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My War

The railway sidings ran along the side of the village, it was the direct, main line out of York, so we were...

The May Blitz - 1941

I stayed there for three days as I had no clothes and mum was too busy going round the hospitals trying to...

Memories of the 'Blitz' in Plymouth

I had been in the mixed Grammar School in Plymouth from 1930 to 1937, but left home to go to London to...

Coventry Raid 14 November 1940

When the air raid siren went off, we children were excited 鈥� it was lovely to watch the big silver...

Saved by fate - Joyce Ramm

That evening whilst I was on the bus going home, the bombing started over London. If I had not left London...

Leyton Blitz (J.Earthy)

Residing in Leyton, East London, I was evacuated as a boy of ten at the end of 1939. Once mother took me...

WW2 through My Mothers Eyes

At one point my Auntie went to work in an ammunition factory nearby whilst my Mum looked after the children...

Maurice Taggart - An Infant in Greenock

My name is Maurice Taggart and I was born on the 4th of July1939, at Rankin Memorial Hospital in Greenock....

War Memories of a Civilian

Unfortunately the German secret service must have realised that the Canadians were stationed there, so one...

Memories of Belfast during the War Years

During the war years I lived in Thirlmere Gardens between the Antrim and Cavehill roads in Belfast. Apart...

My Involvements with the Luftwaffe 1939-1943

After a short time Aberdeen also fell victinm to Luftwaffe attacks aircraft based at Stavanger could reach...

Second World War Memories: Walthamstow

I travelled to work next morning as usual and had to pick my way over a mass of hosepipes on the walk...

Was it a V1 or a V2? Palmer's Green and Southgate

We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. Soon afterwards I...

The London Blitz and War Work My Memories as a Young Mother by Alice Norton

I was living in Rotherhithe, South East London, between the docks and the railways, both of which being...

The War Years in Nottingham: Nightly Air Raids and the ARP

Like most houses our house had a cellar which Dad re-enforced with timber to provide a shelter from any...

Port Glasgow and the Blitz

We left there and tried to get a bus to Greenock to this dance which was at the West End of the...

War Time Evacuations

I believe Mum and Dad sent money to these Aunts for us to stay there but I'm not completely sure about...

Sarah (Sadie) Murray

My Dad was in the Army so Mam received a proper wage and family allowance for the kids, she was better off...

Sarah (Sadie) Murray

My Dad was in the Army so Mam received a proper wage and family allowance for the kids, she was better off...

The War Years

Thank God we've got a Navy鈥� as we watched the dog fights overhead between RAF and German planes....

They Bombed our House.

My sister Edna aged 4 and myself stayed with our Mam in our house in Bow Street, Liverpool. Our Mam, who...

Air raid shelters at Grange Park School

Fairy Aviation were making planes in a large factory in North Hyde Road, the AEC at Southall which was hit...

The Day a Bomb Demolished the House across the Road.

My father and my oldest brother had both gone down the town and my mother, who had joined the Civil Defence...

Blitz memories: Northern England

Mum told me later that, when they had changed trains at Kings Cross and Waterloo, coming back from their...

My War in Sheffield

After midnight things quietened down a little in Pitsmoor but bombs could be heard going off until 2am.By...

Letter from the King

We lived in a downstairs flat and my father's aunt Elsie and Uncle Jimmy lived above.When the bombs...