Air Raids and Other Bombing

Air Raids on Falmouth

Such was the pace of life in Cornwall in those days that this retired teacher, who did not go out much,...

Our Interview with Betty Skinner

She was walking home from the cinema and when she got to the gate a soldier shouted out “ Friend or...

War time life in Merseyside

Bombing raids on Merseyside were quite regular through out the war. the first raid that I heard I was...

Kathleen Blenkinsop's experiences

The force of the bombs had opened the lid of the gramophone and the jam tarts must have managed to...

Malta Bombings

On the first day, Malta was bombed, but the first raid was in the Italian island of Sicily.When see grew...

20th August 1940-The bombing of Newton Abbot Station

My mother,sister and a few evacuees were at the bottom of Forde Road, near what is now known as Newton...

A Watime Milk Round

I think that the target was the Town Hall and the bombs landed on an ancient monastery just a short way...

Memories of Newcastle during the War

Ethal couldn't have a pention because her husband, which she married during the war, got sick and was...

Memories Of A Childhood in Wartime Warrington by Olive Scholes

At night-time, if the siren went in the early hours, our family went downstaris to the kitchen, where there...

Woolley Moor

In October 1939 I was about to start at my new school – Derby Grammar School but as the railway line...

Bombs Over Chadwell Heath and a Chance Encounter 30 Years Later

My father was on duty as an Air Raid Warden and came back home with a little family - Mum, Dad and...

Getting Shelter at the Works

I can remember when the soldiers were marching up Filton Hill, past the airfield, when there was German...

Evacuation

During the blitz of London in 1940, an incendiary bomb, dropped from a German airplane, struck our house...

Ashmore Street, Belfast

My mother, my 15 year old sister and I at 11 years old were living at 7 Ashmore Street. Coombe Barbours was...

Buried in our Anderson Shelter

She came to the house to make sure we were OK and found that the debris from the bombing had completely...

Permanently Wet!

After a few weeks we were back in the relative warmth of our newly repaired house being looked after my...

Not Another Bombing

Ihave been bombed twice first at the age of four in Mill Road, Bury St Edmunds in the First World War and...

Leeds Gets Bombed

Then we came down during a lull and wnet in the passageway between drawing office and the block and planes...

A Tale to Remember.

One night in 1940 she was half way through a tale about two little pigs hiding in a wood from a wolf...

Air raids and sweet rations: a war-time childhood in Glasgow

During the day we'd scour the streets for bits of shrapnel which were our wartime 'souvenirs'....

WW II death in the City of Wells.

This person was a Mr Harry Patis aged 63 and he lived in an old caravan, in what was considered a very...

Doreen's Evacuation

The rest of the family were seperated except for Mum, Dad, my brother, my sister, and myself... Dad stayed...

What a Coincidence!

During the period of the Phoney War my sister Doris and I decided to go to the cinema one evening. The...

Shelter in the Dark

It was dark and I was looking for somewhere to sit. We lived in Parton Street in Kensington and one day the...

German Bomber

Mine lived in Gosford Gardens, near Clayhall Park... As we left the house we heard the engine of a German...

The Day a Bomb Dropped on Our Neighbour

When I was about four, a bomb was dropped on the bungalow next door... The American soldiers billetted at...