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After the All Clear

After the 'all clear' had sounded stragglers were frequently seen flying over the houses... On...

Air Raids by Daniel Tye

Air Raids were very common in the war above London... There were even bunkers in the London underground...

When my house was bombed.

When my house was bombed....

war

war...

Salisbury Hotel Landmine

My lasting Memory of World War II is………………after the blitz on Saturday...

The Song in the Crypt

We lived opposite a church and the priest opened the crypt for all the people around about to take shelter....

Cathedral Restoration Appeal

The Cathedral was restored after the War by Sir Hubert Worthington, the Cathedral Architect, who had fought...

The Manchester Blitz

My lasting Memory of World War II is…the Manchester Blitz spent in a neighbours cellar for 12 hours...

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*. Well my nan was telling me she was in the bliz and she...

Bungalow straddled by Bombs

The Bungalow was straddled by bombs....

his neighbours house was bombed

He was two or three and lived in London and there were bombs going off everywhere... The moment he was out...

Hiding in cousins pub

On a number of occasions, she hid in the cellar of her cousins pub in Salford... She was reluctant to go...

Christmas Blitz 1940

My lasting Memory of World War II is…the Christmas Blitz of 1940. The windows of our house were blown...

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*. Well my nan was telling me she was in the blitz and she...

Landmine

I lived in Liverpool during the May blitz of 1941 when a landmine dropped very close to our own house. We...

A Liverpool ballet school

I was a ballet dancer in Liverpool which was bombed an awful lot... When the all clear was given the dance...

The Shelter - (poem)

The Shelter -. We had no room for a shelter And tonight looked like a belter Down the street we would run...

Cathedral Air Raid Shelter

This image shows the Cathedral in the early 1950s, with the entrance to the air-raid shelter still in...

Wartime bomb damage in Little Britain, c1944

View from the upper floor of Queen Mary's Nurses' Home, looking North....

Truly Sheltered

When I came home for a weekend to see my family, as I had been evacuated, and when we were in our...

Hiding Behind a Wall

My lasting Memory of World War II is…hiding behind a wall on a Sunday morning waiting to be bombed....

TILBURY

1941- they were following the river and were dropping incendiary bombs and it was like a big bomb fire -...

Fireworks? No they're incendary bombs

I was 19 years old and my sister and I were staying at a friends - no sirens were heard but the...

Smoke by Helen Young

Across the road from our house was a big lorry that had a massive chimney —to me it was miles high,...

Landmine in Park Street

There was a landmine dropped down Park Street, I will never forget the noise, it was horrendous....

Manchester Cathedral Air Raid Shelter

This image shows the Cathedral in the early 1950s, with an air raid shelter outside. In the Cathedral's...