Air Raids and Other Bombing

GWR Air Attack

During the day a single German bomber overflew the town and circled around the railway station and track...

Towed Home

He and ten other airmen and soldiers were towed on an ammunition barge by a French destroyer which cast...

From Dagenham to the Unknown

I lived in Dagenham, and I remember my husband making a hammock in the air raid shelter for our daughter to...

Oil From The Sky

When we went into the garden droplets of oil the size of half crowns were falling out of the sky... I also...

Bryan Bell's War

We all had to go to the shelter the Victoria tunnel A boming raid happened around Byker Apolo Cinema was...

Blackout

Everywhere you went during war at night was in blackout. You couldn't put your lights on in the house...

Mum's Teddy Bear

The docks in Liverpool were a prime target, and the Wirral was apparently, regualry bombed, because of...

Glady's Story- As Told by the Children of Strand Primary school

Gladys had an uncle called James... He was very glad that day that he had his bible in his pocket.when he...

Bombed Theatre

This plane was dropping five things out of the plane, We thought it was sandbags but it was bombs... Later...

Memories of a Bomb in Kings Langley

Harry Ford, the local greengrocer, was doing his weekly rounds one day, along Railway Terrace in Kings...

Uniforms with a Difference

I worked at the Burtons Factory on the East Lancs Road in Manchester and I lived in Swinton. Enemy planes...

A War Time Memory of Phyllis R Rudd

My parents worked in Bristol at the Filton Aircraft Factory. We children were never allowed to sing that...

Childhood Memory

One day, there was a loud thud ourside, unpon investigating my mother found a large crater halfway down the...

A Near Miss

Luckily a man in a pub called the Bull Dog came and pulled us in - he saved our lives. One day...

Take Cover....?

My friends mother was rather a large lady - Mrs Murray... Another lady came down the street so Mrs Murray...

Memories of Childhood: Belfast "Nissan Huts", as told by Lynda Heron

My mother had ten children, and during the blackouts she had to gather all of her children up and run up to...

An Explosion at Ransomes, Ipswich.

He went to work at Ransomes, the famous engineering company in Ipswich, just by the docks. Ipswich suffered...

Keeping the Cashbox Safe

Elsie remembers sleeping in her clothes in preparation for sirens going off. A sad memory for Elsie is when...

Bomb Hits House in Finsbury Park

My sister lived at Finsbury Park quite near the station....

Memories of the ATS: Shrapnel in the Afternoon.

I was walking along and could hear a noise like "shhh, shhh". I thought "What the hell is...

London Visit

We had arranged to meet in London... On the way back to the station, an air-raid alert went off and we...

The Unsucsessful Bomb

Something shining caught my eye and I remembered the sound of bombs from my earlier years in Liverpool....

Flames Across the Thames

Surrounded by factories all round us: Tate and Lyle, Baer and Ingram, Keelers Silvertown was a very busy...

'Stop Me and Buy One'

As a child of five years old living in Gosport, Hants., I remember my mother wearing a whilte long coat and...

Bombed-Out in Nutfield

In 1941 the local Canadian Army unit, was changing the guard in our village of Nutfield, Surrey, with a...

My Friend Wore Her Hat Even in the Bath

JESSIE ROEBURY lived in Johnston Renfewshire where the blitz came very suddenly and unexpectedly. Once on...