Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Anderson shelter worked!

This gave them a larger garden, and they had an Anderson shelter well away from the house, at the end of...

ARP work

One moonlit night my partner and I were patrolling the dockland area when we heard the drone of airplane...

Aberdeen

The blast blew a piano from the dining room into the sitting room where Mrs Craig and Mrs Anderson were...

Cyril's blitz egg-citement

My father Cyril Thomas was born in 1934, his sister Hilary was born a couple of years later. On this...

A bomb falls on Monkwearmouth

The big anti-aircraft gun based in the L.N.E.R stables in Easington Street facing Richmond Street opened up...

Memories of the War on Portland and Bridport.

My Gran was very frightened by the bombing, one of the bombs dropped so close to the back door that it blew...

Peter Rainer - German Crash Near Ashford

Most of the German crew had been flung forward into the nose of the plane in the crash, three of them, and...

Holy City

I was 6 year old boy at the time when in December 1940 a Land-mine was dropped and landed on the Liberal...

The First Nine Years of my Life

The toilet block was in the centre of the yard and was shared by two families per toilet. Our area on...

A classroom incident In Chepstow

The plane then fly over the camp machine gunning and killed one boy named Thorton who was running from the...

V E Day Memories of Stuart Carr

I remember being woken up in the night and running down the garden to our Anderson Shelter, and listening...

My Memories of WWII

She would never come into the Anderson shelter and one day after a particularly bad blast my Grandmother...

Listening out for the doodlebugs in De Beauvoir

June grew up in De Beauvoir Crescent in a home that backed onto the Regent's Canal. After the war...

Take Cover

This was called “the black out” and all the windows of the houses had to have curtains that...

Anderson Shelter in our Front Yard

Dad came to fetch Lily and me one Sunday and there were a lot of tearful farewells as we departed where we...

BOUNCING BOMBS

It lined itself up with Rockbeare straight, on the A30, too low for bombing really. We went down to...

A young woman during the war

But one night I was at the dance, just down there at the end of Cavendish Street, Saint Paul's. Around...

The Night the Bomb Dropped.

My mother, step father, Mrs Hodel and her son Jim from next door, were sitting on the benches... The light...

Birmingham bombs then into the Army

And I went all through the bombing in Birmingham; we lived in the cellar for six months....

Fire Watching in Priory Church

In the summer months when it got very hot and really very uncomfortable in the parish hall, we would take...

Air Raid Messenger

My friends and I went to the sunday school to help there, the men were packing posts for gasmasks, and the...

My Father's Experience in the ARP

During the war I lived with my parents and my sister in Kent on the outskirts of London... My Brother-in...

Anti - personell bombs dropped on Grimsby.

Anti - personell bombs dropped on Grimsby. Because this event was kept secret until well after the war was...

The Three Bombs

During a bad raid, a bomb hit Victoria Park, by the railway,. A second bomb hit, and destroyed five houses,...

The first night of the war

When the Germans bombed places in the UK, Charlie checked his maps to find the places such as Coventry and...

Wartime in Constantine

There were seven ARP Wardens, one was the vicar who was a bachelor the Rev Graves, he was a missionary in...