Air Raids and Other Bombing

A Hull Boy who Survived and Stayed

My mum we used to take me to the Humber bank and Mum used to say “there's your Uncle Fred over...

Constance Perrin's Air Raid memories

During the War there was bombing close by. The Germans seem to have been aiming for the Picture House which...

A Stirrup Pump , a Bucket of Water and a Bucket of Sand

In the war I lived at vauxhall. my father was an air raid warden. When a raid happened many people went to...

Building the Anderson Shelter

Being the youngest in my family I was either put undre the stairs or wwe all went down to our Anderson...

I Saw My Neighbours Get Bombed.

It flew close to the ground and before i knew it, had dropped a bomb at the end of my street... I...

Raid on Lydd Airport

I was living in Cinque Ports Avenue in Hythe with my Mum, stepfather who was in the airforce and two...

Cow in the Night

We had to do guard duty when two of us stayed up and manned the radio transmitter during the night. We were...

Bombs under the table

Every night I used to help my mother draw the blackout curtains... Then one night we had just finished...

VJ Day in Norwich

We followed them around for Hours, all around our estate at Earlham, then onto the Larkman Lane Estate,...

Streets Ran with Sugar

The streets ran with sugar after the sugar factory was bombed....

Flames down Coventry Road

We used to get a trolleybus into the city and one day we saw a german aircraft shooting down a barrage...

The tiocking Bomb

Being a naval port it was being bombed all the time. When I was 15 in January 1941 a bomb, puported to...

The Boy on the Garden Wall

The little boy sat all alone on the garden wall in the middle of the night....

On leave in 1941-42

While I was on leave in 1941, my dad, George Wilson, took me to the Oberon public house in Queen's...

Father letting the Bomb blast in

I came halfway and was sitting on the edge of the staircase when a bomb dropped and the windows came in on...

Invasion

An incendiary bomb had dropped, so my 10 year old cousin and I went outside and put sandbags around... The...

The Grey Fire Engine

I lived in a bungalow on Monks Road, I kmew something had changed, air raid shelters were built, Florence...

Gas Masks and Blackouts

I had a Mickey Mouse Gas Mask — every Monday morning we had to call fire drill, which was going to...

'Mistaken Identity'. As told by Daughter Dorothy 'Cherry' Clark.

'Mistaken Identity'. As told by Daughter Dorothy 'Cherry' Clark. He was dragged by a couple...

Daytime bombing in Sheffield

Happiness That Being Wounded Meant He Came Home

I was living in Apsley Cotts, Chartham near Canterbury during the war with my older brother and sister and...

A Mystery

A young man I worked with in 1940 lived in the centre of town. Their street was a long row of terraced...

Air raid precautions at New Milton, Hampshire

Among the many wartime records at Hampshire Record Office in Winchester are examples of the preparations...

fockerwolf machine guns

fockerwolf machine guns...

Caretaker of Limestone Road

My father was a caretaker of a school off Limestone Road....

STRAIGHT THROUGH

Luckily my husband was in a reserved occupation - you know, he did't have the call-up - as a millwright...