Air Raids and Other Bombing

It buried it's nose in the centre of the road

Another time I saw a dog-fight between a Spitfire and a German. I was standing on the sun-lounge and I was...

My childhood in Stockton-on-Tees

As I was crossing Hume Street an aircraft went over and the machine gun started ~ it was on its way to...

Air raid shelters

We had very heavy curtains on the windows and dark blinds. Once, I had to go to Bristol to hospital for my...

Dorothy Dyson's Story

Home Guard on behalf of Doroty Alice Dyson and has been added to the site with her permission… I had...

"The invasion has started!"

1 September 3rd 1939 — A definitive date in history, was a golden autumn day… 3 An incendiary...

Childhood Memories

A flying bomb fell on the other side of Middleton Road to us I landed on an ARP rest shelter — 4...

First Air Raid Siren in Leicester

When I left College and started in my first teaching post, I had to register for helping the war effort in...

My wartime experience

In 1942 I lived in Elburton Street, Plymouth with my husband Ivon and son Malcolm. My stepfather had only...

Hostile Boat?

With a boom across the river, to prevent enemy vessels entering, only military patrol boats were permitted...

First Air Raid

On Monday 16th October 1939 I was a schoolboy nearly 8 years old iiving in the village of North Queensferry...

Shooting in the dark.

He and a comrade were patrolling vulnerable places in the areas of Penshurst and Markbeech, checking for...

Beer For the Troops and Bombs Over Salisbury

At the house in Rampart Road, Salisbury, my father - George, who did not drink much, would keep a crate of...

Clydebank raid

A friend who lived two miles east of us, Andrew Anderson, of Treaton Shaw Farm, said they came over his...

Unmanned Aircraft

I was 16 and a junior laboratory assistant in the Pathology laboratories, Tennis Court Rd, Cambridge... The...

Spitfire Collision

We had Prison of War Camps at St Erth with Italians and Germans and they worked on the farms around....

Childhood memories of Glasgow during the war

We survived unscathed but bullet holes were left in the wall of Waddles sausage factory in North Woodside...

First of Nine Lives

All the crockery in the Sergeants Mess fell and was broken and all the blackouts fell from the windows. The...

Mrs Wilkinson's Story

I lived at the bottom of Coal Clough Lane when war broke out. I did my shopping on Coal Clough Lane at...

My Incendiary Bomb: my pet under the bed!

When the incendiary bombs dropped we all went rushing out to collect the fins and bits of shrapnel. That...

Mud in your eye

I was born in Leeds in 1937 but lived, with my aunt and uncle in Hessle until about 1941, when I was...

A WARDEN'S STORY

I was an Air Raid Warden on the 303 Post in Avon Street - my wife was a warden too, until she...

From Boyhood to Manhood [R.A. Oliver]

I helped build concrete pill boxes along the River Avon and surrounding area, dug out unexploded bombs with...

An Excuse to Miss School

On one occasion when the RAF son of a friend had to get to King's Cross my father was able to drive...

We All Had Jobs To Do during WW2

I guess my memories started about the war - maybe before, when there were 'rumours of war'. Our...

bombing and the coal-hole

It was a kitchen-house, a scullery, a yard and in the house, in the living-room, there was what was called...

Where is the Missing Bomb?

Later I was told that the Royal County Theatre had been bombed which was on Midland Road very near the...