Air Raids and Other Bombing

Miscellaneous Memories

1939 Wheatley Street Junior... My brother fell down the steps and damaged his eyes and eventually became...

German Bombers

Worked at Ransom, Simms and Jeffries, at the bottom of our garden, we could see the German Pilots on the...

Safe Again

He grabbed the bucket and threw the contents on the bomb - It was water! The bomb 'wooshed' up and...

A Random Bomb Dropped in Lisburn

There was a farmer and he lived on the Brokerstown Road, his name was Duncan and one of his fields got a...

Into the Shelter

Tom Fleming was my father and tells the tale of coming off two till ten shift at the local Steelworks.My...

Raising Funds For The Merchant Navy

I can remember my mother Lydia Knowles holding raffles for the Merchant Navy... The Italian prisoners of...

Sportsman Pub. Hedon Road. Hull.

We went down Hedon Road in Hull to visit the Sportsman Pub for a pint or three... My dad was an Irishman...

Crater Baby

Home Guard, on behalf of Anne Hughes and has been added to the site with Mrs. Hughes’...

Landmine Hanging In A Parachute

One day when we were leaving Kings Cross and going through the tunnels there was a landmine hanging from a...

Nights in the Shelters

We were a big family, my mother used to get us kids ready, just after 6pm she'd take us to Shipstones...

"Elsie and the Shop Dummies!"

My mummy got a job at the ARP station, Mapperley Road in the canteen... The mamager of the ARP says to Mrs....

Wash Day

My mother was getting the washing in and I was just a toddler playing in the garden. She threw me with...

Life on the forts

I was involved in the loading of the guns during action stations, otherwise I was painting the outside of...

Friendly German

One day me and my friend Derek Seear were walking over the damaged houses looking for bits of shrapnal,...

Homes were bombed

Joan Dyball On the Sunday night that they came over my Auntie got bombed, she was living in flats so she...

My experience of WW2

I remember that the first bomb that was dropped landed on Bolton and Pauls Factory in Norwich. They were...

My Father

Their job was to run out to repair the damaged runway after it had been bombed, so the planes could land...

Lights Out!

I was in the Home Guard during the war and on duty at Forest Hall railway station one night I "put...

'Yes M'ame'

I was in the ATS during the war and the funniest thing that happened was this: I gave him a very smart...

Fire Pump Trailer

During the war we lived in Limes Avenue, Pinehurst, every time the sirens sounded Father would walk and...

Putting out the bombs

They never had an Anderson Shelter and his mum used to go in a cubby hole under the stairs and was never...

I Can See You!

My name is Grace Meehan of Marden High School and I am entering this story on behalf of Brenda Copeland. It...

Lodge Hill Cemetery

I lived in Wheely Castle, Birmingham, opposite Lodge Hill cemetery... Once a bomb landed on the cemetery....

War Time Memories

At four years old i went into Coventry and Warwickshire hospital to have my tonsils removed, luckly for me...

Keeping Lookout

On one occasion a spitfire got into trouble overhead and was flying low, a lad peered above the lookout...

Coventry

At the same time, my father was by the People's Pantry in Friar Street and the bomb was dropped on...