Air Raids and Other Bombing

A Dash Home

On the night of the first air raid on Belfast my friend Deirdre Magee and I were walking along the Shore...

The Many Uses Of A Morrison Shelter!

The centre piece of our living room was the Morrison shelter. ALthough it was a large structure it was a...

Bouncing bomb at Bishops Hill, Ipswich

It was a bouncing bomb that fell at the top of Bishops Hill, bouncing over Holywells Park, striking houses...

Summer Holidays

During the summer holidays from school,freinds and myself would go over the farm were my dad work..and we...

Bombed Out

My Dad was caretaker at St John's Lane Infant School when the sirens ssoudead Dad used to take Mum nd...

Glass in the Soup

During the really fierce bombing of Hull I happened to win a raffle in the reporter's room of the Hull...

The Longest Air Raid

Myself and other children would look for shrapnel from exploded bombs and often found pieces that were...

My Memories: Air Raids in Atherstone

It had a bit of a bed for us kids to sit on and for curtains we had old sacks! Where we...

Bombing of Salford

At the beginning of the war I and my brothers were evacuated to knott end near fleetwood.we then moved to...

Cold and Afraid.

I was just a small child,walking home from Bourne junior school.I had just started there.It was around...

A Lucky Escape? An Air Raid in Goole

At the same moment that my neighbour realised that it wasn't a British plane, we saw the bomb doors...

My War -Beryl Moore

A V bomb fell on part of Bush House... I also did fire watch at Bush House and often went to Somerset...

Life in West Ham in 1940

We were all crying and scared but our Mum said, don't worry as Dad knows we are here... We had another...

Stationed with Husband

In 1939 Winnie's husband was the Ayrshire Yeomanry which were recognised as the Royal Artillery......

A Night at the Flicks

On this particular night ,the film was "Edison the Man" starring Spencer Tracey and I was seated at...

My War Time

After the bombing raids I went to see my aunt in Walton... We had a lodger who worked in the fire service...

A Tiny Detail but True

She was, she told me 'sure she was going to die'. She lay down in the hall with my brother, and...

Portslade Air Raids

I went straight back and waited for my Dad to come home, who worked there. I asked people "Seen my Dad?...

My Wartime Memories

We had a Morrison shelter indoors and slept in there for the duration of the war... I used to travel from...

My Wartime Story

I had the experience of seeing a German bomber on top of Manchester Railway Station, whilst on my way to...

Memories Of The Raid

I was about 10 years old, and my Dad was in the `Home Guard`, I was in a neighbours shelter as bombs...

Beat Off Dive-Bombers with Lewis Guns

Lance Bombardier Patrick William White, No. 6462311, Royal Artillery, 69th Searchlight Regiment, 458...

Air Raid - Guernsey 1940. Hiding under the stairs

Hiding under the stairs. It had been decided by my father that the safest place was underneath the stairs,...

My American Doctor

Iwas standing looking out of my glass cage I was in isolation in the Royal Victoria in Belfast yes I am...

Saint Cuthberts Mist

The Cathedral was founded by the monks of Lindisfarne when they brought the body of Saint Cuthbert south,...

German Plane Crashes at Ipswich Docks

They reckon he got past barrage balloons and everything, and he went right down to the docks and crashed on...