Terrified, Daisy sat under the stairs clutching the baby; knowing that the bombers were targetting the...
When we lived in Barford Street, near the Bull Ring in Birmingham, the bombs fell and blasted the row of...
I understand that they were used to provide a cloud of oily smoke over the city to act as a shield to...
In December 1940 I spent a whole night in the Abbeydale picture house during the Sheffield big blitz on the...
My earliest memories as a child was the droning of low flying German aircraft on their way to bomb...
When the bombing started in September 1940, we moved to Bromley, Kent. We shared a house with an aunt and...
It was much later that I remembered that I stood talking to one of the Ward family just before the bomb...
The Clydebank Blitz...
I was coming up from the shelter on Christmas Eve - the world was red like the inside of a furnace -...
We would swap sandwiches, tell ghost stories and listen to the bombs going off. The night Clydebank got...
The next thing I knew there was a flash of light and a burning object shot past me - it was actually...
My lasting Memory of World War II is鈥unning from the shelter in Boxton Street, Eccles, aged 5,...
In 1940 at the age of 16 I was sent, along with two workhorses, to a Transport firm in Shoreditch. I was...
when a plane dropped five bombs on Portobello Marshalling Yard鈥he bombs missed the yard. The bombs...
My father, Charles John Ernest Bamford, was on fire watch duty in Shepherd's Bush in London, and I,...
The night the German's dropped bombs around Manchester and we had some dropped near us, as there were...
The photograph above was taken early in 1940 outside the old London Salvage Corps Station in Watling...
Several air raids took place prior to the one in November.I was in the middle of town and was in the very...
When the Germans raided London, the 大象传媒 would stop transmitting to prevent the bombers homing on the...
On a Sunday walk with my father RichardGould, we were passing the railway line at Maze Hill when a sneak...
Tunnels went from Alfreton Road, Beckingham Road to No2 factory on Boulevard. She could remember bakery at...
One day my great aunts were playing in the park with other children from the neighbourhood and they heard...
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