Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Clydebank Blitz

I have asked my granny Pat and grandad Bill to tell me in there eyes what happedned i have made some...

A Sharp End To A Night Air Raid.

The air raid sirens sounded late at night and my mum rushed us all out of the house and into the air...

Ambulance Rescue

We took over a garage in Smethick, ambulance station number 6. We were put into two teams and we had to...

Looking in shelters to see if we were all ok!

My brother wrote his memoirs and I never knew that the night the 4 houses were demolished he had passed by...

The Last Goodbye?

During the War my mother and father used to take the family photograph albums into the Anderson Air Raid...

Home in a Great Coat

My father, Thomas Leonard Beattie, was a Lieutenant Quarter Master in the VI Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment....

Memories Recalled

As we approached the highway they started shooting the workers as they were coming out of the factory.We...

The bomb that didn't go off by Ian Burton Y7

One night when my grandadwas on patrol with another policman in the Brady Square and Washington station...

When the People’s Pantry was Bombed

When the people's pantry in Duke Street was bombed I was about three or four. When I was older I found...

Escape from bombing

My Aunty Eileen was married to Jack Masters who was in the army during the war... The bedroom in which my...

'High Noon'

There were amny air-raids in this area where we lived - many people who lived there worked in these...

A Sense of Time (Wrenbury Remembers P.19)

To a boy born in 1922, the First World War was long, long ago and the time between that and the Second,...

Zeppelins over England

I had afternoon tea with my Aunty Joan at her home yesterdy-table cloth,best china and cherry cake.We got...

We buried the bakers van

The first air raid shelter we had was just a buried bakers van in the back garden; it was a horse-drawn...

Ireland in the wartime

I remember Belfast being completely blacked out all the time due to the scare of being seen by German...

POW CAMP

At that time my family lived at no 6 Donington Drive and the German POWs built for us an air raid shelter...

Childhood During the War

One of my abiding memories of that time was standing with my Dad on the from lawn watching wave after wave...

Bombs and Barrage Balloons.

Bombs and Barrage Balloons. On another night we were in the cinema in Chaddesden, Derby and a bomb dropped...

My memories of the declaration of War.

Uncle Jack and Uncle Betty came round one Sunday morning and Dad turned the radio on to listen to the Prime...

Kathleen's Story

The Cliftonville Hotel, Hove: Kathleen's Story. Two very kind gentlemen from the nearby Cliftonville...

The Sweet Shop

In 1942 there was a very old mill and a pond on the Priory road in Yardley wood. We realised we were...

Bombing oil tanks in Milford Haven

I was in Pembroke Dock when the oil tanks were bombed....

The Bomb &Football

After the Christmas Blitz of 1940,we came out of the air raid shelter,the cellar of a disused church at the...

Dethroned in Dover

I worked in the Dumpy Caves in Dover Castle where the plotting went on. We were in Dover Town hall....

The dogs lucky escape

In about 1942, when I was 5 or 6 years old and travelling home by bus to Falkland Road in Hornsey, with...

Knocked Unconscious In Newton, Dartford

My father was the senior air raid warden in the Newton area of Dartford, living in Carrington Road....