Air Raids and Other Bombing

The Black Stock Shelter Tragedy

Seven of my cousins were in an air raid shelter in Black Stock, off Scotland Road, Liverpool....

The Little Soldier

When I was 8 or 9 my mother made me an army uniform, the rifle was a replica of 303 LeeEnfield, made...

Sweet Shop in Aston

The planes came over and dropped a bomb on the market hall in the Bullring... We went into the cellar and...

Esso bombed at Purfleet

When I was about 12 and lived in Stonehouse lane Purfleet in a farm cottage at Low House Farm and I went...

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...

What was all the Fuss About

We were taken to Lapworth to live in a fruit loft above a garage to escape Birmingham. We came back to...

Horrendous Bombing in Hull

I was glad to be home but we went through all the bombing in Hull after I got back which was horrendous....

School machine-gunned

Albans Catholic High School in Ipswich on behalf of his Grandfather Rex Ogden; and has been added to the...

Time to Go

Patricia Seymour, and has been added to the site with the author's permission. We crept through the...

Fortunes and Fears

Often, when the siren went, I used to run over the railway bridge hugging the wall, as the bombers used to...

Little Memories of the War as a Child

I was a child....

A close encounter

Aged 15, Lily Russ worked at a former corset making factory making parachutes as part of the war effort......

Betty Thomas

President of Women's British Legion. I was in the British Legion in the 50's and I am a Poppy...

Mum's Flying fortress

This is one of my Mothers memories who unfortunately has passed on: It would have been during the summer of...

The night the windows shook

It was towards bedtime, I went up the stairs, got to the landing then all of a sudden there was a flash...

Travelling Home on a Blacked-Out Bus

We travelled from Belfast all the way to Lisburn like that, with the bus more or less creeping all the way....

A Foggy Saturday

It was a foggy Saturday morning and I had gone to my Aunties in Cranes Park Road, Sheldon... When auntie...

The toilet window

The toilet had a big window, and all you could see was the flames and the planes....

Summerfield Park

Not nearly enough,” replied the same man, “We have to take all the Iron railings that we can...

"I was so frightened I nearly wet my drawers"

I had been in the shelter and was cycling home one night with my cousin when we saw a Messerchmitt coming...

Like a Brother

Rober McGlashan was a student on our farm Nancarrow at Marazanvose. When war broke out he left to...

Nursing the Home Guard

After gaining certificates in First Aid and Home Nursing, I was asked to help at the A.R.P. post, which was...

taken

For me, the whole Remembrance Sunday/Poppy Day situation was more of a nuisance than anything else....

Two Homes Bombed and the Loss of a Father.

During the war I lived in a place called Bonnersfield, next to the shipyards and so my home was bombed......

A Kid in the Blitz

I was six years old and living down Limetree Avenue, Hessle when two landmines were dropped... One dropped...

You’d dive under your desk

When the sirens went, the air-raid was over, so as soon as an aircraft came in sight they would put the...