Air Raids and Other Bombing

Hiding in the Butchers!!

The very next minute the ack ack guns in Chatham Dockyard started... The reason the Butcher's was safer...

Staying on after the war

In 1943 my mum got a job as a housekeeper to a farmer in Ansley. There were some prisoners of war that...

Fire watching in Sunderland

During the War my father worked at the Royal Infirmary on Durham Road, Sunderland, in the pathology...

Crash Landing in Cornwall

We learnt many years later that he was on reconnaissance for the D-Day landings and he got shot and lost...

Memories

My husband-to-be arrived home on leave and was throwing stones at the window to rouse us - when he broke...

Putting Out Incendery Bombs

In the autumn of 1940 I lived on the edge of an airfield in North Essex. One evening five Incendery bombs...

"Bomber" Barton on Parade

"My Dog"

Fido was a little rascal; he stole brushes and mats etc. from people's homes... When war began, we were...

He'd gone all the way round

I remember the blackouts — everything was dark, you'd go up the road and you couldn't see a...

The night the Judicial building burnt down.

There were seven prisoners in the holding cells... You could here the prisoners....

Whitehall Cinema Bombing, 9th July 1943

I lived in Park Road, half mile from the Whitehall Cinema. My friend Roy Henn was working as a trainee...

A Boy's Adventure

A night in 1940 when incendiary bombs were dropped in Sevenoaks, one landed on the balcony of the house...

Daylight raid

When the war started, my Mother and I evacuated from Portsmouth away from such targets as the Dockyard,...

Memories from Turnditch, Derbyshire.

Memories from Turnditch, Derbyshire. I lived in Turnditch during the war and I remember 1 night German...

Out in the Day

I was 16 and lived with my mum, dad and younger sister in Tyseley and worked in Erdington doing office...

Lancasters Return

I can remember being in bed laid in bed at night — lying there listening to the bombers as our little...

A Bomb in Alveston, Derby

Early in the war this incendary bomb came through the roof of 33 Hollis Street in Alvaston, Derby... They...

Personal Memories of Mrs Robertina Earl

My recollections of World War II are the blackout, rationing which we managed very well, coupons for...

War in the Fields

Marise Relf who went to live in Bearsted with her parents in 1940 joined the land army in 1943 and went to...

1) The night I was born

My Mother had been evacuated from Portsmouth due to heavy bombing including incendiary fire bombs....

The German planes are coming!

I was born in 1933 was living in Colchester and remember being in bed with the measles when I said to my...

Life in Ipswich

We kept a few things in the shelter like a rug to keep us warm and a bottle of water, but you...

Gala during the War

I mind going to dances at the Happy Valley — we danced to all the latest tunes. I went to all the...

Trips Abroad

I also remember seeing Birkenhead in Liverpool ablaze after and air raid in 1941. I was a pay writer for...

Bombs at Patchway Primary

Felton, Bristol used to build military aircrafts, so it was always bombed. Once a German aircraft got...

Loud Enough To Wake The Dead

Barbara Crosher told of her Uncle Phil, a true practical joker, who received some of his own medicine...