Air Raids and Other Bombing

V2 rockets, and plane crashes

When I was 13 there was an occasion when a Dornier Bomber was shot down by a couple of spitfires. There was...

Not The Glorious Twelfth

Ron Anning, who was walking home from Ben Turner's building yard, just opposite Seaton Vicarage for his...

Bill wanted his Tea

Another memory was earlier in 1942 I was in Old Roar Road delivering papers late in the morning, papers...

A Little Miracle

Arriving in Southampton mid-afternoon, I caught a tram to the "Floating Bridge" to cross the River...

3 Days Ordeal Then Happiness

My father Federick Bell was in Lancaster having been moved there from Coventry to work. We couldn't get...

Blitz on Bangor

That was the only place in Bangor that was bombed. It was the train, the Bangor — the Holywood train...

Working at GEC Coventry

Glenys Smith: Working at GEC Coventry. When the cathedral was bombed, everyone in Coventry wanted to see it...

Fourteen Year Old Fire Watcher

Mum was training to be a nurse and our neighbour: Mrs Fox offered to take in Faye: a Jewish refugee... Mum...

Bomb Attempt on Manchester

We think the bomb was meant for the centre of Manchester but it was protected by Barrage Balloons. I was...

War-time service in the A.T.S.

After training, I joined the 606 H.A.A. Battery; this was a Heavy Anti-Aircraft army unit of large guns....

War Memories of Hythe Kent

One day in particular I was coming home with my Dad when a German fighter came over the hills behind Hythe...

The Night They Bombed Nottingham

They bombed the Lace Market, the Co-op bakery - a lot of people were killed there - also bombed was Truman...

COALMINER and FIREFIGHTER

Ironically enough this was situated in Saltby, just left of the famous spaghetti junction,. I remember...

Victim of Tuberculosis

Gertrude May Tollerfield Williams was born on 29th August 1922 at 4 Kingston Terrace, Cumberland Street,...

A Bomb In Next-Door’s Garden

One day the siren went off so Reg, his mum and one sister went into their Anderson shelter in the garden......

Hell Fire Corner Boy

During that time Folkestone was bombed, and machine gunned constantly. I remember on one occasion shopping...

School bombed

Later we moved back to Trinity Street, sharing a house with my aunt and her two daughters who were bombed...

Seconds From Death

I was about 8 years old and lived on a farm just outside Driffield, East Yorkshire, but it was holiday time...

Shelters and Bombs in Sunderland

When the German planes came over, there were the paper mill chimneys and my mother used to say - when they...

The Day Reading was Bombed

When the sirens sounded we knew the Germans were nearby, so all the employees went to the basement but when...

A Child in Norwich Norfolk

He ran food con vous into Southern Russia, drove an SAR MTB out of Corsica rescuing downed allied airmen in...

Memories of Wartime Lincoln Part 2

We were around the back of the church having a smoke and laugh before the service started and suddenly we...

Barrage Ballons, Bombs and a Royal visitor?

I don't believe it was very effective because, not long afterwards a squadron of German planes attacked...

My Memories of World War II (1939-1945)

I then went to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in Glasgow to gain my Registered Sick...

Escape to Ampfield

Being in Southampton was a dangerous experience as it faced daily air raids and bombs so my father thought...

Clydebank Blitz

The shipyard was just over the wall from us and we could hear the ack ack guns of the Polish Destroyer in...