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The Air Raid Warden

One night after the air raid siren had gone he dutifully went about his business checking windows ,he saw a...

Noises of War.

Help the war effort, we need metal Railings and gates even that old kettle To make the planes, bombs and...

Off licence,Vulcan Road

My Granddad lived in an Off Licence on Vulcan Road, Leicester... In the backyard the shed roof was badly...

Ammo factory dangers

I worked in the local Ammo factory in the filling shop, my job was putting 808 purple explosives and TNT...

Albright and Wilson- Bomb making in Widnes

Albright and Wilsons was situated on the banks of the river Mersey and bombers got quite close to Liverpool...

Watching the Bombers Coming In

I lived in Belfast for most of my life but we moved to a cottage at Cloughy on the coast of County...

Aircraft Down! German on the Run.

Barrage balloons They kept the aircraft too high to find their aim and that was how he'd come down...

Chatsfield Road

My brother Ernie stayed in bed in the upstairs bedroom and refused to take shelter... My brother then got...

Joy Twemlow) Not so silent nights in the shelter

I remember during the war that our garden was dug up to grow vegetables. We lived in North Staffordshire,...

The Story of Three Children, 2 sisters and a brother

Soon we moved to Bristol which was also badly bombed, so the family moved to Plymouth... When Charles...

The Blitz

Before we got a table shelter we used to go in the cupboard under the stairs which was used as a larder,...

Shelter at Hodgkinsons Iron Foundry, West High Street

My lasting Memory of World War II is…in December 1940 aged 5, walking in the night to the sound of...

Air raids in Hull

My father was a fireman in Hull in the blitz and the family lived in a small terrace house provided by the...

On duty

John and I were on fire-watch duty one night, in an office near Albert Gate, when we heard the sound of an...

The Last Rocket But One

We were buried under the rubble until the Air-Wardens came round to dig us out. My Brother heard the bomb...

Dancing at the Trades and Labour Club.

On Saturday nights my friend and I went dancing at the Trades and Labour Club on Beverley Road, Hull. One...

10-15 year old in war

Father had refused a shelter, because we didn't have a garden for an Anderson shelter, and the table...

Two Homes During the Blitz

My father did shift work on the trams, there was a bombing and the trams had to stop because the flash off...

A Truly Spectacular Sight

I was off duty, and on the fourth floor of the nurses' home, which was on a hill, so it was easy...

The Story Of The Slippers

So I went to go into British Home Stores, picked up a pair of slippers, and was wandering around looking...

My War

I can remember planes going over on their way to bomb the steel works around Liverpool. There were unmade...

Ft. Leiut. John Anderson - Inspiration to join up

Having left Lurgan College, I was working for an engineering firm in Belfast which was based along the...

HAMMERSMITH TO ACTON TOWN

MY NAN USED TO TELL ME ,WHEN SHE WAS IN THE WAR WORKING ON THE TUBES, SHE USED TO SIGNAL TRAINS ALONG...

bombing of the cinema in east grinstead,west sussex

bombing of the cinema in east grinstead,west sussex...

Blackout over Stuarts and Lloyds, Corby

Stuart and Lloyds, Corby, Northants put up a ‘smokescreen’ which as intended to cover the...

Blitz in Salford

When the sirens sounded the air raid, we used to be rushed in our siren suits, to my Aunties home nearby,...