Air Raids and Other Bombing

Dining Room Suite

However he had a piece of liver which he had been saving for his dinner and he was pleased to recover it...

Our Air-Raid Shelter

When I was 5 we used to have to go down to an air-raid shelter beneath a grass bank... Another time my...

Some Mothers Son: Air Raids Over Sunderland

My grandparents lived through ww2 in a mining village outside Durham in the North East of England... There...

The Blitz - A Stay in the Country As Told by Margaret Ferguson

When things in Belfast got really bad, we were evacuated to Ballymoney... Then I got my first job, at...

A Boy in the Storm of the War

" I can remember a bomb dropping on the good's yard in Stoke Works...on the railway and I was in...

Bramford at War

I ran a shop in Bramford and there was great hardship in terms of shortages. Another time a German plane...

1st Bombs on Brussels

A loud noise woke us up, our house was shaking, little did we know the Germans had dropped 4 bombs on...

Night Air Raid

It was always underwear first followed by outer clothes, this was so we could get dressed in a hurry if...

Animals and Air Raids

There was a local dog that would allways bark just before the sirens would go off. Equally gifted was our...

Plane Crashing in St Peters

My great nan, Muriel Brenchley, told me this story for a school project on Town Life in world war 2. She...

Hilda Atkinson (nee Wilson) - Bombing in Beverley

On the way back the plane came over and dropped some bombs on Beverley hitting houses in Beverley... There...

Martlesham Memories

I was a young girl during the War and I can remember sitting on a wall one day near the RAF base...

Bombs over Bedford

The bombs demolished Steele's sweet shop, next to the Royal County theatre....

WW2 Anecdotes

My mother, Lily, and my aunt, Grace, lived next door to each other. One day, Grace asked Lily: "If a...

Living in Tunnels and underground

Sister oona fascinated me when she said that they dug a long tunnel around one of the white cliffs of dover...

The Thrill of Being Shot At

A Messerschmitt came over firing its machine guns... I ran home to tell my mum as happy as could be....

WW2: Seen through the eyes of a child in the Welsh Valleys.

However newport which was the nearest town about 10 miles away was heavily bombed because of the docks and...

Stuck in the Harecastle Tunnel

I remember once during an air-raid we were stuck for more than two hours in the Harecastle Tunnel....

Life in the Big Smoke

When I turned around there was a German plane flying low and shooting its machine guns. It was so low that...

Bomb Disposal with a Heart Condition

As part of the war effort he was co-opted to assist with the Clyde River Patrol – part of whose...

Sheffield Blitz

I can remember one event very clearly, it was a Saturday night and I had gone to the Sheffield Empire with...

The Broken Book Case

I remember the mine dropped in cemetery Road in Ipswich and it shattered my mother's glass fronted...

A Near Miss. I Forgive my Sergeant Major

The Company office was in large bedroom on the first floor.I was being given my orders for the day, when a...

Watching as the Germans bombed Sheffield

I can remember looking through the bedroom window as the Germans bombed Sheffield....

Machine Gunned - Cycling

In 1939 moved from Guildford to Polsue Manor Hotel near Philleigh... Cycled from Polsue to Ruan Lanihorn...

Reading's "Blitz"

Reading,largely unaffected by air warfare, albeit London was 39 miles away was, on a Wednesday during 1942,...