Air Raids and Other Bombing

Gas Masks

Everybody had to put up the blackouts every night so that the German bombers couldn't see any lights...

House Saved

My grandparents, John and Catherine McManus, lived in Stockport during the war... A few minutes later he...

A close encounter

Aged 15, Lily Russ worked at a former corset making factory making parachutes as part of the war effort......

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell. My mum has always told me that I should never moan about my...

The Walk Home

He had to walk along Whitehall Road/Geldard Road dodging the incendiary devices as they fell, he jumped in...

A Firefighter in the War

The first one is: while he was off-duty he was standing looking out to sea,on the North side of the Tyne,he...

Bombing Grandma

I went to grammar school with London evacuees, and we had Liverpool people who had been bombed out staying...

Bombing in Yeovil

She opted to go into the cellar. All I can remember is sitting in the cellar and eating doughnuts to...

Lucky Day

My father worked for the admiralty during the war, as he was a marine engineer working on the warships as...

A Bomb at Sunderland

My grandparents came from Sunderland and my grandmother used to take us into Sunderland a lot. One day we...

Scottish Childhood Memories

There was also an incident near the Forth Road Bridge when German bombers were bombing Rosyth dockyards and...

Coconut by Post

I collected rose hips from Holywells Park, and took them to a little shop which was in “The...

Bombed in Wallasy

Normally we would hide under the stairs during an air raid, but our neighbour had an Anderson shelter which...

A Question, Not Exactly a Story

Fire fighters and Emergency Services approach the flaming Castle Street as our town becomes an inferno....

Night Raiders

One night, when the sirens went off, our next door neighbour, who was a tall and well build woman, dashed...

Mobile Siren

For Air Raid Warnings we listened out for siren Warnings and All-Clears from the tw0 towns mentioned. Came...

The Porter's Story

A German bomber left its squadron during a raid on the south coast, came up to Oxfordshire, and dropped its...

Saved by a Table

Aunt Lily lived with her brother in Warrenby... When the siren went my Aunt Lily and her brother went...

A Lucky Escape

The Germans ‘decided to bomb the wood yard that night — Mr and Mrs Mackie had to keep throwing...

Sleeping with a Bomb

After one such bomber raid and being out on ambulance duty she returned home and went to bed. On waking in...

The Bombing of Leytonstone

All the windows were broken and we found that my grandfather, who was ninety, was out in the garden when...

Teen Years

We all had scary moments with bombs exploding, gunfire noise, etc. An unexploded huge bomb landed killing...

A Lucky Escape

It was the other nurses turn to attend but Nell volunteered to go instead of her as she had just returned...

Shelter in the Playground: In North East England

I remember a nursery rhyme called the Golden Goose; we all used to follow the one who was the goose in a...

War in London

I lived at 25 Silwood Street, Rotherhithe at the begining of the war with my parents, older brother &...

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