The aircraft came over Rottingdean, and three bombs were dropped. One was dropped near the seafront,...
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During the Battle of Britain in North-West London there seemed to be constant raids, which even continued...
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After bombing in Heaton, the dance hall was being cleared.The bombs fell near the railway line, hitting...
I can remember looking up from the kitchen and seeing the sky and lloking around the kitchen there were...
My father was working with the Rescue Squad of the ARP, and he was involved in the Coventry bombing rescue...
Bombs started to drop all around us and my mum droppe dmy younger brother over a brick wall for protection....
It was a bus ride of 15/20 minutes, but on this particular day the buses had stopped running, rumour was...
I remember being in an air raid shelter in Grays, Broad Street, Birmingham. My mum was at the Co-op doing...
We lived for a while in Abbey Hulton and that was a rough place then... I remember that German plane that...
After one particularly heavy raid over London during the Blitz a 1,000 bomb landed nearby, deafening us and...
From our window you looked up the stairs to Birkmyre Park, the bowling green and the swing park. They...
During late 1940 when Coventry was being bombed I was delivering newspapers in Bramble Street off Gulson...
Ansell's Brewery was near our home and that is where we used to go during the raids....
It was very dark, bricks and rubble were falling around us and teachers were trying to get the children to...
The event is the first huge blitz on Clyde side in Dunbartonshire. I looked down on a sea of orange flame...
My mother sister Betty and I were all in Mum and Dad's bed on the night in question, we could hear the...
After midnight a land mine dropped in Churchill Avenue, behind us and all the glass in our house shattered,...
In consequence, one of the bombs fell on the house opposite my grandmother's home — so the front...
My sisters Mary and Peggy were evacuated to Leven and Doncaster leaving just me and my Mam. Mam and I went...
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