Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Bombs of Merry Vale Avenue in Hinckley

My future husband lost 2 aunties and an uncle in the bombing in Merry Vale Avenue — they were in two...

Action of Experience

We were with all the neighbours in our brick built air raid shelter listening to the gunfire of the anti...

The Tin Helmet

As the raids became less frequent the garden air raid shelter became my 'den' and I repainted the...

Those were the days

Then I became full-time in the National Fire Service stationed at “D” division in Grange Road,...

Half a lamp on the road to the Birth of my Daughter

At the time they were bombing Bristol. My father was in the AFS stationed at Bridgewater and worked a lot...

Vivid Memories of Wartime Childhood

Vivid Memories of Wartime as an 11- to 14-years old in Eltham, London, SE9 between 1942 and 1945. Doing a...

My Expeditions with Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom worked at Scampton as one of the ground staff, he used to bike there. Another day we biked into...

Sights and sounds remembered by a school girl

My eldest brother was called up into the army, the others helped with fire watching and home guard duty. We...

My Wartime Memories - The End of the War Celebrations

Walking down the road in my new summer sandals they were coloured green and clog like, having wooden soles...

My lovely sister

This is the story of my sister Esther Varney....

No sweeties for us

On one occasion we all marched off, from school at Bewdley, to the American Army camp which was at Burlish,...

Machine Gunned in London 1940

My sister worked at Boots in Catford and one day they brought in many of the children who had been machined...

An Afternoon of Death in Chesterton Part 3

I ran out to the back yard and my uncle Ern said he saw the plane over Chesterton and a lot of...

Memories from the Military Police

I was in Mychett working at the record office of the military police. Our unit were invited to a dance just...

A plane at the bottom of my aunt's garden

The German plane landed at the bottom of Warne Road, on the allotments, at the bottom of my aunt's...

Wedding Day

They were bombing around Coventry, so mum, John, myself and Sheila the dog spent a lot of that night under...

My Time as an ARP

One particular night the Germans did come over and they dropped a land mine in Thomas Street in East...

Put That Light Out!

My brothers were in the army; one of them was in the Grenadier Guards serving in London. They brought them...

Premonition Saved My Father's Life

He had trained on Salisbury Plain, but he was sent to Malta and put on Anti War Craft Guns. He was acting...

A near miss

At the end of our road was Barking Town Football Club ground... My brother was sleeping on the top bunk and...

An Afternoon of Death in Chesterton - Part 1

When the bombs dropped the houses across from us took a direct hit, my family were down stairs when it...

Explosive Souvenir

Me and three friends aged 13 and 14 used to go searching for souvenirs of shrapnel after raids... We...

Wondering About Charlie Balham

My sisters, friends and I used to play in dry bomb craters and bomb damaged houses with blown off doors and...

Raids in Derby - and in Ambleside

There were lots of raids in Derby because of Rolls-Royce and the Railway and the sirens sounded pretty well...

Wartime memories of my grandfather, John Mallon (died 7/4/2004) by Christina

In my grandfather's half destroyed house was a budgie cage; the female was dead, but the male was alive...

The Wounded Ones

We had evacuee children at Sedgefield School... Mum, Florence Gibson, became a volunteer Red Cross Nurse at...