Air Raids and Other Bombing

Air Raid in Leeds: The Dangers of Shrapnel

Early in the war while visiting friends in Kirkstall Leeds ; When an air raid started....

Shelter in the Park - A Near Miss.

Plymouth 1944, a friend and myself were walking home form school across a local park when the siren...

Drake's Drum

There had been concern about the ancient relic Drake's Drum, and this was moved to safety to Buckfast...

The Price of a Lost House

I lived in Donnington Road in Ipswich and we got a direct hit. Our neighbours were killed in the raid but I...

Highwell Road Bomb

I was born in Seaton and when I was about six or seven my sister and I were playing in Sidmouth Street,...

When They Bombed Dibley St, Byker

I rembember the Germans they dropped bombs on Dibley Street, Byker....

School Day Bombing Raid

1945 Germans bombed during afternoon school Comner cars and Skefko ballbearing factories... Ten minuets...

Keeping Up Appearances

My family were bombed out of Bristol and my father -a vicar - was relocated to Bath... On arriving at the...

Protection from Airial Bombardment

I was a clerk in the Royal Ordeance Depot, Ashford, Kent. During World War II, I was walking to work one...

Dodging School

There were about five Anderson Shelters in the street which we had to rush down into when the sirens went...

Grandma and her Best Friend

My Grandma lived in Coventry when it was bombed and in Isleworth Near London for the rest of the war....

School Time

We had teachers who would only go to the homes of the older children while we were told we would catch up...

War Memories - Travelling on a Train

In 1940 I was travelling down to London on a train bound for King's Cross station, I was in a long...

Tuebrook Liverpool Hit By Exploding Ammunition Train

I guess that the people of both London and Liverpool needed a sense of humour to see them through the dark...

Seaton Beach

Mother took me to the beach and we were enjoying it when she saw some aeroplanes coming in over the bay......

Sheffield Blitz

The German's decided to bomb this area as the steelworks produced weapons that were used during the...

Baling Out!

The Ack Ack had shot down one of the planes and it landed in a field somewhere in Dagenham and an airman...

One or two memories

I remember a German fighter plane landing at Broomhill. I worked in the coal mines and so did my three...

Our saviour 'the bath'

When the air raids came at our house in Moorside Lane Holbrook we did not have a shelter, what we used to...

My First Air Raid

All stayed at Aunty Lilly and Uncle Frank's house... At other times Aunty Lilly and Unle Frank slept...

The Country - As Told by Greta Smyth

My brothers and Father would stay at home, until one time when the bombs were dropped and they landed near...

The Blitz: Under the Stairs, As Told by Margaret Harrison

My Mum would make us go into our cupboard under the stairs....

Daylight Raid

As a small boy of eight years walking to school, I saw a German bomber... It turned out to be a stray...

Cycling in the Blackout

When I was old enough, I was allowed to the Ack Ack Battery on Nacton Road to take part in the dances...

Near-Miss at Brithembottom

When the enemy planes were returning home they dropped their bombs anywhere including the fields at...

Bombed out

The picture shows a Heinkel 111 shot down inKennington park London... The people in the photo are an aunt...