Air Raids and Other Bombing

St Peters, Newcastle - bombing

My gran was trapped under the stairs when St Peters, Newcastle was bombed. My husband was a POW and helped...

"Counting in the Bombers"

Every night when I was visiting my grandmother — I remember her counting out the bombers every...

My life

I didnt know what i was going to do i knew i would be scarred for life.There were children and adults...

Life in war in Woodhouse

At this time whilst I lived in Mansfield Woodhouse as a boy I noticed there were huge ammunition dumps in...

Riding through the park in a raid

Several Fluffier flew over head and as they did the AA guns fired and thousands of bits of shrapnel fell on...

War Memories

My abiding memory is passing the gas works on Dewsbury Road,when the sirens sounded terrifyingly loud,so...

Freddie

On this occasion ‘Freddie’ was out and about when the raid came... Once the fighter had gone,...

Dam busting practice

There were 2 big reservoirs above our village of Stockbridge just outside Sheffield. Soon after the raid...

A Lucky Day for Us

In Lascelles Road, Leytonstone London E11 a land mine which was a weapon that was dropped from an aircraft...

Memories handed down

Grandad did ARP work, and was out getting people into shelters when a bomb fell in Billingham Bottom and he...

German Fighter Aircraft fires on Caldecott before being shot-down outside Stamford.

German Fighter Aircraft fires on Caldecott before being shot-down outside Stamford. At the time, David...

Daylight bombing raid

During this period autumn 1942 German pilots were carrying out daylight raids on London and dumping their...

Married to the village policeman

I was a housewife in a village in East Anglia during the war... Because we were near the River Orwell, I...

Milk Jug on the Table

The vibrations of the bombing caused the milk jug to fall from the table... The milk jug had smashed on to...

Dummies

There was a bombing raid, we were in the shelter and in the morning after the "All Clear" siren, we...

Put That Light Out!

I can remember Chamberlain on the radio saying we were at war with Germany... We had an air raid shelter in...

A Frightening Memory.

The tanks coming through Matlock Bath used to terrify us - the size, the noise and the guns... The man who...

Childhool Memories

In the summer of 1943 I took my two baby brothers in their pram down a lane into a field where I...

"The warning" A.R.P. FILM

The picture shows Sheila Marie Caunt being carried out of the "bombed Building" by Mr Mee, an ARP...

RAF Billeting

He was 'Mr Rafter' to us children - his mother was Lady Rafter... He was killed on one of his...

The lads saved us

I was once walking along the river at Bramber with a friend when all of a sudden we were thrown to the...

Fire and Water

Within minutes we were flooded with water!.. It turned out that after the bomb had hit, an open truck...

Tracer Bullets Flying in the All Clear

Just as I got outside I could see a spitfire chasing a German aircraft, and there were also burning red hot...

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

Half way along the lane was a pill box and a searchlight in the adjoining field... I didn't notice that...

Butterfly Peril

The War was over before my birth but I remember strange, derelict areas my mother called 'bomb...

Air raids at the Maternity Hospital

My daughter Maureen was born in 1942. I had kidney troubles when I had Maureen and so I was taken to the...