Air Raids and Other Bombing

Bombing of Yeovil

One evening, I must have been about 4 years old, I went to a fish and chip shop when we heard a...

A Happy Ending

I had three brothers — Arthur, who is still alive, and the twins, Ken and Sid. Dad was not strong but...

Air Raid Bombing

If you heard the whilstening bombs you knew you were ok but if you didn't you knew you weren't. If...

Home from School

I was home from school, probably on some excuse or other i had gone to the shops at the end of the...

Hugh Northern as a boy, South Croydon

Oil fires had been lit on adjacent farmland to attract enemy bombers to drop bombs away from Surrey Docks...

Mary's War

She also told me about the vanity of her friend and herself - they refused to put on their tin hats as...

A Few Memories of the War in Crawley

The pilot off loaded his bombs — one landed on the post office, 2 on the Church of England school off...

Bethnal Green Station Tragedy

Edward Lampey was Muriels Grandad, his brother was Frederick. Violet and Alice were Grandads daughters and...

A Child Observes the War

At the start of the war I lived in Ipswich and I remember this plane coming over – a German one,...

Surviving the Air Raids in Coventry

I was in Coventry for the whole of the war and saw a lovely little city and its beautiful cathedral...

Air Raid Shelters

There was an air raid shelter in the back lane which everyone in the street used.Marys husband Robert...

My Wartime Memories

Matty remembers the bombing of Clydebank in 1941 and the fire bombing of Ardeer Explosives Factory –...

A Happy Ending

I had three brothers — Arthur, who is still alive, and the twins, Ken and Sid. Dad was not strong but...

Wakefield's War

Action eventually came to Wakefield when a stick of bombs fell in the Thornes Park area... Was it the same...

Retreat to Anderson Shelter

The Germans sent down incendiary bombs to light up the munitions factories in our area but the quick...

The Blitz of London

I was born in South East London, a place called the Elephant and Castle. I remember the doodle bugs coming...

If Hitler is Coming I Must be Dressed

16 years old and in hospital during the war I remember the nurses told me if a the water tower above the...

The Tally-man

It was 1940 summertime, a lovely day; the tally-man had just called for his money when the air-raid warning...

Gas Masks and Blackberries

British Aluminium had a factory where they made the spitfire near where I used to walk... Mother died at my...

Early Teenage Memories

I left school at 15 and became a fire service messenger for the AFS - Auxhilary Fire Service in Mill St...

London and the Blitz

My mother told me this story about the war.We had been "bombed out" and were living on a London...

Hilda Wilson's Neighbours Untimely Death

He joined the RAF in May 1940 on his first wedding anniversary - which upset Sue's mother....

Air Raids

I was a pupil at Bingley Grammar School at the time and we all trooped round the edge of the playing fields...

Unexploded Bomb in Holywells Park.

Next thing we knew about it was that we were told there was an unexploded bomb in Holywells Park, just near...

Roebeck Road, Ipswich, Air Raids.

Roebeck Road, Ipswich, Air Raids. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum with Mr Hutton's permission....

Bomb at the Munitions Factory

I remember in the War when i was a child living at Dinedor a couple of miles from Rotherwas when a bomb...