Air Raids and Other Bombing

Midden Motor

My most vivid memory of VE night was walking with a crowd of teenagers from Springburn to George Square...

Air Raids in Bexleyheath

I would have been 12 years old in 1940 and lived in Long Lane, Bexleyheath... After this time, because the...

An Ex-Chindit's Memories

When I came home, I was on the train from Taunton and the train stopped at a station and loads of kids...

Flat feet

My sister and I were evacuated. My sister was flat-footed, so I had to bind her feet every night....

Playing the Wag

We played the wag and went to Tritiford Park. Low and behoold, who should come round the park but the...

School Days Age 11

One unfortunate man was so panic stricken that he appeared minus trousers and boots, having left his wife...

One of the Few

My sister Frances Davies and her husband used to go to the local air-raid shelter together but one day she...

Cell u Light

Gordon Thomas____________________ I was 5 years of age in 1940 when The Blitz took place in Birmingham......

German Planes in Derbyshire.

We lived at Muggington near Ashbourne where lots of the houses were made out of light coloured stone. we...

Pierless Defences at Minehead

The Minehead Pier was built in 1901... Campbell Steamers used to use the pier for trippers, so they...

The War time messenger boy for the AFS

No COE 402and the AFS was regularly called out to various places that had been bombed, including...

Hiding in the coal cupboard during air raids

But we didn't have time to go, so my husband pushed us all in the cupboard under the stairs where we...

Musty and Dank

Instead of my dad walking me down to the end of the garden, he pushed me under a bush until the bombing...

Sheffield Bombing

I was 11 when war broke out and I had passed the old scholarship to go to the old city grammar school...

Dogfight

I lived opposite the football ground in St Chads Road in Tilbury. Tilbury was bombed one night and the...

waving

My nan was a young teenagerager during the war, and this is just of the things that happended to my nan. It...

Portslade Gasworks bombed

I went straight back and waited for my Dad to come home, who worked there. I asked people "Seen my Dad?...

Mines

Cyril was my office manager at Ashfield District Council which is how I got to know him... Cyril stopped...

A Child's Memories

Standing on the back balcony of our home and seeing a sky ablaze... It was just the horror of seeing a red...

The Bombs and Air Raids

We had a couple of bombs dropped in the village....

Paper boy hiding from the Messerschmitt

One very overcast and grey morning I was delivering my papers along Northcourt Road when a Messerschmitt...

1941 ... when I was born

Hurridly, Mum and Dad carried my sister and I down stairs into the shelter. Mum's sister was just on...

Vivid Memories

I have a vivid memory of the bombing of the British Oxygen Factory, my father worked there... We had to...

Living in the Country

The pub in Hastingleigh, The Bowl Inn had a bomb come through the roof, luckily it did not explode and no...

Runaway bicycle

I was the proud owner of a bicycle which my father used for his Home Guard duties, rallying others of the...

Watching the Doodlebugs

THESE THOUGHTS WERE ADDED TO THE SITE BY JOHN YOUNG OF BBC SOUTH EAST, ON BEHALF OF RAYMOND FERMOR....