Air Raids and Other Bombing

Ken Nichols

My father had no job at that time so he joined Wilsons bakery and drove an electric bakers van around...

Don't Play With Fire!

There was a tunnel up from the cellar and an access corridor to an escape hatch in the garden... I became a...

The Blitz and the Egg

My Nan, Mary Keegan, worked in a munitions factory during the war. she has told us of how she used wire...

War Memories from My Childhood

The brother in the Navy went all over, Murmansk and America etc. My Airforce brother was a guard of honour...

Ireland, North and South — Bombing

I used to feel sorry for the German people too, when they would bomb the whole city like Dresden and those...

Memories of World War 2

Food was rationed but babies were healthy, fed on cod liver oil and orange juice. ".. Entertainers,...

Getting it Wrong and the Shattered Shelter: An Aircraft Spotter in Bedford

One of the bombs landed in a scrapyard and another coal storage for a railway... The bomb that landed in...

Rest Centre Service - Support for Refugees from the Blitz

In the summer of 1940 I was an 18 year old working as a clerk for the London County Council in Bethnal...

Wartime Radio Announcer

I decided to do my “Bit” and went to the Royal Ordinance Factory in Rotherwas, in Hereford...

Duty Calls

Born in the local waggon works as part of a semi-wild litter, Mickey say his war service as escort to the...

Audrey's War Time Story: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

My mum and dad sent me to my Aunt and Uncle on the outskirts of Barrow, which was a safer area... Then...

My Brother- A Short Life

I am the youngest of four children born in East Ham London, now part of "Newham". My idol was my...

Childhood Memories of the Blitz in Belfast

While my dad was carrying out his ARP duty on the streets of Belfast he would encourage my mum to use the...

My Memories as a War Child

My father's sister and brother lived in Jersey during the occupation and I can remember them coming...

Luftwaffe Attack on St.Ives

It was a fine day as I dug around in the sand when suddenly we heard an aircraft coming in low from...

The Bombing of Number Two Clifford Street

We heard the bombs whistling as they were about to land and knew they were very very close....

The Night We Were Bombed

My father and my brother stayed behind and my brother filled a bucket with water whilst my father threw...

Bombed Out!

Walter was married and living in Thornaby Place, the last house on the left and of a peculiar shape as it...

Wartime Memories

I was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in December 1939 and I have three vivid memories relating to the Second...

Rationing Meant Trying All Sorts of Things

The war to me as a child meant that food was always a problem I would queue for hours in food queues...

1939 to 1945 Wartime Memories

After these traumatic experiences my sister, baby and myself were evacuated to Ludlow in Shropshire to a...

Down in the Shelter

Then, Dad - he only used to work across the road at the ECC - and he used to go firewatching in...

Ju188 shot down in 1944

The aircraft had come over Chelmsford where the rocket guns fired at it and set it alight, the guns stopped...

Youth During the War: J E Stuart

Two raids stick in my mind during my time at prep school during the Battle of Britain, where we were...

Wartime Memories of Joan Thomas

Joan lived in Langton Matravers, near Swanage throughout the war years. Joan's father worked in the...

Bombs and air raids in Stoke Newington

During one raid I remember a bomb dropped near the factory and the force of the blast blew all out windows...