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War Memories of Derry

I was born in a quiet and rather sad town that was Derry before 1939. Fortunately, Derry escaped attack,...

Evacuation Memories

We came to live in Dagenham, my mum, dad, brother and myself in 1931, when I was three years old, on the...

My War-Time Memories (aged 2 to 7)

Had Mum and Dad been able to foresee the events that were to unfold upon our return, their decision to...

My Aunt's Letter about the Blitz in South London

A few background notes - my aunt Gray was an infant school teacher, and was married to my father's...

A real christmas

My dad said should he stay and help but the man looked at mums frozen face and at my little sister who...

Cardiff Under Attack by the Luftwaffe - Part 2

One of the tombstones hit the roof of Llandaff Church School, that was situated in the centre of the...

My War: Evacuated from Tottenham to St Ives

When Mum and Dad got home we set off for St Ives and left the debris as it was. During the weekend...

What I Did in the War.

This was because the German planes attacking London headed for the River Thames and had the extra land-mark...

Manchester Blitz

Bert and Doris Robinson had a comfortable marriage, in the neat terraced house in Fallowfield. And now,...

Ken McGuire-Wartime Memories

After a few weeks of severe bombing it was decided that we better go back to Fleetwood, what we didn't...

Margaret Bennett

I remember, but this is nothing to do with Chepstow, staying with an Aunt in Cardiff and going into the...

My War Experiences In London

One night a bomb fell in the High Road between Clapham South and Balham Underground stations making a huge...

Delphine of the Dings War - Filton Bombing and The Blitz

We squeezed in a double bed for Mum and Dad, a double bed for my Aunt and Uncle, two camp beds for...

Wartime Diary of a Customs Officer: Ch7 - Nov 1940

3 roads holed, one causing bus diversion, and temporary stoppage of gas supply: house in Cannon Hill, 50...

WW2 Reminiscences: The Blitz in Kent

On another occasion I was crossing the Great Lines on my way to work when I actually loooked down upon a...

Greenock Blitz

However the next hour got worse, I had mum's stretcher all laid out in readiness, the doors got burst,...

Hitler Doesn't Want to Kill Children

In the raid of the previous night bombs had struck the area around Chadwell Heath railway station which was...

Aunty Barb's Story: Coventry Blitz

I ran ahead of Mom and Dad to greet them on the front lawn at Manor Farm near Coventry... They...

My war memories 1939-45: Blitz in London and Birmingham

We wore them at night, and during a raid my sister and I were put under the piano in the drawing room...

My History of WW2

We worked under temporary cover for some time, but eventually they decided to move us to a former needle...

Childhood Memories of War. Life in Cosham, Portsmouth.

I was 18 months old at the outbreak of war and lived in Freshwater Road at Cosham on what was known as...

Banking on the Front Line: 1941

His pi猫ce de resistance that night was to convince a cynical Admiralty Signals Officer that it was a...

Blitz and V Weapons continued: A Child in London

None of them had -very strange then later in the day we were all made to go down to the cloakrooms which...

My Bomb Story: Living in Poplar, East London, during War

Local legend had it that the Luftwaffe would not bomb the church as they needed the church's spire as a...

Childhood Memories of WW2: In Islington, London

I said to my mum and pointing up at the flack," Who gets that stuff out of the sky, mummy?". Mum...

Wartime Memories-Family life

Quite often Mavis and I during the bombing, because Mum was working during the school holidays, used to...