Air Raids and Other Bombing

Bombing in Leicester

Leicester was lucky in many ways as we did not suffer bombing in the same way as many other cities. That...

Worthing War Memories

We had evacuees from London, a mother and a daughter of my age,. Mum and I were evacuated to Royston; there...

Fire Raid on Norwich and Faulty Brakes

It became necessary to go out on to the roof of the north trancept of the Cathedral where some incendiary...

Memories of Kidderminster as a Youngster During WW2

We all went home cheering and shouting "hooray for Hitler". Another bomb fell on a house at...

Memories of an Austrian Wife [Miss Reed]

In 1939 we moved to Edgware into a new block of houses they were just building, I was pregnant at the time,...

1943 - A Country Blitz

Usually we slept under Morrison Shelters which crowded our living rooms like oversized iron dining tables,...

In Hospital during the War

I'd had an operation on my back, I had abscesses on my back and when the bombs fell we were taken and...

All's Fair in Love and War.

When I had my calling-up papers at 19, I decided to do nursing I was sent to Winford Orthopaedic hospital,...

Air-raid shelter in the east end of Greenock

I was nine when the war finished and my most vivid memory was being in a railway tunnel in the east end...

Memories of the Bombing of the Grosvenor Hotel

I remember seeing the four bombs that hit the Grosvenor Hotel and the County Theatre in Midland Road. I...

Bethnal Road School Bombed

My brother my Mum and I lived upstairs in a terraced house and my Nan and Grandad lived downstairs, and...

A Banner of Bombs

I was a twenty-year old nurse at Joyce Green Hospital in Dartford in Kent in the latter half of 1940. The...

MY FRIEND THE MOON

In the end corner of our road, there was a big garage where some Arab soldiers were billeted.Ali was one of...

Strafing a playing field, Torquay 1943/44

I was a student at the South Devon Technical College, Torquay from 1942 to 1946. We did games on Wednesday...

"Dieppe Day" by Jean Siney (nee Rigden)

The Dieppe assault was fronted by the Canadians, many of whom were camped near us in Sussex. The raid was...

Margo's Memoirs (M.Blears)

My father was head of the ARP in the Queens Park district of the town and chief incident officer. All the...

Attack on the Trinity House Lighthouse at Berry Head

We did civilian work and work for the Admiralty and Coast Guard and very often had to take batteries out to...

Firewatching in Park Row

Got a job Savorys in Park Row and did volunteer firewatching for the big raid in November 1941. On a sunday...

Watching the Dogfights over Exeter Station

I used to go out and watch the daylight dog fights between the British and German planes over Exeter...

A German Incendiary Bomb

After one visit we went into Kew Gardens or Hyde Park where brother Brian found an incendiary bomb... Now...

Desperately Seeking Shelter

There was a daylight raid on Filton airfield on a Wednesday.I was playing in the garden and I remember...

The Southgates of Lindbergh Road

One night, on about the 25th August 1942, a German plane, searching for Ipswich Airport, was following a...

When the needs…

The bundle being a blanket tied with cord, flask of weak tea, and documents such as insurance, rent book,...

Fire in the Hole!!

We heard the next day that ' Wilsons Drapery Store' in Crouch End had been destroyed by incendiary...

Red Sky over Coventry

Just after this I was told that the red sky we could see a long way in the distance from London was...

Raids on the East Coast

RAF Leconfield Aerodrome was about 3 miles away and one Saturday I was out shopping in Beverley with mum...