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Fire watching duty in Derry

I worked in Robert's Garage in Foyle St. I worked in the stores... And it was supposed to be the...

The Bombing

As my father looked up into the sky he saw what he thought looked like 'lit electric bulbs' seconds...

Barton Hill, Mildred Street

At first we took refuge under the stairs - the strongest part of the house. Then my uncle, an ambulance...

Tangled in the Chicken Wire

I went into the small garden at the rear of the house and looked to the west along a row of houses...

Cut-Off

The men had come with their van and the strange huge metal bottles and spanners and torches and masks:...

BOMBING OF LAMBETH HOSPITAL JANUARY 1941

This incident occurred on the night of January 11 1941, it may have been about 7-8 pm when incendiary bombs...

About the V2 Bomb in Battersea

As we were going home the german bombers were flying over dropping stick bombs and one hit the cinema and...

Blitz over York

The Blitz

It was about teatime on a Thursday evening in Dec.1940 when the sirens went and we all made a mad dash for...

A Young Boy's Memories

When the air-raid started we used to go into the cellar, which had the windows blocked in with thick boards...

Blitz Breakfast

I was a schoolboy aged 10 and watched as the German bombers created havoc on the industrial heart of...

Total Jealousy!

One evening we went into the shelter, well armed with food, drink and bottles for the baby, including his...

idas war memories

I was married on the 5th of august 1939 i rembered neville chamberlain coming from germany and telling us...

View of Coventry from the top of a Shelter

It was a small garden with a patch of grass and a greenhouse where Dad grew tomatoes, under the windows at...

PREMONITION

During the bombing raids on Birmingham, my Mum Emm, would take to the Anderson Shelter in the garden,...

Marjorie and Betty's storie

It was early in the morning, a Lancaster bomber which had bombs on it, the plane was on fire and they were...

Childhood memories of Carole Bragg

She pleaded with my mother to go with them but because my father was stationed in Plymouth, working the...

The Blitz in Vauxhall.

I and other children would look for shrapnel from the exploded bombs from the night before. This is only a...

WW2 Memories

We had had a few drinks and when we got home dad got his key out and went to put it in...

Who's scared of what?

The air-raid siren went off, so Mum and Nan took their blankets and reluctantly went down to the shelter,...

My Story

Anti aircraft guns posted all around Tilbury Docks and a light 25lb gun fired from the top of the State...

A Big Bang-and that was it.

At 6pm on Thursday Novembeer 14 1940 the air-raid warning sounded and my mother gathered us, sister younger...

Bouncing Bomb

We stopped to comfort the horse and as I looked back towards Catford I saw an enemy bomber drop a bomb......

unexploded bomb along the Embankment

I used to go tot Trent Bridge School, I was about 12 years old at the time and at Trent Bridge school...

Blitz Breakfast

I was a schoolboy aged 10 and watched as the German bombers created havoc on the industrial heart of...

Family Memories in Manchester

My aunt Anne was bombed out three times in Pendlebury and Swinton, she had 5 children and she took it very...