Air Raids and Other Bombing

No Fish and Chips for Tea that Night!

There were loud bangs of bombs dropping which landed up by Blackpole Estate, where the munitions factory...

The Day in 1940 I Witnessed the Death of a German Pilot

One day coming back after the all clear we saw a dogfight in the sky above us and the German plane was...

Whalemeat Sausages

One thing I remember about the food was awful whalemeat sausages they tasted disgusting. We also ate soya...

'Shelters' and 'Firewatching'

We had an Anderson Shelter in our back garden, it was dug out of the earth, the roof was aluminium and the...

The Fortified Room

My grandmother on my mother's side, Elizabeth Byron, suffered very badly from arthritis and didn't...

Walking through Bristol after an Air Raid

From where I lived in Yate I can remember going up onto the railway bridge and watching the explosions of a...

Sheltering Under Hedges

Emma comes from a Gypsy Traveller family and has been living on the West Meadows Traveller site in Ipswich...

A Very Close Shave

Just at that moment a German fighter plane suddenly flew straight down the middle of the road with machine...

Childhood War Memories of London Colney [P.Lowry]

Childhood War Memories of London Colney. Near where we lived in London Colney there were a number of large...

Bombing of Dublin

I went to stay in a hotel just outside Phoenix Park In Dublin 1940 — 1941... We felt the ground...

One or Two Memories of the War

I had four sisters and my mam had us sitting in a line on the settee as my dad didn't think the...

Eugine's Reminisences

D-Day was exciting I went to a friends house in the Potteries, the radio was on saying that the troops had...

My Worst Night

My father would not agree to an Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden, so Mother, Father, Aunt and...

Wartime in Northampton

He would not let me stay in London because of the bombs – so he took me to Brighton... Then we came...

A Mine in Cemetery Road, Ipswich.

A Mine in Cemetery Road, Ipswich. Reproduced with Colin Rushbrook's permission by Ipswich Museum....

My Tricycle and I

Jill M and I went to the same high school on Streatham Hill... One day when I was off school because of...

Wragby at War

As a result of an aircraft off-loading for the return flight home, bombs were dropped on Wragby... My...

Bombing of Colchester Hospital - my lucky escape

It dropped the first bomb to fall on Colchester at two minutes to eleven and my appointment was at eleven...

Wartime in Port Talbot

Below is a memoir written by Mrs. Jean O'Connor typed by Christine Pearce of Neath Port Talbot...

Children Strafed by Enemy Plane in W.W.2

As children during the war, Sheila and I played on the recreation ground at the top of our road, one day we...

Born in an Air Raid

I lived in Chevalier Street in Ipswich, and my sister Olive lived in Bramford Road. I remember one night...

"Curse the Hun"

In October 1940 my mother was due to marry my father who had voluntered for service in the Air Force and so...

Derek Inness

In 1940 - 1943 I remember in an air raid we went to an Anderson Shelter. there was a string of bombs...

Grandad, Me and the Pigs

During the war years Grandad kept two pigs, one for home consumption and one to go to the government to...

Bombed Out Twice.

Still, we were again bombed out, and went to Blackburn. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum with Joan Kelsey's...

Bombs in North Wales

I was born and brought up in Wigmore, Herefordshire, but I had a 9-month-old child when the war started,...