Air Raids and Other Bombing

Gamekeeper to the Duke of Wellington

My grandfather was a gamekeeper to the Duke of Wellington at Stratfield....

I MISS THAT NOW

When we came to Coventry it was already badly bombed... I got a job at a bicycle shop in New Buildings,...

Our Honeymoon

The German pilot unleashed a number of bombs which fell into a field just beyond the houses in Porthleven...

Finding The Radio

We went into an old mill on Marple Road, and in the basement found a radio covered by sacking... Father...

Air Raid Shelter

One Christmas Eve, when we were sheltering, one thought troubled me; would Father Christmas be able to find...

Wartime life

We lived in Ardwick then and hated it to be evacuated, my mother came to see me on my 14th birthday which...

Patricia Connop's memories of VE Day

But some of the RAF boys who were billeted next door just got the ladder and put it up to the windows....

The 1st Cinema

We returned with lorry loads of seating and projectors from bombed cinemas in London. We made a cinema with...

A 6 Year Old War Evacuees Stories

Rolls Royce shifts used to pass each other in nightingale Rd and one morning two German planes got through...

Scouse Siren

My Dad worked long hours, and when he came home, Mum would always cook him Scouse... Just as Dad was about...

St John’s hospital for sick kids

I was about 5 when I went to St John's Hospital and I was in the hospital during the Clydebank Blitz....

Childhood Memories - During a Bombing Raid

During a bombing raid the picture on the bedroom wall rattled and swung out... We lived so near the sea and...

Flatened and tilted

The whole area in London was bombed out, houses flatened, but my house had just tilted to the right. I just...

RATIONING

I was taken to see evidence of bombing at the pavilion on Victoria Park, and heard that there was some at...

Train Attacked by Plane

During the 2nd world war his engine was hit by a German bomber — he pulled his fireman down from the...

London's First Air Raid

Fortunately, Winnie's mum realised they were bombs and they both rushed in to the coal cellar. It's...

Living under occupation - children's games - shrapnel

British planes passing over to France, probably around Normandy and Brittany. Hardly before the air raids...

Living near the Gun Factory

The Gun Factory was at one end of us and the factory making shells was at the other end and three was...

Life in Bedford

My brother in the Army and one in the Navy, worried about them but they came through safely. After the war...

Bombs and bombers over Salisbury

Salisbury escaped much bombing because they used the cathedral as a marker en route from the coast up to...

Childhood Memories in Torquay

The sirens went and I was waiting for my Dad, who was in the Navy. I clung to the railings and Mum...

Dad's 'radar'

My father, James William Laverick, was in a reserved occupation working in the shipyards in Sunderland......

Fire Service

I used to work 7.30am to 5.00pm in a full time job and then do 2 nights a week in the control...

Sunk

While convalescing in Torquay in June 1942, we were waiting for the gong to go for lunch when a plane flew...

DOROTHY WALSH IN THE AIR RAID SHELTER

Some of the air raid shelters where Dorothy lived in Leeds were home-made, using corrugated iron and...

Musty Air Raid Shelter

We lived in Higher Blakely, Manchester... We lived on the cricket field and we had a stone air-raid...