While the damage...

My War Experience

Hartlepool is a very narrow town with sea on 3 sides to the north was the moor where the soldiers and guns...

Mum and WW2

As a child. she was very scared at night, after putting up the "Black curtians" for the purpose of...

Home Front

My father was employed in a ‘Reserved Occupation’, working for a company in Acton that made...

West Bay During the War Years

Father was very busy with the shop - he was very short-staffed - it was a grocery shop and he had a...