Air Raids and Other Bombing

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (the Blackout)

THE BLACK-OUT To get to my paternal grandparents’ house we had to travel by bus and when we would...

Bristol Swarmed

I lived on Victoria Avenue in Redfield and some sticker bombs hit the houses two-down from mine, which saw...

Civilian Casualties at Rolls Royce and Awsworth Viaduct

On another trip to the hospital I noticed that there were stretchers everywhere with people covered in...

Bombing of Bristol Docks 11th April 1941

My mother has told me the story of her grandfather Charles Samuel Thomas who worked on Bristol Docks during...

Small Memories of World War 2 as told by Louie Milligan

My boyfriend, who later became my husband lost his cousin Hughie Smith shortly after that. In 1940 we used...

Glenfield and Kennedy Remembered

May worked at Blackwood and Morton's until she was 18 then she moved to Glenfield and Kennedy, an...

Bombing of Guinness Trust flats, Chelsea.

I am writing in regard to the bombing of the Guinness Trust flats in Chelsea, London, on the night of the...

Chicken's head story

Walking down Toronto Rd, Dad spotted a chickens head lying on the floor. ".. Later my dads letters to...

A Bomb on Fletcher Road, Ipswich.

A Bomb on Fletcher Road, Ipswich. I went to South East Ipswich Boys' School, by Romley Road....

Bombs Over Trowbridge

Mrs Baden was working at Clarkes, a cloth factory in Trowbridge during the war... One night all the bombers...

Watching the War from Wymondham

We lived about 20 minutes by bike from the US 3rd Air Division base at Hethel and I would often cycle down...

They got Shot at by a Plane

They were walking down Harvey Clough Road at Norton Leighs when they got shot at by a plane. A bomb dropped...

Plumstead Baths and a Tragic Birthday by Ellen Searle

On October 8, 1940, it was his birthday, and we decided to commemorate it by going swimming in Plumstead...

Breaking the Blackout

I saw the plane, which was one of ours, crash in Holywells Park. I moved house during the War and the...

Flanders Road Bombing

The bomb fell in Flanders Road, number 5....

My Memories of the Air-Raid on the Wilkinson Factory in North Shields

The Wilkinsons Factory on King Street in North Shields had a communal shelter for the whole area in...

Riding Home

In 1940/41, when I was about 14 or 15, I was working at Hunts Cross Station kiosk, selling newspapers,...

Joining Up Disaster

After 16 weeks with the Gordons, we joined the London Scottish in Hampshire preparing for the invasion...

The Fire Watch

They Thought I Was Dead

We all met on station and went to out our hostel, that was the most isolated hostel in East Anglia. It was...

Bomb over Stubbins

Edenfield is a short distance from Stubbins and one night a bomb dropped on the river bank at...

War in the Suburbs by Beryl

One of the most memorable but not necessarily happiest moments of Beryl's war was the day that a bomb...

Air Raid at Aunty Daisy's: In Birmingham

My father was in the artillery on guns by the canal at Castle Bromwich where the Spitfires were made and...

Living Near Hendon Aerodrome Was Dangerous !

Dad had moved our bedroom downstairs and the ceiling was covered in sheets of corrugated iron, these were...

Safer Outside

We lived at Thorpe near Norwich, and had an Anderson shelter in our garden but my father, who was a WW1...

A Near-Miss at Tea-Time.

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in Autumn in New Malden, Surrey. The only logical answer was that the...