Air Raids and Other Bombing

A Story From The Darkest Days Of The War

I knew the bomb had landed almost on the corner of Days Road and Folly Lane, the Bomb Disposal Squad were...

Shelter Memories

I have picture of my mother, standing in the garden holding the lid of a galvanised dustbin over her head,...

Ron Burgess as a Boy in Wartime Bedford

After School that afternoon taken by my mother to see the devastation in Ashburnham Road and Midland Road,...

WW2 Memories No4: A Sneak Raider in Walthamstow

It was believed at that time that cats would climb into a child's pram and attracted by the milk go to...

The Bombing of Parnalls Aircraft Factory of Yate

My parents were licensees of the Railway Hotel in Yate during the War and of course they were very busy...

Family History Report

There was a man called Mr Walter Taylor who was 80 years old and he served in the D'Day landings......

When the Sirens Sounded

In case I am, and in case it is of any interest — here is one of the fairly regular occurrences which...

Memories of Our Shop and the Rations

The land for the streets off Main Street at Wombwell was given as charity for 1 guinea. The streets were...

A Night to Remember

My Father was on Air Raid warden duty in the town square, adjacent to the docks, when my Mother and I woke...

A Child in Bedford

He was also a Special Constable in the Bedford Police. I remember the garden turned turned over to the...

Childhood Memories of Queensferry

Just as my father was closing the door, a loud blast sounded across all of Queensferry as the shattering of...

Huge landmine near Ipswich cemetary

The bomb disposal squad were working on the bomb for a week or 2 and we were still at my aunts when...

Fish and Chip Supper

Tony Morley was 9 and living in Shiregreen Lane when the following incident, which he remembers vividly,...

Maisie's Story: By the Children of Strand Primary School.

Maisie was going down town with her friend when suddenly a bomb landed right in front of her there was a...

My Story of The Bombing of Bristol in 1941

During the war, Bristol, where I lived, was heavily bombed by the Luftwafe as they targeted the docks and...

South Ealing Bomb

On the night in question, we were all going to sleep downstairs in the back bedroom, I on the sofa opposite...

War and Peace

I have vivid memories of how, during the bitter winter of 1946, German children would stand along the...

Mum's War

This week-end my mother caught the number seven bus from Maidstone to Tonbridge,it made its way out of the...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Oxford by Sylvia Newton (nee Green)

A Child's Memories of Wartime Oxford by Sylvia Newton. We had just moved to a new house on top of a...

Waving at the Enemy

One night when the raid was on they bombed the river Ouse, and you never had time to get to any shelters...

My Portchester Shelter

These were furnished with wooden boxes, rugs, sleeping bags that we made out of old sacks, a gas burner for...

Unreal and Real Air Raids

My mothers sister invited my mother and I to sleep at their home during the war years whilst we spent the...

Bombs at Hilperton

I have always been intrigued by a photograph in a book of old Trowbridge history showing bomb damage which...

Passenger train bombed outside Bramley and Wonersh station

At around the same time a Canadian Army convoy was passing through the village, and a number of vehicles,...

My Gran's Wartime Memories

I remember: we weren't allowed to let any light in through windows; the street lights were very dimmed,...

Bognor 1939-40

Obviously after a family council it was decided that the womenfolk stay down in Bognor rather than go back...