Air Raids and Other Bombing

Memories of a Day in 1943

I remember the day in 1943 when I was 12 years of age and the Sandhurst Road Junior school was bombed and...

Early One Morning

Above the castle was Haldon Moor and,at the time, a squadron of Hurricanes was stationed at an aerodrome on...

Back from the Dead

On the morning after one raid we went on our bikes to see what had happened at Rushmere Heath. My mother...

Air Raids

Suddenly one of the coal lids leading to the coal cellars popped open and our uncle came out with out any...

All Clear - Disappointment!

I have a vivid wartime memory of an air raid -the siren went at about 3am. We didn't have an...

Machine-gunning in Henslow Road

From our backgarden in Henslow Road, Ipswich, my father and I saw a German plane machine gunning our...

A Fascination with Flight and a Lucky Escape!

One morning on the way to school on the road overlooking the harbour, I heard aero engines and I looked...

First Real Action

Albert Grundy joined the Auxiliary Fire Service in 1938. In the evening, the bombers came back and this...

He was Blown off his Bike

When the bombs dropped he was blown off his bike and down the embankment. He went through some wooden...

Heavy Bombers

The hens laid eggs, the goats gave milk, the garden was well-tilled, And Dad provided vegetables, to keep...

The Night of the Land Mine

A year later the heavy bombing began, and on returning from a visit to my Grand Mother we all settled down...

The Remaining Bomb and What's a Banana

The bomb was dropped by a German bomber returning from a raid on Liverpool....

SCHOOLTIME IN THE SHELTER

I was a child at School during the War, somewhere between Blackpool and Preston. The child who was sitting...

Under The Stairs

Once I started to feel the vibrations of the falling bombs I picked up my two children and carried them to...

Taking Cover!

Nanny used to work in an egg packing factory near Ashford in the War... Poor Nanny had to clean off...

Manchester Blitz

My Mother Annie Etchells heared the sirens warning of an air raid she put my sister Pauline in her pram and...

Air Raid Memories

There were four of us kids, and the youngest were the twins, Christine and Carol Jarvis... The bombing was...

Rose

A bomb dropped between my aunt and uncle's house and my cousin Rose's house next door.She and her...

Air Raid Warning Red!

When enemy aircraft were approaching the area the exchange was alerted by telephone with the message...

Austin Family in the War -Part 1

As her brother had not returned from worked she was worried and went down to the docks the following day to...

Surprise in the Shelter!`

What we'd forgotten to tell her was that I and my younger brother kept our toads and frogs in a box on...

Evacuation, Motorbikes and an Alsatian dog

My family lived in Birmingham and they made private arrangements for me to be evacuated to Berkshire to...

Flatten Tin Cans for Salvage

My mother was employed at the Dodworth Pit to clean the offices. When we heard the plane we started to run,...

Tower Building Air Raids

During the German air raids over Liverpool in 1941, my father was working for Ellermans Shipping Line in...

An Incident in Peckham

WE WERE RUDELY AWAKENED ONE NIGHT IN THE EARLY PART OF THE WAR, THERE WAS QUITE AN UPROAR IN THE STREET...

Those Precious Stockings!

We didn't want to go to the shelter, so we carried on dancing, but by 10 o/clock the raid was getting...