Air Raids and Other Bombing

My Mum's umbrella

One morning my mum, a friend and I were walking to work when a plane began machine gunning. I tried to get...

From One Bombed House To Another

We were there only one night because of an Italian bomber which was tyring to bomb the Lagonda factory half...

They Bombed My Lodgings!

I then went to London working on bomb damage at Belvedere, Erith... One night we had an air raid and we got...

Sausage Sandwiches

During an air-raid we were all in the cellar my Mother, my Sister and myself and my Sister would insist on...

Anderson Shelters

We used to live in Burslem and we had the tin Anderson shelters in the garden. The school where I went at...

Shelter in the Cellar.

Steel bars were put up inside the cellar as a frame... One cellar was for the toilet....

House Bombed

Her husband joined the army, and the very first night he was sent away, Lily's house was bombed out,...

Our Air Raid Shelter & My Dad's Near Miss

My dad didn't though - he stood in the doorway of our house. When they bombed Coventry a piece of...

Part 2 of my Dad’s memories

Dad remembers watching the planes go over for the ‘1000 Bomber’ raids and thinking they'd...

2 shillings 6 pence for a cup of tea

Tea and sugar were very expensive it was 2 shilling and 6pence for a cup of tea....

Night Raid

I started work for Brittan Pash in Market Road in 1941, working on farm equipment with a man named Ernie...

Air Raids, Rations and Iron Walls

We would be half way through a lesson, then the sirens would go off and we had to go to the shelter....

Bombing of Sandhurst School, London, SE6

He then went in a straight line to Sandhurst School where he dropped his bomb killing many children and...

My Parent's War Experiences

My Dad, Bernard, was a fireman in London during the war. My mother, Inez, looked after my two sisters and...

Butterfly bombs

During the war the Germans dropped some particularly nasty bombs on Cleethorpes known as butterfly bombs,...

Why I went to live with Grandmother

It has made a big difference to me because I went to live with my Grandmother....

Fire on Beakney Street in Hull

We lived down Beakney Street in Hull....

School Girl Memories of the early 1940's

I remember going home from Queenstown School and one German aircraft machine-gunned up Regent Street, and...

Fire Watching

Lived in Leicester Causeway, father had built a brick air riad shelter, two thirds underground, garden...

Shot At

I was on my way to school with my friend it was a fine sunny day, when suddenly we heard a noise......

Thrown Out of an Air Raid Shelter.

It was going dark, it was 9pm, and there was an air raid, you, we went to our local shelter on Carr...

Eye to Eye with a German Bomber Pilot

The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme. When Chesterton...

'Lord Haw Haw' was wrong!

In the small harbour in Newlyn there were many fishing boats and also an old barge, partially sunken, which...

War time in Southwell, Farnsfield and Edingley

War time in Southwell, Farnsfield and Edingley...

The Blitz Birmingham and Coventry

At the height of the Blitz on Birmingham and Coventry I could see the German Aircraft turning for their run...

air raids on aberdeen

A bomb had landed between Menzies Road and Victoria Road and all the shop windows and house windows had...