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Sheffield Blitz

My Dad was working at English Steel factory on night shift... When it became obvious that the attack would...

Christmas Shopping

I would be about age 6/7 years old and we were on a train journey from Bolton to Manchester. We arrived in...

Togo Mill, Trafford Road

My lasting Memory of World War II is………………During an air raid warning at...

Cemetery Explosion

Charles, my Grandfather, was a tram driver during WW2. He remembered seeing a horrific site when a local...

Thornecroft, Woolston Yard.

Iworked at the Woolston yard and was in the Home Guard, called the Z batteries at Netley outside...

The Brick Air Raid Shelter

My lasting Memory of World War II is…spending many long hours in the brick air raid shelter opposite...

Freeing of horses

One night a bomb hit the depository and my mother, brother and I stood on the doorstep and watched as the...

Smell of the paraffin heater in the back garden shelter

My lasting Memory of World War II is…my father on night patrol as an air raid warden, bringing home...

War in Fallowfield

At first when the sirens sounded you jumped out of bed and dashed down to our raid shelter which were built...

Swift pint

Came 1943, I had reached the age where my voice had broken and was singing alto in the church choir... The...

I was real SCARED!!!!!!!!!!

I was petrified hearing the bombs drop all around us. I can remember my Mum read us all a story that night...

The Blitz

I was real SCARED!!!!!!!!!!

I was petrified hearing the bombs drop all around us. I can remember my Mum read us all a story that night...

Unsung Heroes of the GPO Phone Exchange

I was on the GPO switchboard in Coventry during the Blitz....

Bouncing baby & bouncing bombs

That's Barnes's bombs" exclaimed great aunt Molly... My mother claims this was the result of...

Bridge Street Bombing

When I was 11 years old I went up Bridge Street Pendbury on the Friday night to my Uncles and on the...

My Grandad's Time In Hospital

My lasting Memory of World War II is……passed on by my grandfather of Liverpool Road Irlam, who...

Bofors Gun

One morning the family dog would not get out of its kennel because a spent shell, from an anti-aircraft...

Blitz

They bombed the docked for six months. Now there are no docks where there used to be in London....

My memory of V.E. Day is

Dancing on the air raid shelters in Albert Square... It was impossible to get a drink, so we piled into the...

WW2 Birthday

I can vividly remember my 8th birthday party in 1943... My mother made a real effort and supplied all the...

My Dad's Long Walk

My Dad was stationed at Biggin Hill for part of the war. After hearing a rumour that Birmingham had been...

The Great Escape

On the night of the Blitz to the best of my knowledge, my mum and I were on our way to Percy...

Where Are You From Son?

We were put off at Brisbane, Australia because we were no longer required in the Phillipines. As I walked...

Clydebank Blitz

On the night of the Clydebank Blitz my grandfather had taken the dog out for a walk... When he eventually...

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