Air Raids and Other Bombing

Evacuation From Romsey To Swanage

Evacuation From Romsey To Swanage...

Air Raids and Barrage Balloons in Derby

I decided to volunteer as an air raid warden, my aunt Florence James who lived on Brook Street, West End...

BOMBING IN MANCHESTER

We were again sleeping underneath a building, in the shelter that was known as the Transport Offices on the...

A Boy Remembers The Home Front

One day in March 1941, after circling high over the town, a German bomber dived down and attacked the...

A Night in a Community Air-Raid Shelter When Leeds was Bombed

Leeds was lucky escaping air raids during the war. The floor was thick with soot and what furniture we had...

Freddy Harding's Navy Reminiscences

This was probably why freddy's brother was called up before him and went into the navy on...

My Grandmother and the War

Search lights were constantly monitoring the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and my grandmother remembers a midget...

Delayed Action Bomb at Parnalls in Yate

These gun turrets were used in the large four-engined bombers - Lancasters, Whitneys and the Wellingtons,...

A Child's Memories

On Easter Sunday 1941 we went to visit my aunts in Waringstown as we always did at Easter. On Monday the...

Gilbert Dowle's Story

My most vivid recollection during this time was when the big German bomb fell in Ditch Wood, which is...

Memories of a Dried-Egg Lover!

Lutterworth I remember that there were many troops going through the town. There was also the cinema in...

Daylight Raid On Bristol Aeroplane Company

It was a normal morning at Filton Avenue Junior School, Filton, Bristol. My mother was at our gate and when...

A Thames Experience

This particular day we decided on a fishing trip to Penton Hook lock on the Thames at Laleham...

'Don't Blame Me'. Childhood Memories of an Air Raid

As a nine year old village boy I played out in the street, with the loan of my school mate Raymond...

Air-raid in the Isle of Wight

My mother fell backwards and split her head open down the back; my grandmother sustained a compound...

The Night Derry Was Bombed

The German Aircraft returned safely to it base in Northern France and we children were perfectly happy the...

A Wartime Shock

When Mother decided she would like a cup of tea Dad would creep up the garden and into the kitchen and feel...

Miracles Do Happen

It happened quite frequently, as North Lincolnshire was littered with RAF Airfields, and also the enemy...

What's That Toilet Doing Up There?

All I recall was this toilet in the air, half of the house had been bombed & demolished... My father...

Childhood Memories of the East End Blitz

The bomb or doodle bug had fallen at the end of the road the junction of Cleaver or Clever Road and...

The Chesters of Greyfriars Walk

My brother Peter who was eight years older than myself was going to school at Queens Park and was on the...

My Experiences as a Child in WW2

We would go out into the garden with dark skies overhead riven with searhlight beams and already the sound...

Portrait of a Wartime Marriage

Ted & Betty came along to the Birmingham Back to Backs to tell their story to a National Trust...

Air Raids Over Salisbury

Then there was the bomb which fell in the allotments in the area where Hedley Davis Court is now... Then,...

The Themelthorpe Land Mine

One landed at Blue Tile Farm Kerdiston and the other, having broken its parachute coupling, fell in a lane...

Direct Hit at St Bartholomew's Church, Sydenham

One Sunday morning I had been Server at the 8 a.m. Communion Service at St Bartholomew's Parish Church...