Air Raids and Other Bombing

My Childhood in Totternhoe, Bedfordshire

That same night bombs fell in Totternhoe chalk pits near the lane to Sewell. Around this time, 5 or 6 lads...

A Childs War

We had to leave the street about four times because time bombs had been found and we spent all our time in...

Betty Carrington's War

The bombing raids in Birmingham were the worst part of the War for me... They were buried underneath a...

St Johns Ambulance In Derry

We were at Messines park within 10 mins of the explosion. The Germans refused to get in. they walked up to...

She Finished up in the Bush

Nov 1940 I was a young girl living with my parents & younger sister in Gurnard nr Cowes Isle of Wight...

The War Years Remembered 50 years on Part 1

We being our Mum & Dad – Muriel & Leslie Bolitho, my sister Eunice – my brother Colin...

Clifford meets Roy Rogers

We as children all rushed there to see the friend of Roy Rogers. Someone from his unit game to pick him up...

Life in Wartime Britain

Unlike today, we had many ‘uplifting our spirits’ films, musicals with Fred Astaire, Laurel and...

"War Years at Royden Hall Farm, Shardlow, Derbys."

My brother James noticed 2 fire bombs had dropped under a wooden wagon, with Les haywood we ran down to put...

My Memories of War Time in Eastbourne

Eastbourne was the most bombed town in England — low planes came in over Beachy Head, switched off...

My memories of the war years in Monkwearmouth

Dad would shout up at the windows and if there was no answer, he would walk along the dark passages and...

The War in Southampton

His officer realised he was due to get married, so fortunately Ron was lent a motorcycle and he rushed to...

"Hit and Run" Air Raid on Bournemouth - the dreaded Focke-Wulfs

It was, though, seen over the South Coast towns - along with Messerschmitt 109's - in a series of...

A MARVELLOUS TIME FOR A BOY

PEOPLE IN STORY: Brian Chadwick LOCATION OF STORY: Croydon, Oxford MAIN AREA OF INTEREST: Childhood TITLE:...

Wartime Childhood Memories In Poole

My Grandfather was a night porter in a big hotel in Bournemouth. My Grandfather had strengthened the area...

A Fireman during the Belfast Blitz

There was a crowd of boys went, as soon as the sirens started they bulldozed into jewellers’ shops......

The Seven Lights

We learnt later that the aircraft mistook it for the railway bridge which was a vital link as the main line...

V E Day Memories of Mr Lyon

I left school at 14 and went straight to work at the tannery, Richard Hodgson & Sons, on Flemingate;...

A wartime childhood in Smethwick

And a lot of the bombing raids affected us because we had a lot of War Factories in Smethwick; Castings and...

The glass-roofed factory

I was working in Selfridges in London then, and I volunteered for War Work, so I went up to Westbury in...

The first day of the War.

My sister Joan aged 16 worked as a cashier at Mephams the Butchers in Upper Bedford St. Kemp Town... He was...

Lilian Roger's Story

(1) My father was the vicar of Tuebrook church, and we lived in four storey house on Buckingham Rd- one...

Close Encounters

In 1940 she left school and worked as a delivery girl for her father's business, ‘Burgess the...

Farming and Ack-Ack In Almondsbury

I was on my first guide camp at Blue Anchor near Minehead in North Somerset, so of course we were quickly...

A Family Tale

We arrived at the house in Prospect Place where Nanna was being cared for by my Aunt. On that awful night...

Memories of the Years 1939 to 1945

We were very lucky in Derby, we did not get the bombing night after night that some of the towns and cities...