Air Raids and Other Bombing

My family at War

After the war she continued as a matron at Sheffield Royal Infirmary. My Auntie Nell remembers a tram being...

Bethnal Green Station Tragedy

My Husbands story; his dad Leonard was a night worker and was in bed when he heard a child shout...

GERMAN PLANE OVER ST IVES

I was on Hayle Towans with my sister in law, Noni Power. Noni was running with the pram and a spitfire...

Being Bombed in Stockport

It happened so fast and was so unexpected we had no time to go to the shelter, in fact this proved to...

Air raids and curtains

When the sirens went we would go out the back garden gate to the air raid shelter called the “Abbey...

Bombs above Bolton

I remember a German bomber ditching his bomb load to escape fighters. One bomb demolished the barn behind...

Childhood Memories

Mam used to rush us children down to the air raid shelters as Dad stayed in bed....

Bomb Under The Dome Cinema.

Bomb Under The Dome Cinema. I was working in the Dome Cinema, right on the sea front at Worthing....

Wartime Wedding in Derby

Then I went to America to pick the sweeper up. When it was in dock it took you anywhere you wanted so...

Grapevine cracks Oficial Secrets Act

My mother appeared at the top of the stairs and shouted down ‘yes, I know, your going to London to...

Mrs Rogers in the war

Mr Rogers worked on the railways — I was stationed at Westhouses and that is how I cam to live at...

Worker's Playtime

I was part of a dance troupe of school girls in the early ‘40’s. The other three girls in the...

Bill Mortimer's recollections

Three of the Germanss gave themselves up to Nobby Clark who ran the Waterworks pump at Claywood. An...

Sheltering in the museum gardens

Pat and her family lived in Bethnal Green near the Museum of Childhood on Cambridge Heath Road. The house...

Fire Service during the war

Firemen were put into fire crews and my dad travelled between Bristol and Plymouth for his firefighting...

The Unexploded Bomb

German planes started dropping bombs. In spite of the unexploded bomb, I still cycled to work other wise I...

My Story

However there were some good times, like dancing to Jo Loss and Betty Driver. I remember being stationed at...

Searchlights over Hull

I was only about four at the time in 1944 and living on Hotham Road but I remember the sheer excitement of...

German Bombing in Derby (1940)

In 1940, I was employed by Derby Co-operative Society as a shop assistant and was at the grocery shop on...

Living Through the Raids

In the Battle of Britain when they had all the dogfights we had a bomb in the garden while we were in...

HIT-AND-RUN-RAIDER 1943 EXETER

The nurses dragged us children away from the ward windows and made us lie down on the floor under our beds....

Air raid on firth of Forth

This was the anti-aircraft shells announcing the first German air raid on Britain when German bombs fell on...

Tea from the Toilet

After the big blitz we all wanted a cup of tea but found there was no water, so I decided that rather...

BOMBS ON BASINGSTOKE by Phyllis Ferguson

Church Square When the bombs fell in Church Street, my father was an Air-raid Warden and Church Square was...

REMEMBERING BERT BOURNE

My memories of WW2 in Penzance

We were walking along by the Penzance railway station and heard the drone of a plane... Next thing a...