Air Raids and Other Bombing

WRVS Report

At 11.45p.m. we were rung up by the ARP to ask if we would open up the Canteen as it had been...

Evacuated to Winchester - Acorns and Cowpats

The countryside was for me a new and exciting set of sensations: nuts that grew on trees, acorns, pale...

Memories of Bridport in the War

When the incendiary bombs fell in Happy Island I seem to remember going along the road to a garage where...

Avoiding the Bombs

In october 1940, we had enough of the bombing so Stan and i decided to go to Nuneaton to stay with...

Sergeant Ray Holmes and German Pilot -- Fighter Plane Live Dig! Channel Five/National Geographic

In the live programme about the unearthing of the remains of Ray Holmes' Hurricane fighter shown on...

School Days at Gowerton Around 1940

In and around 1940 Gowerton was, seemingly, far removed from the Second World War except for military...

Bombed Out in Infancy

Mum had already sent my eldest brother to live with my Gran and Grandad in the country to be safe, and we...

The Night Our House Fell on Top of Us

After this episode, my mum and the younger sisters and brothers went to stay with a friend in the...

Sirens Over Derby

Going to school always took longer than usual as we soberly took in the scenes of devastation, family homes...

Evacuee

Specially if one of the animals got free from the cattle market behind the town hall. My Godmother, Sis...

Memories of War Time in Dover, Kent

May 1940 the evacuation of Dunkirk began, we had no news of my Father so when the troops were landing at...

ANNIE’S WAR TIME MEMORIES

Annie and her husband were living in Finaghy at that time and she supposed that they were lucky as their...

Pregnant in "Peacetime"

Whilst our house was being rebuilt after the bombing we lived with my Mother-in- Law. There were timed...

London's Burning

Parts of County Hall and St Thomas's Hospital were well alight, so I went down York Road to Waterloo...

The First Time I Saw Someone Killed

I was asleep in bed with my brother when our mother came into our bedroom and said the bombs are getting...

Wartime in the Countryside

When the first of the bombs dropped on London our home was badly damaged, so my father decided through the...

Dodging

A few years later, after the war, we kicked around at football in the village playing field.Nearby at...

My Mothers Wartime Memories as a Teenager in Manchester

My two older brothers, Alfred and Bernard, were called up almost immediately, which upset my mother,...

Dorniers over Barnehurst 15th September 1940

Despite it being 65 years ago, we can relate to the story by Douglas Cooper concerning the death-throes of...

Aston Birmingham Evacuee Returns

july 1942.sent back home from rugeley boys camp. now aged 14 to start work.i was apprenticed to a joiners...

Diary of a War Baby

My father, William, was born in the Isle of Dogs, East London, in 1913 and my mother, Doris, was born in...

My Wartime Youth

The London Zoo sacked all the staff of military age and kept the older staff of which my father was ons as...

My memories of the 18th July 1940

So that evening we went to the regent picture palace in Chatham and afterwards for a drink, then onto my...

MY LATE MOTHER'S RECOLLECTION OF THE NIGHT THE GERMANS BOMBED THE LONDON DOCKS. SATURDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 1940 and others

On Saturday 7 September 1940 my mother took my two years-old brother, John, to visit a friend, Ann and her...

Things That Went Bump in the Night

My father had built a concrete air-raid shelter in our back garden in Vicarage Farm Road, Heston and when...

Childhood Memories

One night there were Stirling bombers, and German planes were attacking them, and we were watching the...