At the time of the Clydebank blitz I was staying in a suburb, fairly high up above Glasgow, and I remember...
Whats going on hear" came the voice of a police officer from the street and the ARP man told him. "...
During the Blitz I was cycling along the Cambridge Arterial Road, Bush Hill Park, London, to visit my best...
We donned our "Siren Suits" and got ourselves comfortable under the stairs. Mother went from time...
One night the sirens sounded and we heard the planes overhead.My Dad came along,picked up my brother and I...
As we were running German planes came over machine gunning the playground. Something told him to get up out...
A favourite past time, when in the parks, was using the bomb craters for ‘Wall of Death’...
On this day also the ARP warden who lived across from us ran up the road with a bomb in his hand...
She Lived in Grangetown, next to the cemetery... She went downstairs and out into her back garden where she...
My job was to sit there all day with a jug and scoop the clean top water in the housewive's pans /...
However, one night our routine was changed by the appearance of ARP Wardens blowing their whistles and...
She told me she has vivid memories of climbing over the masonry and seeing the burnt out tram cars and...
The searchlight beamed onto a German bomber. To make a speady getaway they dropped their load of bombs one...
Most nights when the sirens went we used to go to the shelter and listen to the bombs drop. One night the...
As a little girl i contracted bronchial pnuemonia and was taken into Hope Hospital in Salford,...
Even more important to me, we were very close to Salisbury Cathedral and I was convinced that Hitler would...
A lot of the shop windows in Ardwick were broken and their contents lying on the pavement... When I got as...
My dad and I were walking down Anlaby Road near Park Street... Dad said, ‘Let's go to the...
an incendiary night...
I was about 8 yars of age and living with my Mum, Peggy Brooks, my sisters, Pat and Margaret in our house...
The air raid siren went quite early on a Saturday evening and my family moved into the Anderson shelter in...
My mother had a piece of white marble stone in the garden so that it reflected any light there was, so we...
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