Air Raids and Other Bombing

The "Whitehall" Cinema bombing

I can remember the day when the German plane came down over the town and bombed the Whitehall cinema....

Aberdeen bombing (1943)

My most vivid wartime memory dates from 1943 when the Germans were bombing Stafford Street, Fraser Place...

Dougrll Gillham

On two occasions a german bomber droped a bomb at captain howers little railway and killed people and also...

A Lone Bomber

The next day my grandma on my dad's side of the family came round... Dad said they had been no bombs...

Walking Skeletons

I was in Coventry when the first bomb fell. It hit Coventry....

"Fire Watch or Card School !"

As my father-in-law Alf Williams, was unable to serve in the forces during the war because of his TB...

A suitng cloth crater

After a night of bombing over Stoke Newington, my father, an air raid warden was shepherding all the...

Flying Shelter

When the sirens went my stepmother and two sisters or whoever was at home at the time, would go into the...

Don't tread on anything in the garden!

Dad had an allotment so he grew vegetables for everyone in the street and we were told not to tread on...

Ash

One evening sitting there when the siren had sounded, Mum, who was a heavy smoker, suddenly remembered she...

Something on the roof

On Landmere Lane we had these massive guns they were huge. I remember a particular night during a raid on...

A Damp Air-Raid

As I was walking the air raid sirens went off. The sirens continued and I was so frightened that I stood...

Parachute bomb falls in Mottingham

Suddenly the siren went and there were incendiary bombs dropping all the tim....

Feeding Malta

I was serving on HMS Havoc delivering supplies around the coast of Malta....

A narrow escape

I was going home from school fairly early on in the war.The school in question was Fulbridge Road Junior...

What Was It All For?

I was living in Apsley Cotts, Chartham near Canterbury during the war with my older brother and sister and...

Mr Baxter

Our neighbour was called Mr Baxter and he used to love to watch the air raids going on from his front...

Back to Front

At Lyng, near Norwich, 2 miles from Weston Longville, Glen Miller played in the hanger on the airfield....

Derby Raids

I can remember there being a gun on the Arboretum, also coming home one night after the Germans had bombed...

The Hoaxer

A plane crash in Morayshire

During the war, I lived at Nether Burnie Farm Cottages. On the other side of the river was Manbeen...

Charlie Hudson's Bus

Charlie's bus was a twenty seater he ran every hour from Saxilby to the Brayford Pool in Lincoln. As...

The Beech Tree

As a child I never thought I would be grateful to the big spreading beech tree close to my home. The...

Rations and Blackouts

My Memories of the war are; I was 9 years old and my sister who was 2 ½ years older, used to...

Air raid shelter

Because of this my Mother told myself and my two sisters to return back to the house, along with the dog......

The Air Raid Shelters

I had my own in my back garden on Grace Road, but I still used to go to the one on the...