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Stories categorised in 'Air Raids and Other Bombing'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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Notice From the Red Crossicon for Story with photo

My Mum wouldn't believe he was dead so we got in touch with Red Cross and St. John s and they sent...

German Wreckage

As children we stood there waving at it until we realised it was a German plane. We then saw it crash near...

Happenings in Darlington by Mrs J Baynes

One incendiary fell on 23 Marwood Crescent, home of the Williamsons, setting fire to his trousers. The...

Left out in the Bombs.

She used to get my Brother and Sister ready for the shelter, then go back in for me, only to go back...

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Nell Taylor's Memory

I would be about 17 or 18 years old when a bomb hit the backs of our houses in Holden Street, off...

good old days

good old days...

Terracotta pot mistaken for bomb

Realised after that no bomb had fallen, just a little terracotta pot....

Bomb sites for playgrounds

There was no play grounds where I was growing up, so we used to play in the streets and on the bomb...

A night at Corn Exchange

We were dancing at about 9 o'clock when two London girls came in wearing fur coats... First one of the...

Cigarette Rationing

I would come home from work and my mother wuold want cigarettes, very often she wouldn't have any. I...

Mothers memories

My mother was taking me for a war time walk to Woolaton park. We lived in Aspley then near what's now...

Night-time air-raids in Newcastle

I remember when the air-raid siren went off and we went to the shelter that was built in the garden. The...

Convoy through Lochwinnoch

I remember as a teenager watching a convoy of army trucks driving along the Main Street of Lochwinnoch....

Bath Heavily Raided

When Bath was bombed 3 bombs dropped in a field and blew out our doors and windows. There were 2 families...

Planes Over Jamacia

We used to dash inside and hide under the bed....

Lucky Not to be Bombed

The houses at the back of us were bombed but we were lucky not to be....

No Siren Warning

One night the sirens didn't go off or anything but suddenly the guns started up and shrapnel was coming...

Bombing in Nottingham

There were bombs at Camel Lairds... Down Bulwell there were also bombs dropped....

Blackouts

You didn't dare put a light on and if you did the air raid wardens would have rapped on your door and...

German Parachutists in Combermere Park!

The Home Guard in the village was mobilised when there was a report of German Parachutists landing in...

Bomb disposal

Returning from school after the previous nights incendiary bomb raid, my friend 9Kevin and I found an...

A Colander for Defence

My grandmother, Gertrude Savage, used to shelter in the cellar during the bombing raids with a colander on...

German pilot crashes near Primative Chapel

It missed Primative Chapel and crashed in "gelly", there was nothing left of the plane....

Bombs on the Moors

The German bombers mistook our little village in Cumbria for Barrow-in-Furness to the north of us. As...

Old Father Thames

I lived in a children's home when the air raid was on, all the children that were upstairs had to do...

Bomb Dropped

At Donnisthorpe a bomb was dropped....

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