Air Raids and Other Bombing

A Night in the Cinema

Being young and not thinking that people at home would be worried about my whereabouts and because I was...

Mending Watches

The Poles were stationed at Swinderby near Lincoln, they all came into the shop to have their watches...

Going Home

All I can remember of the news programs on the Radio, was the R.A.F. dropping leaflets on Germany, which...

The War in Hooley

My memories are of my dad building the Anderson Shelter in the garden and the six bunk beds made of cheap...

Portsmouth Air raids and my memories

My husband Fred was stationed in Arbroth and he sent for me so that's where I had my daughter. Fred...

The Mystery Of The Heinkel

I looked out to see a Heinkel 111 circling low over Southampton Docks. Nobody took the slightest notice, it...

Life in the air - raid shelter.

The nearest to us was in the fields. I was living at Charlton Kings,Glos... I had the last Iced Wedding...

Patricia's Life in east Grinstead

My childhood memories:- I was about 9 years old, when, in East Grinstead, a Bomb was dropped on the Cinema,...

Bombing in Sutton Surrey

In 1940 my Dad was a stretcher party member and on one occasion after a bombing raid in Sutton Surrey, he...

Air Raid in Lewes

I was on a school trip to the Odeon Cinema in Lewes and we were allowed to go to a morning picture...

2nd World War, My Grandad By Leah McGreary

They missed their sister and would write to their mum Elaine every week asking how their mum and sister...

Anderson shelter

I remember a number of occasions when the air raid sirens sounded in the night being carried out in a...

Ipswich story

I lived in Ipswich during the war and I remember one time, when I was walking around the docks after work...

Air Raid Practise

They'd ring the alarms and we had to evacuate. there would be workmans lamps lit to mark where things...

Bombs and chocolate

The landmine in Cardiff demolished Hollymans bakery — it was a bakery right on the corner of the...

IN THE SHELTER

There was a Land-Mine going over on a parachute and my dad kept saying “ Keep on going”. Also...

Machine Gunned in Oaklands Lane, Biggin Hill

I saw a low flying Dornier 17 German Bomber on its bombing run to Biggin Hill aerodrome which was about...

Air Raids in London

I was working in munitions in London. My Mum's house was bombed and my Brother lost at sea....

Celebrating the end of the war in Paisley

Bunting was hung across the street from window to window... A bonfire was built in the middle of the...

Blitzed

There was a family of six next door, two parents, and four children, the eldest child was eight and the...

Childhood Recollections

My father was in the Home Guard and met the trains full of wounded soldiers at Middlesbrough station...

Dogfight over Kent

On the 15th September I saw a Spitfire shoot down a Dornier bomber which crashed in Barnehurst golf course...

A Croydon Air Raid

I lived in Bensham Lane, Croydon and when I came home a policeman was trying to stop me going up my road......

Mining Accident at Blidworth and Farnsfield Plane Crash

Two of my brothers, John William Hemsley and Edward Hemsley, were klled in a mining accident at Blidworth...

That tiny baby

During World War 2 my husband was a civil defence ambulance driver, and was based at Gulson Road First Aid...

Rosemary Stacey remembers the bomb dropping on Reading

Rosemary Stacey remembers the bomb dropping on Reading...