Air Raids and Other Bombing

Sunderland and Germany

My memories of Sunderland during the war were of the air raids, when men tried to reach the shelters ahead...

Isabelle Steward and The country at war

We recently had the chance to meet Isabelle Steward a lady who had first hand experience of the realities...

My War Effort

Some girls would go to the Rainbow Club at Piccadilly Circus where the Americans would give nylon stockings...

Mini Operation in an Air Raid: A Childhood Memory

When I awoke, my leg had a large hole just below the knee, the poison had been removed and there was a...

A child's journey

Unfortunately the house that we went to was cold and damp and the very next day my mother took us all back...

When the Local Market was Bombed

Suddenly we heard the bomb coming, it was a terrific noise, it blew all the windows out. When I saw the...

German Plane Shot Down

Suddenly one of them started to tumble end over end over end passing right over Redcar and finishing up in...

The First Siren

Some afternoons we played games and some they other places around Oxford where they could accomodate us for...

The Dark Hole

Safest place in the house, apparently, the cupboard under the stairs known locally as the “dark...

Missing out on the 11+ in Stratford

On the second of September 1939, my sister and I boarded a train at Stratford and travelled to Colchester...

''You Little B****r''

My Grandfather was away somewhere in the Royal Artillery, and my Grandmother was left to bring up two young...

A Bolt from the Blue

During the war, in my late teens, I was working at a bank in Derby, and was in digs in the suburbs...

safe shelter

My Mum said that she would sooner take her chances and knock on someone's door and shelter with them.As...

Childhood Memories of Battle of Britain

At the time of the Battle of Britain I was an eight year old living with my parents, my sister, Gwendoline...

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

After the warning, as we were making our way to the shelter, suddenly new rocket guns opened up over our...

Harry Stemp's Experirence of the Blitz

He went into armaments at the old cotton factory at Barton Hill, which they turned into a munitions...

Bob Coleman's Memories of the Blitz

The bomb or doodle bug had fallen at the end of the road the junction of Cleaver or Clever Road and...

My First Memories

However , I was born in Sutton , Surrey and home was Worcester Park so we were in a vulnerable area and...

At the Age of 11

I returned to my school, which was John Gulson C.A to find that the top story of the school was missing so...

Life as an evacuee

Prior to the start of the war we had lived in Toronto Road, Tilbury but the house was uninhabitable after...

Yeovil Bombing

The farm lay close to Yeovilton airbase and under the flight path for Bristol and they were used to enemy...

Monica’s Lucky Dinner

My mum Rose worked for the council, but at lunch time she would meet me and we would walk to the Downderry...

Last Raid

We lived about a mile from the Royal Ordnance Factory and when the sirens went, my mother, worried about my...

I was in the Sheffield Raids

The Sheffield raids started and we went down into the cellars. We finally got a bus to Rotherham, then a...

Sea Chest

Jim and his brother Tom who lived in Albion Street, Murton were sitting on the family sea chest in front of...

My Parent's War-Time Experience

He was on the Anti Aircraft on the heavy artillery. my mother worked locally in the offices of a wholesale...