Air Raids and Other Bombing

German Raider over Leicester in daylight

During the lunch break, a solitary German plane emerged from low clouds, heading North....

Our Shelter.

We had a Morrison Shelter which was a big metal table with a grid underneath to put a mattress on. Every...

Taking Shelter

Olive Brunskill remembers going into the bomb shelters on Carter Street in Middlesbrough where her family...

Living with the Germans - danger from Shrapnel

And hardly before the air raids were over and the siren had sounded the ‘All Clear’ we were...

No Santa in this Chimney

My father in law, James Ford, "Jim", or "Pop", as I called him, was an officer in Bomb...

Air Raid Memories

My memory of the air-raid my sister and myself would sit by our kitchen door waiting for the air-raid siren...

Born during the war

My mother was evacuated because we lived in Glasgow, she was supposed to go to Southern General Hospital...

Snatches from a childhood in the war

What stays in my mind is being in my mothers arms on the way to an air raid shelter when a convoy...

War Time Memories Around Saxilby 8

Just down the road from where I live now, at Broadholme, I remember a plane crashing minutes before...

Bombs.

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

The Marshes

Two parachuted out, one landed in a carrot field, the second one landed at Hardwick on top of Harold...

Attack by German Plane

At the same time a man with a herd of sheep and a german plane crossed over head and the farmer saw...

Meeting my loved one.

I met my Husband on the tram in Oldham... I then lived in N.I. with him and came back to England for...

Elaine Shuttleworth

Elaine lived in Leeds, and moved to another part of Leeds... Elaine commented no the Blackout that was...

Terror at Conway Road School

I remember going to school one day in the summer of 1940 when the enemy aeroplanes overhead started flying...

Edith Matilda Brown - Finding a little girl

My brother Charles Edward worked in military intelligence and he was eventually able to find her family....

My Sleepy Aunt

My mother told me about her younger sister when she came home from work in an ammunitions facatory, she was...

Safe and Sound

We used to take a hot jug of cocoa and bread & butter... One brother in the navy got bombed, he was...

Coventry Memories

I was eleven years old and in Coventry we had the trams blown up. Buses were sent from London , Manchester...

Seeing the sky

When I was four I can remember coming home, opening the front door and looking up the stairs, and being...

The German Spy in the Ammunition Factory

The German Spy in the Ammunition Factory...

Air Raid Shelters

The house we lived in, in Walton lane, opposite Anfield cemetery gates, as was common at the back at the...

Dornier Day

I was with my horses at the stables when hearing the sirens I ran to go to the shelter.I heard a Dornier...

An exciting lunch in Leadgate

One day I was working in the Co-op at Leadgate... There has been a bomb dropped on the Church yard at...

Messenger Boys

Messages could be passed between various locations such as fire watching stations, first aid stations,...

Plotting Planes

I worked in the County Architechts Department for the local council, at St. Mary's Gate in Derby. 1...