Air Raids and Other Bombing

Welsh Rarebit

One evening she was cooking her tea, Welsh Rarebit, when the air raid siren sounded... And so she lived...

Bullets and a Tansad

I was four years old and my Mum was pushing me in a tansad down Hessle Road we had just been to...

The Unexpected

My Granddad, John Carr went to the cinema one night with a friend during the war times... John and his...

A terrible time

There was Thorndick St, it was bombed. My mother thought it was going to hit us, we were in Paxton Street....

Not In My Back Yard

I was in Belgium learning languages just before war was declared. Even after Poland was invaded they seemed...

Friends Killed in bombing

During the blitz I used to take my mother and father to the Conservative Club on Eccles Rd to stay with me...

A childhood memory from Swanage

I was playing in the garden with my brothers and sisters, when a German plane flew quite low above us. At...

Victoria Park

He got us ready to go to Victria Park in the St Johns lane area... A land mine had been dropped on...

A Vivid Memory

When I was a young boy ,I was gathring eggs at Cromlech farm in Tregele. A Bau fighter plane flew very low...

The 'mazes' playground.

Chavase Park used to be part of the warehouse area of Liverpool. It had underground passages that were...

Fallen bomb

Next day I went with my mother to see where the bomb had dropped... Everybody was looking for their...

A Rapid Descent

I remember I was sitting in the garden and a German Pilot flew overhead....

Canoodling and gas masks

One night I was out with my boyfriend and we went down to Westport Lake... Halfway back I suddenly realised...

Where did we play?

I remember hearing that a flying bomb landed in Maulden Woods... We also used to go the Ammunition dump...

Bombed Canary

It was 6 o'clock in the morning and the air raids had been going all night.Suddenly there was a...

Living with the Germans - Canadian air raid

We had an air raid, the Canadians came over and bombed the radar on the Fort field, which was on, and we...

Memories of Dunkirk

I remember Dunkirk — they had to rescue them. All little boats were along the coast they went across...

Straffed by German Planes

The road behind the ‘White Cliffs Hotel’ on Dover Sea Front close to Dover docks....

A German Souvenier.

When I was about 7, I remember going from South Normanton in Derbyshire, to stay at my aunties in Derby and...

'I'll stay with you'

Once, a doodle bug hit our house and my brother, who was a rear gunner in the Royal Lancasters was called...

Oy! Put Your Cigarette Out!

The funniest thing was I was walking about with a Tic Tac on the dog tracks the night of the first attack....

The Bomb in Moberly Road

But the day the bomb fell in Moberley Road I wasn`t in the shelter, I was on the loo, the outside loo...

Bed Bomb!

When I was 6 years of age me and my friends often played and scavenged for rubble along St Pauls road......

Memories of Jim Hugill

He wandered about Beverley pushing a baby's pram, but he didn't have a baby and we always thought...

Nights in the Anderson

I worked at London Laundry in Coventry during the war but spent every night in the Anderson shelter at the...

Enemy in the sky

My mother threw herself on top of me, as the bullets tore along the pavement,luckily we were not hit. I...