Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Heroes of Henry Street

Albert Fearn and Fred Mason were both local ARP wardens, while Thomas Lee was a civilian who lived at no....

A Childs War

My neighbours were the Perkins family Mrs perkins was pregant at the time.The shelter was very cosy with...

My Mom Was A Hero

Miss Amy Perry lived in Hopstone Road Birmingham and worked at MEM on Broad Street, Birmingham. My Mum was...

A Hole in the Roof.

My husband was an engineer and worked shifts so I didn't see a lot of him. he wasn't allowed to...

Night of Terror Easter Tuesday 1941

My mother, sister and I lived in the country so we went to spend Easter with an Uncle and Aunt. As we...

Severed leg to Galleywood

After the Marconi New Street factory had taken two direct hits on May 8th 1941 they were clearing up the...

Unexploded Bomb

Instead of going down the café stairs he took the short cut through the cinema and out into the pitch...

The bombing of Albert Street, Bedford

I was in bed asleep, when a series of explosive incendiary bombs had fallen on Albert Street. After the...

The Observer Corps. (Later the Royal Observer Corps)

The Group Commander for No 27 Group was Harry Gornall an electrical installation contractor with offices in...

Raymond Wright — Bombing in Maidstone

In 1944 I was living in Wheeler Street in Maidstone, and remember all the times we had to rush to the air...

Bob's gruesome discovery

When working in the drawing office at BSA I met up with another draughtsman called Bob Price. He gathered...

Alan Belsher's Story

On this particular night I was on my way home along with my friend George Cooper, past the Avro Aircraft...

The School has been Bombed

The air raid sirens would sometimes be heard at night and German planes could be heard overhead on their...

Bombing in Cardiff

I was living in Cardiff with my grandmother and remember one night when the Germans really started bombing...

Targets for bombings

This factory made tyres and during the war a German would have liked to bomb it to make our soldiers short...

Summer of 1940

I jumped in behind her then closed the door and by this time the aircraft were getting close and by the...

A bomb in my face on my 13th Birthday

At the age of 11 years I dug out and erected an Anderson air raid shelter all by myself and at the...

Convoys and Lend-Lease Eggs

I also remember The Ambulance Trains Round about Dunkirk time, early in the War, going by Aylestone on the...

How Gerald McNutt tried to dismantle an incendiary bomb lodged in his roof

My father used to try and get back home to Battersea in South London as often as possible but this was...

Air Raid Warnings in Canterbury

We were under the flight path of the Luftwaffe to London and the wailing of the air raid sirens became so...

A Childhood War in Cowes

His Grandfather lived in the house with them and one day Ken, his father and grandfather were standing at...

The night a bomb came through the roof and other memories

Bombing was only possible in the day time - at night there were smoke-screens which came out of things...

A Land Mine in Burnham-on-Crouch

Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex was the most unlikely place to be a target for a German bomber... Yet on...

Air Raids

When the air raid siren went, the barrage balloons used to go up to prevent enemy planes from flying too...

Dance Band Days

My grandmother,, was an accomplished pianist and by 1938 ‘Ransom's Dance Band’ was well...

Thanks!

Mr Banfield, who had died, came from the Penzance area and had been, I understand, coachman to the Enys...