Air Raids and Other Bombing

Free French Navy in Inverclyde

There was a church in Greenock called the Martyrs North Church and they gave their halls over to the Free...

Rushden's Bombings

ROBERTS STREET BOMB. Blast from bomb jammed doors of the Fire Station so that they could not be opened,...

Bombing Of The Goodstation.

The night the goodstation was bombed, I lived with my mother and father, brother John and baby sister,...

The Air Raids Bought People Together

We went under St. George's Hall, and as we were going through we could see all the sky lit up......

Expereinces at Sheffield Head Post Office

There were two yards at the rear of the Post Office building, into whicht he delivery vans drove with the...

My Memories as a Young Boy

While we were there, my father was on fire watch the night that the plane hit St. Matthias church. Myself...

A Teenager in the East End Blitz

If a raid started when we were at the factory we had to go down an outside iron staircase to the cellars...

Wartime Dundee

Dundee had shipyards, munitions factories and jute mills that were making millions of sand bags plus the...

City Centre Life

We would come out of the shelter then get ready for work or stand in the cue at Daniels pork butchers in...

Bombing of Haylands.

I had David my eldest son with me on November 12th and had been told to get gas masks for him at...

First week of April 1942

We thought it was perfect, no proper school till September but we had to go to a sort of hut and get...

25th And 27th September 1940 Raids On Patchway

This was the Wednesday 25th September 1940 bombing raid on the aircraft factories at Filton and Patchway....

The Day Sylvies Mum & Dads Front Door Blew Off

Mrs Wilson, known as Sylvie Rider during the War-time, remembers South Ockendon as playing a significant...

Myths of the Irish view exploded

It is often thought that Ireland gave no support to WW2; however, more young men from the Republic of...

My War Years 1939 - 1945 pt 3

One day when I went to school there was part of a German bomber shot down in the pool of the park...

Early memories of the blitz in SE London

I was 5 years old I lived at Stoneleigh Avenue, Worcester Park, Surrey I was living with my mum and dad and...

My Lovely War

� Dad said, “Yes, don’t come in!...

Working on the land in Kent

MACHINE GUNNING THE WORKERS

On my way back on my roller skates coming along Elm Road, I heard the sound of an aircraft which seemed...

War Memories

Also along the Derby ByPass - Raynesway there were lots of military vehicles parked. My Dad was in the Army...

We were Doodlebugged

Our parents did not want us evacuated so we lived in Bromley through most of the war. when boming took...

Kathleen Yearsley' War

I was 21 when war broke out and living in a hostel in London, called Ada Lewis House. It's the funny...

CANFORD CLIFFS - MEMORIES

Adrian lived in a house on Canford Cliffs near Bournemouth with his Dad, Brian and Mum, Margery....

Panic in an Air Raid

My father worked as a draughtsman at Swan Hunter's shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, and they lived...

Shattered Peace in Bourne

It was a dark night with all lights blacked out in the idyllic little market town of Bourne in South...

BOMBING RUN

We were under the flight path for bombing raids on Coventry... We were very lucky in that two bombs dropped...