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War Memories: Working as a Builder in London

I worked for a builder called Ackworth who had teams of young lads and older men engaged in bomb damage...

Daisy's War: Deptford during the Blitz

In Deptford High Street there was a bomb shelter under a big shop- Burton's, a clothing shop... By the...

WW2 — Through the Eyes of a Small Boy

Little did we realize the pounding that Portsmouth was about to undergo from the nightly raids from the...

"Jerry's up to sumut tonight"

At Grove Road, my wife Doreen, her mother, sister Margaret, and brother Brian, were not sure what to do,...

Bridge Of Fear

The Keyham area was very badly bombed, and once when the raids had been very bad, we were told in the...

Evacuated to Radcliffe

The Army had placed anti aircraft guns on the hills of course bombers came over Sheffield even on their way...

A Schoolboy's War: Near Glasgow

During the late 1930s, Auchinairn and Bishopbriggs were two small villages about one and a half miles from...

My Secret War

UNDAUNTED, Walter and myself roller-skated the three miles to the airport at Dyce, occupied by RAF Fighter...

Memories of the Peoples War.

Not far away from where I lived was Carpenters Road, which had lot of factories which had been bombed out...

A Teenager's Memory

The noise became almost unbearably loud until at last I saw from my bedroom window the flying bomb with...

Light Rescue

As Henry looked up, the joists slipped just a little without invoking another whistle from the Warden, but...

Collaborative Article: The Blitz

A Child's Eye View of the Birmingham Blitz: Part 3

A mile away, on the Birmingham Road out of Stratford, Dad was helping to establish Alvis's repair shop...

A Civilian in Wartime Air Raids: In Bolton

At my place of employment, higher up Derby Street, I mounted the stairs to the workroom but couldn't...

Child of the Blitz:London

It was our first sight of what we later found out to be a barrage balloon, which was going to be a...

Coronation Avenue, Stoke Newington: Surviving the Blitz

By the time I got to the far end, the water was almost up to my waist, and there was a small...

A Railway Girl in the Blitz: In London

The year was 1938, the time when I went to London to work for the British Railway, Liverpool St. Station...

From Schoolboy to Shunter - Part One Life on the Isle of Wight

By this time, the military built a camp site at the end of Gunville to house a searchlight battery, manned...

A TEENAGER`S WAR:In London

I was 12 years old when war was declared on 3rd September 1939 and living in a Victorian tenement estate in...

Mum's War: In London

During the War she and my father and my elder brother, born in 1938, lived in Bexleyheath, which is on the...

A real Tommy Atkins 1940 - 1946

Then out of the blue war broke out with Germany and I on the 28th March 1940 I enlisted in the Army...

The London Blitz: Somers Town

"A Child Remembers"

I was born 2 years before the war started and as a child I remember my Mother saying'I'm sorry son...

"A Boy in the Blitz"

I could hear my Mum calling to my Dad “I've got Derek - hurry up , George, and get down to the...

A Child’s Memories of World War 2: In Harrow

While on his rescue duties, he would sometimes find an unexploded shell, or incendiary bomb, which had to...

Redcliffe Raids and Scarlet Fever

During that night the raid went on till midnight and my mother's sister lived in Bedminster and she...