Air Raids and Other Bombing

A view over Tilbury Docks

We had just moved into a new house built outside the village on Chadwell Place Farm overlooking the marshes...

Ventnor at War

I worked in the large Co-op store in Ventnor, very close to Ventnor police station, Burts Brewery and...

The King's Biscuits

Alfie would turn up, usually a bit later, clutching a four-pound tin of biscuits. I, along with my fellow...

War Boy - Orford

In one week in November 1939 eighteen ships were sunk off Orford and at the Harwich approaches including a...

Wartime Sandown

The Pier area was never bombed — apparently it was too good a landmark to aid a potential German...

Childhood Memories of the 2nd WW in Birmingham

Because we did not have anywhere to go, we went to live with my grandfather Charlie Elliman and his son...

The First of Many Nights to Come

The next night we went down to George Street West as soon as the sirens sounded, we had heard that St....

Killed at Eighteen

On Sunday September 29 1940, I saw a German Downier 17 bomber overhead when I was in the garden by the...

A FEW REMINISCENCES OF WORLD WAR 2

The first air raid that I remember was when a bomb was dropped in the road outside 36 and 38 Coleshill...

A FEW REMINISCENCES OF WORLD WAR 2

The first air raid that I remember was when a bomb was dropped in the road outside 36 and 38 Coleshill...

Reflections of a Small Boy

Although Belle couldn't actually manage to fit under the stairs, she was extremely overweight, she...

A policeman's lot.

In due course the case appeared before the magistrate in Wallsend, this involving my father in taking time...

A Caulkheads War Part 2

Early in 1942 as part of the government policy of dispersing centers of manufacture the sheet metal...

Recollections

My Grandparents lived in Small Heath, very near Birmingham City centre, where the bombing was very intense,...

War-Torn Wife

As the quite little town of Romsey is within 10 miles of the port of Southampton which was bombed...

My War and Life

Memories of Norwich Airport During the Second World War

This was St Faith's Airfield which is now Norwich Airport....

Trannack Tales

Early in the war a German Heinkel plane crashed at Gwavas, near Sithney. Also a German airship flew over my...

Annie and Eva's War

When war broke out Eva was 21, Annie was 19 and sister Edna was 23. The Germans had dropped two landmines...

Edna Hastings'Wartime

We were all in bed when mother called us downstairs, there was a huge bomber flying overhead and they...

Air raids in South Shields

In January 1940 my eldest brother James was born, followed by my other brother Francis in May 1941. My...

When Americans took over the Village.

And we could hear the old Jerry aeroplanes because they always went err-err, err-err, and we could hear...

Family Life

Sheila: I remember everything about rationing; sugar, butter, tea, it was even difficult to get potatoes...

Bircham girl

During the Second World War I was living in a small village called Great Bircham in Norfolk. In the village...

Memories of WW2 as a Child

Just prior to D-Day the area was teeming with Americans, and I saw a landing pontoon laid from Par Beach...

SPIES IN WHITLEY BAY?

On one occasion in August 1940, my father, George Henry Heaviside, who worked in Newcastle, heard that...