Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Coventry Raid.

My dad was a delivery boy, and on the 14th of november 1940, he and a driver were to take a vehicle...

Share and share alike

My aunty worked in the Drome at Filton... A couple of hours later there was a knock on my grandmothers door...

My Earliest Memory

Running into the kitchen from the garden of our house at devonshire Way, Shirley I excitedly delivered the...

A Very Narrow Escape

My Uncle Jack who lives in Liverpool related this story to me. After a shopping trip in Liverpool Town...

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz in 1941 by Shirley Cawthra (nee Beardwell)

German civilians were apparently so incensed by RAF bombings that they hung RAF POWs from trees... I...

The Bombs Dropped on Montrose

Mrs Melville remembers the bomb dropped on Rossie Island on a Saturday afternoon, her daughter Norah had...

A Few Memories of War In South Norwood

I lived in South Norwood on the outskirts of London with my mother. We would visit my old aunt who lived in...

Great Yarmouth and Thereabouts

As a child I have memories of the Germans bombing Great Yarmouth, and being evacuated with my mother and...

The Day War Broke Out

I can remember the bombing of the fields around Jenks' farm at Northwood. Everyone thought they were...

When Unexpected Guests Dropped In

Mum and Dad were caretakers at the Church Hall, where lots of other activities took place during the week....

Bomb Damaged Birmingham

My partner was friendly with a young man who lived in Bromsgrove but worked in Birmingham. So one morning...

Lancaster Bombers built by " Girls "

My mother Florence Bannerman often tells me about her contribution during the second " World War"....

Bombs

From that time on, although we escaped the heavy bombing of nearby Croydon and London, the odd plane would...

Run For Your Life !

In 1941 I was 8 years old and it was on one wet and rainy day that I went with my Mum...

Bombing of St Peter Port Harbour 1940

They softened up the island by bombing the harbour, I think up towards 30 people were killed and they were...

Memories of a St Marks Talbot Village Schoolgirl [M.Brown]

I am now 75 years of age and I have good recollections of the War, first when our Junior School at St...

Tedious Work

While I was at work one day, my mother's house was bombed, no warning had been given but this bomb...

Air Raid in Kingswood Bristol

Story related by Douglas about his brother and sister in law Charlie and Gladys Banfield during the blitz...

Surprise for the Pigs

As a child during the war I lived with my Grandparents at Kings Dyke,we kept two pigs one for home use, one...

A Bomb falls on Reading

In Feb 1943 a lone plane offloaded its bombs on to Broad Street in Reading, destroying Grassteads Store,...

Going Back

I meet Jim again three months after that and found out that all his family was killed in the bombed air...

Close Shave.

My mum said,"They have got us bad this time". Eventually when the all clear siren sounded we...

When the Bombers Came Over

We only had a few high explosive bombs dropped on Kettering but I was told the German bombers kept a few...

The Bombing of Guernsey Harbour -Jean Budden

I suppose my first memory is actually when the Germans raided the harbour before they occupied us....

The Special Constable

Donald remembers that the three main groups of men stationed in and around Kirriemuir during the war were...

Edward Lomax- The night the bomb dropped

A row of terraced houses, numbered between 72 and 82, Sunny Bank, Wakefield Road was bombed... On the night...