Air Raids and Other Bombing

Bombed out in Sheffield

When war was declared in 1939, I was living in a back to back house in Granville Street Sheffield with my 2...

Life of a Land Girl

During WW2 my mum – Janet Sproat Johnstone and my aunt were both in the Land Army. My uncle Bill...

One Frightened Child

The society was the Waif and Strays, but later changed its name to The Church of England Children's...

My Memories as a Young Boy

It would never look to come indoors, but when dad put on his home guard uniform for the first time, picked...

Jerry Bomber Blues

I'll go and get him Mam” shouted the boy as he ran back into the house to get Billy. Terrified...

Parachute Flares and Mortar Bombs

The bombs were fired high into the air above the slope of the Downs, as they reached the zenith of their...

Memories of My War

During the school holidays, Dad sometimes took me to work with him, usually repairing shattered roofs and...

Welcome to the World

The darkened room was in fact the living room of our house in Droylesden, Manchester. The house was not...

Evacuation

Fortunately we all had a chance to go or stay at home with our parents, my sister Edna and my younger...

Evacuation No.2 From 1 Danes Place, Bow, London

I do not remember the earlier years of the War but my parents have told me that in late 1939 my mother,...

Mrs. Barraclough - Wartime memories

I left school at 14, and in my first job I worked with a very nice lady who had a son in...

On Humber Bank

The area I lived in, Barton, was a comparatively small town but across the river was a larger town, Hove,...

The Nearest I've been to Death

But before we did I stopped to show May my new suit that I had just bought which was hanging on the...

Wartime in London and Evacuation

When the bombing began in earnest my mother, sister and I went to the local public shelter which was in the...

A War-Time Visit to Canterbury:

One Saturday in late October 1942, my friend Ginger Middleton and I then stationed at Lyminge in Kent with...

A Mother's Story

I tried to pack some things up, but a man came and told me not to because there was an unexploded bomb...

Bill's War

I was seven when the war started and many things stand out in my mind, such as standing in our back garden...

My Memories of the Sheffield Blitz

I had Mam and Dad, four sisters and three brothers, so there was quite a tribe of us... We were there 18...

Memories from Devon and London

When war began the family went to Raintree in Essex, but then they moved back to London, and then again to...

Memories

One Saturday night I was at a dance in the village of Adlington, the sirens went, we heard the plane come...

Air Raids in Falmouth

My family consisted of my father Jack, my mother Hilda, my brother Roy, and my sisters, Maud, Evelyn and...

Cookery Lessons

The boys came down, monitors grabbed first aid boxes or candles and matches, all lined up and went at the...

Salisbury 1940 to D-Day

We believed that the Germans used Salisbury Cathedral to fix their position, before heading to the real...

Before the Beginning

Mother came with me on the ferry from Burnham to Wallasea Bay with my bike and we met aunt Elsie there. The...

German ‘Tip and Run Raiders’ over Hove in 1943

The best book I know on this is "Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers over Britain - The Tip and Run Campaign,...

The Blitz

I started as a telephonist in the Report Centre under what was then the Devonport market, this was where...