Air Raids and Other Bombing

Memories of 1939-45 War

The Republic of Ireland was a neutral state and my memories of 1939-45 were of standing in queues with my...

The Dog that was Our Early Air Raid Warning

My father Frank Edwards was in the ARP and usually on the nights when there was an air raid on London and...

A Messerschmitt plane crash on the Dunstable Downs

A Messerschmitt plane crash-landed on the lower slopes of the Downs in 1941, and my dad and a friend...

"Grace's Tale"

Grace enlisted in the ATS and was given training with an ACK ACK team... She was posted to Wales with the...

They're still in the bottom of the pool

They weren't aiming for us either - we only had to go down there because he was getting rid of what he...

Shelters

In 1939 I lived in Great Baddow, during one bombing raid my neighbour and I with our children were in the...

Fired on in Hull

My father was a fireman in Hull during the war - Hull was badly blitzed and my mother and my sister and...

Bombed Out

I was bombed out in Benthen Road, Hackney, by a land mine which came down on a parachute... The Warden...

The Police man

During the war, we were looking for shrapnel we looked around this bombed building and we found an...

A Clydebank fire fighter

I remember just after the war started fire fighters were marching through Glasgow and people were shouting...

Hitler Hates Tomatoes

It was Christmas 1940 and we lived in Manchester near the Exide Battery factory... ON returning home he was...

The Day the Bomb hit

The bomb had hit a factory where they were working... He wasnt badly injured but a piece of machinery had...

Three Derby Memories

At the beginning of the war I was evacuated to Warwick from Derby, but when we got there no one was...

The Bomber

In 1940 when I was 4 and a half I was staying with my Grandmother in Bournemouth... I called to my...

If he wants me he can find me up here!

We would always have a flask and some sandwiches ready to go down to the shelter. I was pregnant with my...

Childhood Memories of World War Two

That night mum had gone to the Colston Hall in Bristol, which was bombed that very same night. She was told...

Bombs by Cora Arkle of Rothbury, Northumberland

A plane had dropped a bomb and all the roofs in Jubilee Terrace had been blown off and the windows...

The two bombs of bean street

We had two bombs down Bean Street, one on a terrace and the other in the middle of the road....

Barber shop bomb

The noise of the planes as they flew overhead and the sounds of bombs dropping around me were...

From Plymouth to Fife

I always think we were lucky to survive the heavy bombing that happened at that time in Plymouth....

Chased by bullets

My mum had to start working when we moved to Nottingham, she worked at Players Cigarette Factory, she...

Enough to Take the Roof Off

Dad had to go home to use the toilet — bomb dropped outside the backyard and flew the roof off the...

Tragic Coincidence

Leonard Staley was a relation to James and g=Frederick Smith who were brother's-in-law... Fred was in...

My Dad's in the Army - You Can't Come In!

I was 12 years old and Dad was in the Royal Artillery as an anti-aircraft gunner/spotter... I said...

"Wartime Humour !"

"Wartime Humour !" in 1941, Leonard and Frederick from Mapperley volunteered... They went to the...

Back to Work as Usual

I was working at the Goodman Factory on the corner of Milk Street and Deric End. On the Tuesday a bomb...