Air Raids and Other Bombing

German Navigator - Misguided Bomber!

I was a pupil at Bristol Technical School near Bedminster Bridge. One morning my friend excitedly told me...

Air Raids

One day David looked out of his window and saw a German aircraft flying over Werrington School,...

WARTIME LIFE IN LIVERPOOL

My sister Sybil joined the Women's Army. She was a Plotter, stationed near Andover, Hampshire. I joined...

India Buildings

When we got there, my friend and I sweet talked to a fireman and told him the tale that we had a...

Swanage Tales - Radar

These are my husband's memories: Doug joined the TRE in Dundee at 16... They attended many dances at...

The Bombing of the Odeon Cinema, Brighton

We went along to the Odeon Cinema in Kemp Town, Brighton, to watch "The Ghost Comes Home....

What's Inside An Incendiary Bomb? This Time Curiosity Did Not Kill the Cats!

Incendiary bombs also fell and one day my workplace had a visit from one. One of our drivers found an...

Memories of a 94 year old

My husband worked in the Dock Police on the River Tyne and when the siren went whatever time of the day or...

Battle of Britain over Stanmore

My route was Stanmore Hill to London Road and thence to Cannons Park and Edgeware. On this particular...

Bombed in Birmingham

I was born in 1938 and my parents came from Birmingham, my father was in the RAF stationed in Cornwall then...

Margaret’s Memories

During the war, the family moved to London and father Harold who had a leather furniture business and often...

Air Raid

It was rare to see any planes in Yorkshire but this particular night the Germans were flying over Leeds...

Eighty Seven Ashted Row

The sirens sounded and my mum was soaking a large towel in cold water she said it was to wrap around next...

WW2 in Derby

Markeaton Park was turned into a military base and the first lot in were Asian, with turbans, which I'd...

Flying bombs

It was midsummer 1944 when at about 9 o'clock in the evening we heart the sound of a flying bomb...

BALED OUT IN BAMPTON

I am from Devon, was married there in 1940 and farmed at Druids Hayne, Bampton, Devon. We were very fond of...

Dornier bomber crashes at Whitstable

When we came out people were saying a German Dornier bomber had crashed at Seasalter, a little way up the...

Cambridge during the war

One night quite early in the war we had incendiary bombs dropped all over Parkers Piece, we had the Cam Tax...

Tragic Accident

Her story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. It...

Boy’s view of the anti-aircraft battery above Cranham

Their job was to man the anti-aircraft batteies high on the Cotswold escarpment at Brotheridge and a...

Kathleen's story

When the war broke out my husband had a greengrocer's shop in Westbury-upon-Trym in Bristol. So...

Wartime Memories of Ure Jones

I remember going on to Widmill Hill outside Enfield to watch the dogfights in the sky above. However I went...

My Life During WW2 (aged 6)

Living 20 miles from Derby which was then the heart of the Rolls Royce Engine Manufacturing industry we...

Waste Not, Want Not

I was going to my main office in Wimpole Street on a particular lunchtime, and as I walked across a...

Lucky Escape

It was 1942 and I was around 7 years old and we watch a German bomber who was hedge hopping — he...

The Lone German Fighter Plane

My most vivid memory of WW2 was of the day whn my school was machine-gunned by a lone German plane. I was...