Air Raids and Other Bombing

German air raid on East Cowes

So I would have been seven in early May 1942 when my home town of East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was hit...

Fire Brigade Messenger Boy

The purpose of these messenger boys was to deliver messages to and from the Brigade Headquarters to...

Wartime Memoirs, David Stedman

We trained in the Parish Room at Kings Walden Tuesday and Thursdays and at the Pump House at the top of...

Govan in the War

I lived in a tenement in Govan and the River Clyde was on our doorstep, shipbuilding was the main industry,...

An Ambulance Man on duty during the bombing of of Peter Port

I saw the planes pass over, I was living — this was before I was married, of course, - saw the planes...

Barrage Balloons and bombs

The grey silky ‘elephant’ was in fact a barrage balloon put there to scare low flying...

Life better then or now?

Cathleen was worried about this happening because her mum and dad had told her about World War 1 and she...

Three aspects of WW2

The remarkable thing about this is that Coventry is about 40 miles from Derby and yet the conflagration...

A Stitch in Time

In Stratford E15 all the family lived in one house, our Granny, Aunt Liz, Uncle Bill, Maisie, Ronnie, Harry...

A Wartime Childhood Experience

Hastings, where I was born and lived for some eighteen years, became part of the front line during the war;...

Sewing and Doping Mosquitos

My name is Frances Johnston I was about 17 when I worked at Marshall's as a Fabric worker on the...

Memories of Luton during the war

Mum and us two kids all went down into the Anderson shelter, which was underground at the bottom of our...

A Grandstand View Of The Filton Raid, 1940

The Daylight raid on Filton Aircraft factory, September 1940. This incident might have been on the day of...

the may blitz 1941

My Mum, Dad, Sister and I, lived in a terraced house in Wavertree. I remember Dad used to go on...

Some of my war memories

We spent most of our nights in the Anderson shelters. One early morning my sister Sheila and I woke up and...

A CHILD LIVING THROUGH THE WAR

On one occasion I was with my dad and David; a Jerry plane was over the town and Dad was able to...

"Put that bloody light out!"

My great grandfather used to live in the Alms Houses by Pickering Park and when they dropped the land-mine...

THE DAY WAR BROKE OUT

Dad was working as a ‘clicker’ at Cinderella shoes in St Johns, and was then moved to the old...

Madge's Blitz Story

There was a bus depot, and the German's were machine gunning the bus crews who were going in and out of...

My Maltese War Experience

In April 1942, King George VI awarded Malta the George Cross for gallantry. On 8th September 1943, ships...

At Marston's Brewery

I was fourteen years old when I started at the Brewery in 1944 and I remember most mornings the German...

Bombed out of All Saints Road

The planes had been trying for days to bomb the factory, but it was well camouflaged. My mother was at home...

Coke saves the day.

He spent most of his time as a Haulage Contractor working with his father, delivering coke from the local...

Bomb Damage in Bristol

We were on our way down there and all of a sudden heard the rushing and screaming of a bomb coming down,...

Audrey Evans - Bombing in Sittingbourne

Although we were on the German bomber route to London, we never used the air raid shelter as my mother...

In Lincolnshire Skies

'I was nine when the war started living in south Lincolnshire.We had the Parachute Brigade stationed at...