Air Raids and Other Bombing

Time as a "Fire Watcher"

This entailed spells of duty on the roof of buildings to smother any incendiary bomb in our section with...

It was full of bombs

In the morning, after spending the night in the shelter, we'd go off to school and we used to collect...

War Memories

The building shook and Tony's grandfather is quoted as saying: "This is it!.. The crash in fact was...

A night at the Flicks

On this particular night ,the film was "Edison the Man" starring Spencer Tracey and I was seated at...

ON MUNITIONS

We got to Foleshill Road: there were lots of incendiaries - the wardens had to put them out - a clothes...

BRAVE ACTS

I could hear the aircraft and the 'whizz bombs'. It was probably when they bombed Royces and I was...

When I realised the danger

When the sirens sounded my mum, at first, took me into the Anderson Shelter in the garden. Some months...

Downed German plane in Dundee

When he came back he had, wrapped up in his jacket, a large chunk of metal from the downed German fighter...

The shape of things to come.

In 1941 while my husband R.George medhurst was a student at Cambridge, his mother Mrs. Edith medhurst,...

Ack-Ack Outside

They used to park the Ack-Ack Guns outside of your house, they'd shoot the planes as they came down the...

Allotment Start

He said to us “Come on lads get the tools put away in the shed and get things tidied us. They said...

My Cousin Edna

My cousin was called Edna Payne. Whilst Edna's Fiancé stayed at the camp working, his friend and...

"Meet you down the bomb debris" a story from Tufnell Park

All the children in the area would meet on the bomb damage site to play mums and dads and build houses...

"We'll have no Anderson shelter in our back garden - Zepplins will never reach this far!"

I remember once the sirens went off and we headed for the shelter - we heard an aircraft overhead and 3...

American at a Bus Stop

There seemed a lull in raids on Birmingham so we all went to a dance at Handsworth, no buses running and we...

Volunteer Fire Watch

One night there was a very heavy bombing around us, they had been dropping incendiary bombs, I had to go up...

Eric Allaway

My brother Eric joined the RAF in the later part of 1940 and flew with the Lancaster Bomber crew as a rear...

Stockings and Soap

They used to park the Ack-Ack Guns outside of your house, they'd shoot the planes as they came down the...

Experience of a nurse during the war

They came over and bombed London and we had the front of our house blown out, and the back. I was taking...

LONDON ROAD STATION

About an old lady who lived with her daughter near London Road Railway station. Because they were so scared...

Running Home Through the Blitz

I lived in Stamford Hill, north London, and I had gone with two friends to the cinema... There were...

Lucky Escape

The move coincided with a German attack on Cardiff Docks. Mother and her brother were walking down their...

2 Bomb incidents in Worthing

I saw his bomb doors open and about half a dozen bombs came down. The bombs landed in Leigh Road, Worthing....

Life in Queensferry during the war

That was in Queensferry, North Wales... In the end, they did drop two bombs in a field at the back of us,...

Old Dog Bob

I used to worry at night that a German plane would come and bomb our house but we knew that old dog...

Fire Engine In Action

It crashed at a paper mill at Buckland Mill... It turned out he was an English pilot from the Hurricane...