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Salford Ablaze

My lasting memory of the war is the ARP in October 1940 based at ARP post at Bexley Square, Salford Town...

Manchester raids

One of them when I started school, Greenwoods Colege, on 4th september, the day after war was declared......

Christmas Day Gt Yarmouth

Charles William Ingle fought in WW1 and got shot and a medal. In WW2 one Christmas day, he was taking...

London during the war

I was In Regents Park with friends when the German bombers appeared over London... The raid that after noon...

Another resident of Welling

On the 11th January 1941 my mother, my sister aged 8 and myself a boy of 5, were in our living room....

take cover

During the bombing of Coventry and indeed anywhere on the railway traincrews were instructed to take cover...

Victim of the Blitz

He had served in the First World War, spending some time on the Western Front, looking after the horses...

Hull in the war

I lived in Hull during the war and we had lots of German planes night after night. In the town, on one...

Hope Hospital Bombing

My lasting Memory of World War II is…the blitz when nurses lost their lives at Salford Royal...

A war story

Most of my earliest memories are of spending many long nights in a dark dank air raid shelter and the...

Firemen At The School

During the Portsmouth Blitz there were very severe fire raids with incendiary bombs that would destroy...

Sunday Afternoon

One Sunday afternoon my brother and I were playing camping in the bedroom upstairs.We suspended a blanket...

The Anderson shelter.

The air-raid siren had sounded and all the family made a dash for the Anderson shelter in the front room....

Unexploded Bombs

They were dug from the ground by the RE's and taken on a truck to near by Regets Park to be left...

Munitions Manchester

I started training soldering, and bullet testing, making sure that the bullets would engage into the belts...

The First Bomb to Fall in Swinton

My lasting Memory of World War II is…remembering the first bomb to fall in Swinton in front of the...

Our Cellar Air Raid Shelter

My lasting Memory of World War II is…hearing air raid sirens go off and all the family going into the...

My Family's Memories

My lasting Memory of World War II is…being taken into the air raid shelter wrapped in a blanket... My...

The Christmas Blitz

My lasting Memory of World War II is…being out of our houses with the Christmas Blitz... Christmas...

Pre-war

John Procter in the Fire Service.

My father, John Procter was a labourer at Reckitt and Coleman in Hull before the war... However, he dicided...

Day to Day Life

My lasting Memory of World War II is…a continuous round—work until 9pm then Home Guard twice a...

False Alarm!

We were all thrown out of bed as it hit the end of our street! My mother ended up with a large...

Peel Green raids

My lasting memory of the war is the Braodway Eccles on the night of the manchester blitz having to walk...

Kershaw's Factory

My lasting Memory of World War II is………………coming out Hodgkinson Shelter...

Dining table shelter

There were 3 children in my family and this lady had about 6 children. The memory I have is of about 9...