Air Raids and Other Bombing

Evacuee 1941

Later in 1941 the Air-Raids on Hull intensified severely and the authorities decided to evacuate as many...

V.E. Day, Sirens and Maggie's Teeth

This women and her family heard the sirens and ran in for the neighbour next door and they said to her,...

The Bomb!

Mum and Dad had some old Polish friends they used to play cards with and with all the disturbance had lost...

My Childhood Memories of the Home Front during World War Two

Later, Dad was posted abroad, and although the British Forces were not to tell anyone where they were...

A Kaleidescope of Characters

We learned that Winnie and Ron, on a visit to an aunt living nearby, took shelter in the Anderson dugout in...

Schoolboy Memories

Although Portsmouth and Southampton, on each side, were hard hit, Fareham escaped the worst of the bombing....

Life in Hemel Hempstead during the War

Outside of school hours, these children were housed in wooden huts at Pixies Hill. The next morning we...

Agnes' story part2

The bus was flying the British flag, but the German Youth Movement ignored our Heil Hitler sign as we...

A Halifax Crash in Bomber County

On the night of 3-4th March 1945 Halifax Mark111 bomber, No.NR250 HD/N from 466 Squadron R.A.A.F, belonging...

Bevan Boys - Down the Mines

Emergency meetings were called in the House and Ernest Bevin then Minister of Labour put a proposal that a...

A Wartime Wedding

The whole village helped with our wedding, giving Mum little bits of their rations... We weren't...

Delphine of the Dings War - Spring to Summer 1942

We had remarked that, as a temporary measure, the buses that usually started from Carey's Lane and Old...

World War Two

Needing a chicken for Sunday lunch Mum didn't do a very good job of strangling the oldest bird and the...

My Memories of Wartime Coventry

The First Air Raids After we had been there about two years the first air raids on Coventry started on the...

Mother On the Home Front

I was living with my Mum at the top of an old-fashioned house in Birkenhead when I had my first real...

Air Raid in Birmingham

A kindly lorry driver picked Dad up a few miles outside Birmingham and took him to Stow-on-the-Wold. As he...

Letter to my Sister

What a night! one old lady dead in one bedroom, another as bad as she could be in the other, Tony and...

Evacuation to South Wales

There was a snooker table in the village hall and I would spend my meagre pocket money there at lunch...

Recollections of the War: Derbyshire

Their drone was very different to our bombers, and we could hear theirs come over Shirebrook, turn and go...

One Child's War Part 3 Blitzes and Bombshells by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It was generally assumed that the Germans were attempting to bomb the Stockport railway viaduct, which was...

What a Night. 19th February 1944 @ 01.15!

My elder sister Rita had already married and was living in Shepherds Bush, whilst my brother Andrew was...

Evacuation Memories - from Heaton to the Ingram Valley

I was evacuated with my brother Walter; I was 7, and my sisters Ethel (9), Agnes (11) and Susie (13)....

My Memories & Involvement in WW2

It is impossible for today's generation to imagine how very dark our villages and towns were during the...

Scars of World War Two

Dad had taken me with him to a teacher's meeting in Sheffield, no one was to know that Sheffield would...

The People's War

At Dunkirk they all lay on a sandy beach, while German Bombers flew along the back of the beach...

Kathleen Bean-Things I Remember

When the siren went, she used to come to our house because our cellar was bigger- it had an arch over and...