Air Raids and Other Bombing

Babysitting brings the house down

The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme. The lady said if...

Under The Bridge With My Mum

Andrew Davis, the conductor was born at the same time a few miles away. We lived with my grandparents and...

MTBs in Wincolmlee

We came across the above image of Bryan and his cousin Eric, who was later to become a Navy Articifer...

Met in an Air Raid Shelter

I was sitting next to me Mam, it was a big family, we got out but me Mam got killed. And the...

Sooty Grandma'

We were just going out of the door when I realised I had forgotten the apple pie... We hurried up to the...

Counting them home

My neighbour, Eric Dudley, was a fishmonger on Luton... He became a Squadron Leader on Lancasters....

Walkin the Streets

I was a young wife and my husband wqas away serving. Angelesey Street, Lozells School was the public...

New baby in the Blitz

In 1942 at the end of June the house was bombed and we were in the shelter at the bottom of the...

Abbotsbury and Portland, Dorset

There was more bombs landed on Portland per square yard than anywhere in England. As a junior LDV Home...

I didn't see my friend again

Joan and her mother had sheltered in the cellar but her elder sister had stayed in the bedroom and had been...

They bombed our chip shop

When the Germans bombed Sheffield, straggling planes which had still got their bombs dropped them on...

Sid and his Gun

Any way, whilst this was going on our next door neighbour appeared on his doorstep with a double-barrelled...

What the Blazes, no Water?

In the Manchester blitz, my future husband and I got stuck in the Odeon cinema during an air raid......

Miracles during German Bombing

The Incidents of the bomb at St Peters. We were in Malta… There was a Church, and a German bomb went...

UNEXPECTED BONUS

The 1/5 Battalion of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment were stationed at Carrickfergus in 1941. One of the...

Vicar's own gas bomb

We had a positive shower of incendiary bombs in and around the Richmond Street allotments. The then vicar...

Duck!

One morning there was the sudden sound of a low flying aircraftand the AA gun opened up. There had been no...

Bombs at Shatterford

I was five when war broke out and lived on a farm in rural Shatterford with my parents, 3 brothers and 1...

The Warden

During the War, a bomb dropped in Nottingham near where my Aunt and her two babies lived, it was on Truman...

Missing from the shelter!

The sirens went, so my mother collected blankets etc. and wrapped me in an eiderdown as usual, before...

St Eval Landmine

I was 6 or 7 when the landmine landed at St Eval Airfield... Father was milling corn in St Issey with the...

Bomb hits cinema

During the war a bomb hit the Ritz Cinema... The next night the man was rewiring film in the projection...

Crash and Burn

I witnessed two aeroplanes crashing in to each other — they came up and then crashed, one fell back...

Victim of an Air raid

I had been on duty during a fairly light raid and when the all clear went I accompanied one of the girls...

War Time School Days at Stubbington, Hampshire

I remember when I was about 8 years of age, going to the Junior School at Stubbington in Hampshire... Like...

Kathleen's story

As a matter of fact it was the biggest bomb that was ever dropped on Ipswich during the War... Personally,...