Air Raids and Other Bombing

War time experiences in Queen's Park, Bedford

Coventry Road, Queen's Park, Bedford. She went to the Plumstead High School in London and they were...

Chelmsford & Brentwood 1940

After a couple of days of arriving in Brentwood, on this particular day my sister had left my Aunt's...

Schoolboy Souvenir Collecting.

During the war nearly every schoolboy collected items such as parachute remnants, army badges or bits of...

You can't blackout the moon

Of course Henry used a lot of words They're really not worth knowing As round the front he dashed to...

Alan Bradley's Story

Another memory, there being a bombing raid overnight and a landmine parachute got caught in a tree outside...

Memories of the Blitz

I lived in Liverpool and when the Germans' bombs started coming we were allowed to use a shelter at the...

After the frantic years of the blitz

3 An incendiary bomb dropped down our bedroom chimney. 4 By then, Dad had perfected our air-raid shelter 5...

We weren't prepared for war at all

We had a lot of fun in the W.A.F as it has only just opened — we were the first girls there,...

Jean Davison’s Memories

Germans tried to bomb these, sometimes the bomb fell very near us — 120 yds from us there was a...

First Unexploded Bomb In Tunbridge Wells

A flying bomb was 'winged' by fighters over the country side to the east of Tunbridge Wells....

'You haven't got me yet!'

Margaret Jones was living in a Children's Home in Shillingford when World War 2 broke out, and her...

Allscott Sugar Beet Factory Raid - 1940

One Saturday, I think it was August 1940, in the early afternoon a squadron of German Bombers attacked the...

Mass air raid

I remember shouting “get the children down in that ditch” and we watched as a squadron of...

Grandfather's dilemma

By this time the Germans were dropping their bombs anywhere just to get away from the R.A.F. who were...

Air Raids At New Hall

My grandmother lived in New Hall, Sutton Coldfield. We were near the railway line going near to the Castle...

Sardines In A Canterbury Anderson Shelter

It was 1st June 1941, I was seven years old, living in 15 Querns Road, St Martin's Hill, Canterbury...

Bombing in Maidstone

After a while little black objects started to fall from beneath the planes, just at that moment I was...

May's WW2 Recollections.

The German Prisoners of War were stationed at Sunnyhill barracks. They did drop a bomb on Derby Lane and...

The wardens bust the door down

All of a sudden we heard more bombs coming down and then the wardens told us to duck. We had to go...

"Sunday Night Raid"

My friend Arthur Buckley formerly of Burley Grove Downend, served as a regular soldier firstly in the...

J Jarrett

We used to go dancing in Shepherd's Hall in Old Market. In Shetland Rd there was a wooden building, a...

The Bomb on Woodhall Spa

Mum and grandma and I stayed in bed. Mum worked for Dr George Armour and his wife was badly injured and his...

Heads down for the Afternoon

Every night we go to bed and the sirens would go off and the wardens would go around and he used to...

It was Great to be in Long Trousers

It was getting towards the end of the bombing that I joined the P.A.M.S.. I did not fancy the idea but some...

Norman Grayston misses the midden — luckily!

I had been in the above-ground Air Raid shelter at Brookside, close to the Courtaulds factory at Grimsargh,...

The Doodlebugs

Needless to say I didn't learn much and half the time I skived off - preferring to lead my gang of...