Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Wreckage

Mackies Foundry was a Munitions Factory during the war and the little streets of’ two up two...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Adswood by Bill Birch

I lived in Adswood and remember an aircraft of the USAAF making a forced landing on Clutha Road playing...

Motherhood in Wartime

The first night of bombing in Norwich there were no guns for protection, but they then put one up at Nelson...

A Remembrance

I had a cousin called Basil who was shot down out of the sky over Germany and killed in those years... The...

The Day War Broke Out

It was a brilliantly sunny morning, so I walked part way home with Joan taking a course that passed the...

Home Front Questionnaire

My Nan was 25 at the time war broke out and had a baby, my Uncle David. One adults weekly rations in...

The Bombing of The Shirley Press, Hove

It was one morning during February or March 1943 while I was at work that a lone German raider jettisoned...

We Saw the Glow from the Incendiary Bombs at York

My brother who was in the army had made friends with a New Zealand lad in the army... They once sent a...

Catherine's story

I remember one night I could hear a whistling sound - I was in the kitchen stood on a stool playing with...

An unusually intense game of chess

My grandparents stayed up in London because my grandfather refused to leave his congregation and my...

Hooked on Leicester!

The German bombers taregeted the Hawker Factory which built the Hawker Hurricanes and C.B. Gormans's...

Bombs & Shelters

I think I was dressing up in my mother's long dress and, like I say, I shot into the pantry as if...

A Real Cockney Remembers [M.Daniels]

We arrived back in London at Kings Cross station just as it was being bombed. My husband said, "Hello...

First Air Attack on Forth Bridge.

The train carried on without futher incident, only by this time the RAF fighters had become involved and...

Wartime Memories

I was sixteen years old and have a vivid memory of standing in the kitchen at Gresham's School near...

Mrs. Brooks Remembers [Mrs.Brooks]

I was living in Leicester when the war broke out; just 17 years old and working in a silk factory. Then I...

Bombing Run

The German bombers had been flying overhead for a few nights heading for Clydebank... He said Clydebank was...

Bombs in the Poppyfield

One dark night with not a star in the sky, we were toppled almost out of our beds by a bomb that...

The Night I Slept through the Air Raid

At that point I realised that we had slept ALL the way through the raid on Salford Docks. My Grandad, the...

When Hitler's Bomb failed to go off.

My mother, Christina L.J.Oliver, told me this story about the night my family was nearly wiped out during...

Losing my Brother at Aldgate Bus Depot by Leon Baldock

There was my mum, my younger brother David, my baby sister Jo and me — I was 7 years old. He grabbed...

Bombs over Lingfield

It passed over the village, probably no more than 1,000 feet and to my horror the bomb doors opened and a...

Terry Southway's Early Memories of Bedminster during the War

In 1943I can remember living in Church Lane, Bedminster with my parents and personal events related to...

Air Raid over Chelmsford — 13 May 1943

There was a noise at the back door and there was Cyril's father in his uniform and steel helmet who had...

The Night We Were Bombed

The bombs were dropped in a zig-zag pattern and my father said that probably the plane was being chased by...

Memories of a Teenager in WW2

With food rationing very much part of our lives, it was a treat to go to Evans Tea-room in Paignton where...