Air Raids and Other Bombing

Looking for Grandma's House

One day Len decided that he and I should visit Grandma who lived in Everton which was a tram ride away from...

Bombing in Malta

A torpedo dropped on our house as we were going into the shelter, the blast of the bomb blew us down the...

Jean, The Evacuee

I went to Aylesbury Grammar School and watched the Blitz on London from there... We celebrated VE and VJ...

And Not a Man Amongst Us

This left me and my sister and her friend and my best friend Lil on our own... I worked as a telephone...

A Student's Wartime Memories: In Bedford

The first on a scrap merchant's yard to the rear of Prebend Street, the second one was a direct hit on...

Hearing the First Siren and later Seeing Planes Being Shot Down Over Petts Wood, Kent

Hearing the First Siren and later Seeing Planes Being Shot Down Over Petts Wood, Kent. 15th September 1940...

A Daylight Raid

The Battersea Power Station had two flags flying to alert London citizens of bomb danger. We lived near...

The Bombing of the Brewerys: Burton-Upon-Trent

One lady told us that there had been a direct hit on the brewery and the bomb had hit the water...

Growing Up

My mother was in the WVS, located opposite Westleton Green supporting the troops the Westleton Common; they...

Growing up in WW2

Then started what I learned later was called the phoney war.I cannot remember how long it lasted but...

Memories of the World War

When my fiancée was on leave from his army training he used to come with me in the ambulance to pick...

When I Was 6

My brother who was 7 years older than me, would never get up and used to stay in bed while the air...

My Aunt's Fur Coat

My earliest memory is of being held in my father's arms, looking out of our landing window, while he...

Fish and Chips

My parents had a fryer in a parade of shops in Chalk Farm, London... We used to get visits from chauffers...

Growing Up In Hinckley During Wartime

'I was five years old when the Germans bombed Merivale Avenue in Hinckley. There were serveral sites in...

Dancing Jam Jars

During the war I lived on Norwood Road, Evington, Leicester with my parents and my older sister, Sheila. My...

Leicester Memories

Having been born in 1934 I was very young at the start of ww2 My memories would start around 1941 My father...

Encounter with a German Bomber

We were sitting upon the peak of a hill next to the bungalow when the loud roar of an engine, the roar...

My Experience of WW2

Halfway through the film a bomb fell very close to the cinema and part of the ceiling fell down, the...

Some Terrifying Incidents: January 1944

On another occasion 74 people were drowned in a shelter at Balham Station when a bomb fractured a water...

A Daylight Raid: In Hull

Suddenly without any warning, a German plane dived down out of the sky and started machine-gunning us......

Bombs in the Garden - Sturdee Road, Stoke

Plymouth 1944, my mother and I lived in Sturdee Road, Stoke. I was 12, during the night the siren sounded...

Fish Tanks and German Planes

At nine years old Lilian went to St. Mary's School in Manchester... The water had wet a lot of books...

Water shortages during the Manchester Blitz by "B.K."

After a night of heavy bombing trying to hit the Salford Docks and a nearby hospital, which was hard hit,...

German Plane Bombed the Market

We did, from time to time, have the German fighter planes fly over us and one night they dropped some bombs...

Bombs at Puncknowle

I am Joseph Sidney Simmonds, born 26 July 1922 at Puncknowle, where I lived until 1980 when I moved to...