Air Raids and Other Bombing

Just Doing What We Had To Do!

Grocery Supply Depot at Lawley St., patrolling in Tyseley, near Lucas’ the big munitions factory. My...

Katies War

The German airman landed on the telegraph wires in front of me by the oval cricket ground and hung in his...

Memories

Gran also recalls when she was on the beach at St Ives with Clive and Brian, when two German fighter planes...

Memories of a 5/6 year old boy 1943 to 1946

People were shouting to stay close to the wall as bullets were hitting the road in St Nicholas Street, as...

A Direct Hit on the Cowshed

The teenagers in the village often walked to the pier on Sunday afternoons and I remember sitting on the...

Some Excitement in Plumstead

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM A TWELVE PAGE LETTER WRITTEN BY IRIS GILDON TO A FRIEND, CISSY, WHILST...

My Wartime Memories - The Start of the War

At school I was a Shelter Monitor which meant that I had to put the required things into the shelter and...

She played the accordion

On a personal level, I passed the Grammar school entrance examination and for my efforts was given a place...

Seeing the Royal Family on V.E. Day

I grew up in Shirley, between Croyden, Surrey and West Wickham, Kent. After returning from evacuation with...

ARP in Aldershot

Then in each post there were several Wardens who were responsible to check that there were no lights...

Colleens wartime memories (part 1)

At school we had brick shelters and the teachers would march us to the shelter singing songs such as...

My Experience of the bombing of Barrow

On one of the bombing sessions they dropped quite a few bombs on Barrow... So I rode my bike from Barrow to...

Cream for Sunday Tea and other stories

Jennie can remember bombs falling in the Gill Wood and Crookhall as they were trying to hit the steel works...

An Early Case of “Friendly Fire”

After a lot of trouble we managed to get a train back to Derby — most of the trains were full of...

Hospitality to the Forces

Unpleasant as war is, there were some interesting points. for instance, the vubration from these guns when...

What a night !!

Living in Caterham, Surrey, during the war was always going to be risky with the military targets of the...

Estuary Attack and other memories

My brother and I were staying with my aunt and grandmother at 41, Lisl Road, Colchester. My mother called...

Pamala's Air Raid Memories

A couple of years later most of the children had been evacuated to Yorkshire, but I stayed with my mum as...

What a night !!

Living in Caterham, Surrey, during the war was always going to be risky with the military targets of the...

WAR TIME MEMORIES

Leicester A Prime Bombing Target One night, 19 / 11/ 40... I have in recent years, seen pre-war German...

The Dark Days

Dad was posted to Kenley Spitfire aerodrome. One night, a German plane was shot down over Kenley, landing,...

Harry Smiths Story

I was 26 when the war started and working in Gateshead near Newcastle at an Auto Body Repair Works, so I...

Monkwearmouth Memories

I think it was one of the less dangerous bombs because I remember it did'nt cause a lot of damage,...

Dropped my knitting

Dad dug the hole and covered it with soil to camouflage it, he also made wooden bunks and mattresses made...

A near miss

In the summer of 1940, my sister and I worked in the Gosport Food Office which was located in my old school...

The Removal Man’s Rescue

One particular day it got to dinner time, and two of the children, Freddy and Audrey, had to go back down...