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Evacuation X Three: Chipppenham, Grantham and Gloucestershire

It was following the return from Chippenham that the events relating to the bombing described earlier...

World War II Memories

A few months later, my sister and I went to the Alcazar Cinema one evening and I remember the film very...

Liverpool Schoolboy: Terror of Raids, Blackout, Rationing, Horse-drawn Vehicles

Bombs also fell on the coal sidings at Knotty Ash....

Memories of the Battle of Britain

From early on in the hostilities we felt the impact of the war as the position of the village made us...

Goodbye Father, Hello Stranger

Also the butcher would sell or give away bones with quite a lot of meat on them... Lentil and meat bone...

Saturday, 7th Sept. 1940

But I was far more worried about the film than the air-raid. By this time air-raids were old hat: a film...

A Night Out - During the Blitz

On the evening of December 12, my mother, Antionetta, and her sister Rosina, were getting ready for an...

I Was a Teenage Soldier

We were preparing for the final big push, and our objective was to destroy all German troops east of the...

Family Experiences at War: In Stepney and the RAF

At that time my Mum and I and my younger brother were living at 73 Exmouth Street, Stepney London. We had...

The Night that Changed Our Lives.

Mum replied 'I've broken my ankle' so Dad took Jan and me over to the Nurses Home which was...

Wartime Memories

With scant ceremony I was bundled up and taken up to their current flat in Bristol: in Filton, near the...

Bombed Out! Caught in a Raid, Scarborough

At about 2.00am we reached No 4 Oxford Street, Grandma and Grandpa Nellis's home... When Grandpa Nellis...

"Why Does Hitler Want to Kill Me?": Part 1

My sister Win, who with her baby boy lived with us while her husband was in the army, had been blown over...

The Childrens Convalescent Home: Greenock Blitz

We had a very good cook in this home and the food, with what rations were available was good wholesome...

Almost Too Young to Remember

WW2: SOUTH LONDON ALMOST TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER Tony Shelton. No-one who saw action of any kind or who had...

A Schoolboy in Wartime Norwich

So, Mum, Dad and my brother of 18 months were huddled under the kitchen table whilst the bombs were falling...

My personal WW2 story: A Child in Sidcup

Little did they realize that Sidcup was part of what became known as ‘Bomb Alley’, - it was on...

A Plymouth Andersen Shelter Tale

The back garden showed signs of early enthusiasm: a small lawn partitioned off with trelliswork, a wire...

A Childs Perspective

1 lived in what was commonly known as London's " Bomb Alley" boundaries on all sides of the...

Aunt's WW2 memories

It was very easy to see them because the sky was so lit up with the glow from so many fires burning...

Taken by Surprise

Do'nt you know there's a war on' was the by now,familiar cry.Well,something had to be done and...

Bombs on London

Much of the City was destroyed although other parts of London were also bombed... At half-term of the...

Manchester Blitz by Joe Carley

I went to the door and looked out into deserted Slade Lane, lit up by momentary flashes, noticing here and...

Bristol Blitz

Just as we turned from Wine Street into Castle Street I asked Joyce my friend "Did you hear Lord...

The Air Raid Shelter - Family Tragedy in Edmonton, London

Skipping ahead of my twin brother, Peter, my brown hair was curled from being rolled in rags the previous...

BOMBING: Childhood Memories in London and Kent

We had just got going nicely when the orders came that any of us who had scholarships to secondary schools...