Air Raids and Other Bombing

My time at Hawkers and a lucky escape at the Battle of Britain

He dropped his bombs on the Vickers Armstrong factory in Weybridge who were producing Wellington bombers....

the hogarths of birmingham

My younger sister Joan was born in 1940, about the time when Coventry was bombed. Miss Manning became a...

Mollie's Memoirs 1940-45

Another of the incendiary bombs went through the roof of Mrs Kaye's and landed in a box room that was...

A Snapshot from the 39/45 War in Kent

After briefly being evacuated to Witney in Oxfordshire, I returned home to Hewitt House, a guesthouse in...

Morris Motors and Berlin

We used to hear the German planes flying over, on their way to bomb Coventry and cities further north....

Wartime Memories - Lincolnshire

I was in Foxby Hill isolation hospital at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, with Diphtheria. Later, whilst...

Fighting with a Spanner

Whilst I was working in Gosport, my bed was burnt out by an incendiary bomb; also while I was there I...

Torquay Church Tragedy

My brother and I were at Sunday School in the Church Hall; our sister, being older, was in the church. The...

I Remember Douglas Barder!

He came to Coltishall to take over a group of Canadian's — the Hurricane Squadron. Gerry used to...

Bombs in Birmingham

We always kept two buckets of water and two buckets of sand on the landing with a stirrup pump to pump the...

Five ladies stories from Consett

Olive Campbell Todd was called up in November 1942 and demobbed in April 1946 to Pay Corps in Leeds....

Life in Moorpark

One night during an air raid, my mum and I and our neighbour with her children were all camped out in the...

How our flooded shelters saved our lives

I remember hearing the bombs and the airplanes going over, but when I woke up in the morning I was shocked...

Wartime Yeovil

When war came, my mum and Joan were at School, Daphne lived in Westfield Grove with her husband, Tom, who...

Michael Wilcox's Wartime Memories of Bedford

I don't know how many bomb raids there were in Bedford but I can remember when I lived in Maitland...

Memories of the Blitz

I can remember being told by the ARP Wardens to get out as soon as possible due to unexploded bombs being...

Life on a farm in Mawnan, Falmouth

The army had four anti aircraft guns and each regiment took and brought their own machinery. The army and...

Gas Works at Snodland

Before the war my father, Walter Alfred Barnett was Engineering Manager at Barnet Gasworks. Later he...

Barrage Ballons

Living within an area, which was bounded by Shipyards, Steel Works, Railway Marshalling Yards, and one of...

A Spy thought to have come from the Doomed Aircraft

Still in Polegate a friend of my sister, Maurice Staplehurst witnesses a UK bomber who had been hit on...

A bomb and a plane crash in Northampton

She and my grandfather Sydney kept a painter's and decorator's shop at 16, Grove Road, Northampton,...

Bombing of Chesterfield

When a German aircraft was returning home it dropped a bomb on some houses in Tupton, I think eight people...

Lufftwaffe in Malta

She was engaged to Tommy Carter an Army Warrant Officer who was a super chap, tall dark and handsome. I...

My recollections of the bombings of Gainsborough

I had started at junior school, Benjamin Adlards Sandsfield Lane, there they had been air raid shelters...

Margaret Elliott's War

I seem to remember I was 17 when the bombs started in earnest and they continued to bomb Liverpool and...

Two Brothers Experiences

One incendiary bomb fell into one of the dormer bungalows nearby in Filton. Though they had dropped bombs...