Air Raids and Other Bombing

War Boy

My father was a policeman in Battersea, and air raid siren was on top of the police station... We used to...

Liverpool Memories

The women and girls went into the cellar and the men and boys stayed upstairs. If there were two cellars...

Three Nights Blitz - Swansea Town February 1941

In the blackout the town usually had an eerie silence, but during those three nights it looked more like a...

A Week’s Holiday that became Six Weeks

During one of the bombing raids, the station at Truro had been demolished... By then Truro station had been...

The Bomb in the Garden

I can remember that we had to make our way to Anglesea Road on what was a dark night and were taken...

Not Cricket!

I was off and ran into the Odeon cinema car park nearby, to my horror the bomb followed me as if it...

First Day Light Raid in Britain

I went in our front room, my Mum asked me what I'd like for my tea, then we were blown right across...

Plane Crash at Frindsbury

I remember on one occasion a German Messerschmidt plane flying low over the gardens and heading towards the...

Wallace Davidson

Bombs over Beachley. I leapt up the stairs to the back window which faced Beachley....

Before Signing Up

A friend and I used to use that one, because my Aunt was evacuated with the children. Next morning, when we...

A London War

Sidney Orford told his story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate on Sea, Kent. In the...

A Lucky Escape during the Liverpool Raids

Mum got fed up with it — all our windows were put out and there was soot everywhere, water gushing...

Memories of Air Raids in Norwich

We lived in Cromer, my grandparents lived in Norwich when Norwich had been raided, I was about 3 or 4 years...

Our Interview

He lived in Swaythling, Southampton for much of the war, but was evacuated to Tichfield, near Fareham for...

A German Bomber on Dartmoor

Apart from a false air raid alarm on the first full day of war whenm at nearly 6 I was on the...

Temp

The date 15/16April.I lived in Oxford Sreet,No34,with my parents.I was 15 years old.The sirens had sounded...

An Air Raid Experience - Love is Indestructable.

Just before dust and debris hid us from each other I saw the most perfect farewell pass between a...

A curios incident

My cousin often tells the tale of the aftermath of a trip to pick bluebells... My cousin failed to hear any...

A Child in the War

My Mum is holding my hand as I'm about to leave and travel to Bury St Edmunds... Mum missed home and...

Queen Victoria has a Hole in Her Skirts.

I remember as a young lad my Nan telling me to look at the Queen Victoria Statue at the southern end of...

Childhood Memories of War in Bedford

Playing in the playground of Silver Jubilee, Acacia Road, one day a lot of planes flew over. Two or three...

Surviving the Bombing

Like the day I asked the policeman where the unexploded bomb was and he said very seriously 'In the one...

A Fighter Plane Shells Norwood, South London, 20th January 1943 by Edwin O'Callaghan

A Fighter Plane Shells Norwood, South London, 20th January 1943 by Edwin O'Callaghan. A frock-Woolf, a...

Anfield Cemetary

My Dad John Sweeney, was in the LDV Liverpool Defence volunteers, he had lost his leg in the 1st world...

Home Front

Audrey's auntie used to take her stuff out into the street in her nightie and then dash back inside to...

The Day Our Street was Bombed

We lived in Townsend Street, Cheltenham, which was very near to the railway line and the gasworks. Townsend...