Air Raids and Other Bombing

Two Close Calls

I was playing on the beach a short distance from my parents and two very young brothers, when I was grabbed...

Carrying Dad’s Beer

Dad used to have a quart of beer every week... Dad wasn't worried about his beer as long as I was safe....

Mice ate the Cheese!

Christmas Eve he was fire watching next door to the co-op warehouse, the night watchman showed him where...

The War And My Part In It

We lived in Liverpool, 8 Dingle, Toxteth, near the Docks, in a typical working class 2up-2down. It was...

Air Raids

There was a jewellery shop where the Harris arcade is, it had all been blown open and all the jewellery was...

Home Guard incidents

I heard the bomb dropping and it fell a few hundred yards from me, into a timber yard on the banks of...

Narrow Escapes

I was a secretary working in the office of Trinity House, the authority which looks after lighthouses...

Our Shelter was a hedge!

I attended school in North Cornwall. Plymouth suffered severe bombing and we could look across from...

My War Time story

SAD LOSSES

The canal, at the back of our house, shone in the bright light of what we used to call a "bombers...

bombed on a bus

Their son, Commander Didden and his wife came to stay for a holiday and asked if I would consider moving to...

Life in St Pauls Cray

John Ferris who is now 75 lived at Broomwood Road St Pauls Cray during the war and saw many incidents of...

The Day The Landmine Dropped

I was about 2 years old in my home on the lower end of Strathmore Ave Luton Beds, when the Landmine dropped...

Dick Barton Special Agent

The wireless was comforting, especially Children's Choice, Uncle Mac and Dick Barton Special Agent....

My War Time Story

Because of bomb damaged in St.Vincent Street we had to detour along Cowpen Road... One night after a...

One Night That Changed My Life

We we're walking up the main road to Hanley, to try and get a bus, or a lift, to Longport to my...

telephones, car lights and timber

At the outset of war Mawnan Smith, like Falmouth, had a manual telephone exchange. Because of the problems...

Honington Aerodrome 1939 -1943

I lived at a childrens home called Euston Hall, owned by the Duke of Grafton and run by Dr Barnados. On...

An Island Military Family (Chapter 4)

Our home was badly damaged but we were able to stay, with no heat, electricity, no windows, no ceilings, no...

Hardly Appropriate

There was a huge sense of relief at the end of the war, of course, but the dropping of the atomic bomb...

I Came Down Faster Than I Went Up.

I was an apprentice plumber in Bedford aged around 17 and I was working on the bandstand in Mill Meadows...

A NIGHT OF TERROR!

The next morning we found out that the bomb had fallen about 4 am in Farmers Road, Camberwell, London,...

Daylight Raid on Reading

The bomb had made a direct hit on the British Restaurant where people often went for a cup of tea in the...

Wartime memories of Stewarton

I also remember that along one of the roads out of Stewarton, there were old mine workings and there were...

Lucky John

In 1940 during the Batlle of Britain and the Blitz I was 11 and nearly didnt make it to 12. as on...

Rolls Royce

A girl in a white Mac came running down Osmaston Park Road followed by a German plane which came down the...