Air Raids and Other Bombing

Walking Home from Hoveton

My husband recalls the time when walking home from school at Hoveton with friends, when they were shot at...

Blitz Warped War Entertainment

During airaids 1939/45 in Shefieldwhen I was 2/4 years old my mother and many other parents would take...

Mistaken Identity of a Bang!

My mum's friend pushed her up the hall. My dad's friend had a car and they heard a large bang - he...

Strafed by ME109

Whilst in the allotment behind the houses in Dymchurch Road with my grandfather and friend Bernard,we heard...

A Sooty Baby

One other thing about the Anderson shelter; I remember sitting down there doing my school homework. A bomb...

The Day the Tower Caught Fire

We were eating lunch when we heard the Church bells ringing... At this point we realised that there was no...

Air Raids on Cardiff

Howver we were able to observe what was happening over Cardiff. This was the nearest that we came to any...

When I Was 5 Years Old.

Because Marconi was situated about 100 yards from where we lived. it was prime target for bombing... So...

The Moving Roof

I was evacuated to Wantage for a while, but came back and helped on the land. We had some Land Army girls...

The “Time Bomb”

Our family lived in Gainford Road, Liverpool at the time. Everyone was silent and suddenly one of my older...

Encountering the Enemy

I recall one night we heared a German had parachuted down a few streets away from where we lived, we set...

Mothers Story

My grandfather cut a trap door section from the floor and dug out part of the room foundation of the home...

Mother's Anguish

As a very young child I lived near Woolwich Arsenal and so was evacuated... One day at school an air-raid...

The Germans have invaded!

My Dad got up to see who it was and all we could see in the Blackout was someone in uniform and...

Edgar's Story

In mid-June 1940 I was crouching over a Chemistry paper during the School Certificate examination, the...

My Uncle Sid: Killed in an Air Raid on RAF Debden

My dad's brother, Sid collier, was an aircraftman 2nd class with 257 Squadron....

Bristol At War

I lived very near the county cricket ground and one night nine time bombs fell on the cricket pitch... We...

Black-Out Lit Up

Our living-room window was blacked out with sheets of brown paper... Flames shot up quickly and a piece of...

A Bomb Falls on Waddington

One night the air-raid warning sounded and there were sounds of bombs dropping on Waddington where there...

St George's Day

He was well known in the area as Charlie Tartar, and didn't like to use the air raid shelters saying...

Bombing the Rhubarb

Leeds was not bombed very often compared with other cities... Because of this, Leeds was covered by a thick...

Memories from Mansfield

I grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and we had an old cellar in the bottom of the house. I recall the...

Low-flying Messerschmitt

One day in 1941, I was coming back from school on Lockwood Road when a Messerschmitt came down and started...

A Early Morning Surprise

My father had been out all night on ARP duty and mother, my sister and I had slept in the basement because...

The war in Hull East Yorks

I was not born at the time but whilst my father Walter Ronald Bingham was fighting in the far east my...

Sleepless Nights

My brother Albert was in Belvedere hospital with scarlet fever and a land mine dropped behind it but...