Air Raids and Other Bombing

WW2 School Days on the Isle of Wight

My memories are of my school days at Bettesworth School at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. When the air raid...

Put that light out!

That is my Mum and Dad and three brothers, listening to gun fire and enemy planes going overhead. I joined...

George Brocklehurst's Story

I was still at school at the start of the war and when I was 13 I caught scarlet fever and had...

No Rollers in the Shelter. (Hull in the Blitz)

At this time I stayed with my parents at 18 Withernsea Street, Stoneferry ,Hull, which had Earle's...

Airfield Incendiaries

My father Thomas was in the auxiliary fire service, stationed at a small airfield called Hanworth Air...

It's Better Than the ARP

Now I'm an NCO and he commands the site He's got a sound locator a Lister and a light And a bloody...

Sunday Morning At St Pauls

My friends being in the Plainmoor area, I continued to visit and in particular carried on with my...

"The War Years"

At sixteen I joined the ARP to be a cyclist messenger and was attached to the post which was built near a...

AIR RAIDS ON BARROW-IN-FURNESS

Alex's family lived next door to Mr. George Holden, the manager of the shipyard at Barrow, and his...

A shell hits Maidstone

That was until, at rooftop height and to our left this massive aircraft, a German Me 109 loomed, had the...

Jumble Sale for Spitfire Fund and other stories

Moira, Margaret and Lillian had jumble sales in backyards and raised £4 and 4 shillings for the...

The early part of the War, Bristol

I was married at the beginning of the war and we were running a little Preparatory School for boys at...

Plane crash over Stanley Village

I also remember dad coming home one night and saying a German bomber had crashed near Stanton and he had...

Air Raids

When the sirens sounded we all went into the shelter. When the sirens went off the music changed to the...

Mum said I went a funny grey colour

My Mum worked at the Channel Laundry, which was then near the railway station, Aldrington Halt, where the...

Memories of Malta

My father was in the regular army and from Hong Kong my parents, brother and sister had a posting to Malta...

Memories of Wartime Lincoln Part 3

It was Trip Sunday and I'd been out playing with my friend Roy Johnson... One of them hit Coldbath...

Siren Parties

There house was declared unfit after a bomb droppped near their home so they moved to Nottingham and were...

Memories of Wartime 1939 - 1945

Our neighbour, Mrs Stewartwas blown from one end of the barn to the other landing amongst the hay!.. The...

Friend or Foe?

I remember I was a young girl of eight years old living in Silver town in East London, a plane flew over...

Isledon Road, Finsbury Park

I was about 14 years old when the War started and was living at home in Isledon Road, Finsbury Park, London...

My Wifes Story ( The First Doodle Bug in Caterham )

We were all injured from blast and flying glass and were taken to Caterham emergency Hospital in St...

The Buzz Bomb

In November 1944 I answered an ad in the New Statesman for a research assistant at the Fabian Society in...

Local Defence Volunteer in Cheshire

I then decided that I would join the Local Defence Volunteers which subsequently became the Homeguard. It...

Another Memory when the first bombs struck...

I remember walking down the High Street one day after a raid and was sad to see all the shop windows...

Tea Leaves

However, when I became of age to enlist I was called up in 1943 to work in the mines as a Bevin...