Air Raids and Other Bombing

Some Brief Recollections of My Life at the Onset of World War Two: by Eric Castle.

From the onset of the Second World War I lived in Dover. Soon after the above incident I joined the navy...

The end of Lancaster 'N' for Nuts - 30th August 1943 - Part Two

The next few days involved the Russians making a list of all British prisoners, at which we individually...

Taking the Burn out of Burniston

My grandfather , Fred Wood, aGarage Proprietor,lived in a small village on the southern edge of the North...

Air Raids.

My father Jack always stayed in bed at night saying “No German bombers were going to keep him out of...

Whitley Bay Air-Raids

One of the worst air-raids in Whitley Bay was when the air-craft carrier HMS Victorious came down the river...

Young War Memories

I can remember workman arriving at our house and digging a trench accross our garden and next doors garden...

Childhood Memories

We were ten miles south of Derby, so we were in a gun-defended area or GDA because of Rolls Royce factories...

My war Memories

We lived in Walthamstow — it was called Bomb Alley! They threw everything at us, rockets, bombs,...

Wartime Childhood In Faversham

It was the Battle of Britain and very bad over Faversham, so we didn't do a lot of schooling. At the...

From Dovercourt to London.

From Dovercourt to London. I must one of the few children to have been evacuated from Dovercourt, on the...

Sore Backs and Air-Raid Shelters

There was my two aunts and uncle, and my tow cousins Lousia and Marjorie. Like my uncle was in the ARP, and...

Memories are Made of This

My dad told us to sit down on the stairs, he then pulled the living room door and the front room door...

When I Were A Lad

Hull was bombed a lot and all hell would break out with the machine guns and anti-aircraft guns going all...

Hiding in the Coal Hole

I remember my husband telling me that over in England they were down at the railway and they were at a...

Bombs on the Lizard

My father, knowing they were bombs, shut the door quickly and the bombs landed near the railway line, on...

Emmeine - the Story before I went away

My other sister whose husband was in the royal corp of signals, he got killed at age 26yrs with three of...

Anecdotes of Living in New Malden

One day I was over at my Aunt's at Kingston upon Thames. The air raid sirens went and it sounded like...

Getting Away from the Bombs!

We were Londoners and my mother decided that the family should move to Wales to get away from the bombs....

Bomb Blast in Woodhouse -Mrs Joan E. Gamble - Nee Marston

After the all-clear, we went across to Auntie Annie's and down through the wall in the cellar to see if...

Memories of Wartime Scotland

My Grandmother was an ARP Warden and as soon as the sirens went she would get her helmet on and go to...

My Dad's War

Dad and his brother, Charlie, were sent to Norfolk as evacuees in the early war years. Things went on...

Further to 'Gallantry Again!' (Swansea Docks and the Blitz)

On the evening of 17 January 1941, my father, Edward David Price was on duty in the docks area of Swansea...

Declaration of War

In September 1939 my mother and I, a sixteen year old girl, lived in a flat consisting of three rooms and a...

WRVS Report Newport IW

At St. John's Road Mrs. Jackson reports that 47 people spent the night and several others dropped in...

Ipswich Air Raids

My father was going away to the army and my mother and myself and my sister Moe were left at home in...

Rationing Memories

In 1944 Dad took me to a concert at RAF Burtonwood, which was a US bomber group airfield> The concert...