On 15 January 1943 I was at Thorn Bridge Fire Station in Lincoln. A string of bombs dropped in Bank Street...
We were living in Bexley in Kent during the war and, although we suffered a lot of bombing, there is one...
One day I found an unexploded incendiary and, feeling like the king of bragging rights, slipped it into my...
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My brother Tom and his friend, the lad Ross were playing billiards at Canal Street one night when the siren...
In the event of an air raid, a warning would come from the colliery hooter....
The first bombs were dropped on Falmouth on July 7th 1940 and I remember the Germans were most...
We were told basically to dig a hole to put it in the garden, what they forgot was we were living below...
During the war I lived in London with my grandparents, mother, sister and Aunt Mary - my father was in the...
I was pushed into a doorway by an adult just as it dropped the bombs on North Street and Westgate Street. I...
My dad was William Frederick Walters some terrible terrible sights, but one of the happiest moments that he...
He and the rest of the men in his unit were required, when they say enemy planes flying overhead, to run...
The windows in the bungalows on Monks Road had long panes of glass in them, one opening window and curved...
The shelter was horrible - cold, dark, smelly and covered in condensation with lots of creepy crawlies from...
My most vivid memory is sitting in a park in Long Eaton watching the search lights cross the sky... They...
Mum and Dad had the Ship Inn outside Romford, Dad was absent during the war serving as an Air — Crew...
You only knew the bombs were going to drop when the siren went and then you'd come out of the shelter...
During the War when I was about eight years old, we lived down Newbridge Road in Hull.When the sirens went...
It was a bright windy, moonlit night,with German air craft in the vicinity,when a light was seen flashing...
On No. 1 photograph the girl on the bottom right of the picture is Barbara Mottram who also lived in St....
I lived in Market Weighton near Hull when I joined the WRENS in 1943. I was sent to Mill Hill in London...
My Gran had a First World War book and thought I would suffer as in WW1. Where I lived in Durham, Chesterly...
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