Stories categorised in 'The Blitz'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Telling us later, Dad swore that poor Bill rose vertically in the air, whinnying in pure terror. The owner...
Between us and these two factories, there was an army anti aircraft battery, which was in constant use at...
My Mum and Dad and myself, and all of our neighbours were looking upwards and shouting and cheering for our...
I am ashamed today to recall that I laughed on learning that a large bomb, on which we encouraged to stick...
My photographs of the bombing of a certain West Sussex town, however, made the deadline in a remarkable...
When the bombing was severe in London, my mother's sister, Ivy, who lived there, brought my cousins...
When the bombing began on London in the August of 1940, we were organised by Captain into groups to scrub...
My primary school in Bootle, near Liverpool, evacuated their children to Southport on 1 September 1939......
I was born in 1930, and throughout World War II, I lived in a rented terrace house at 162 Blair Athol Road,...
Further memories of WW2 One evening after cinemas had opened again my husband and I went to the Regent to...
A so-called Doodlebug landed on my home, destroying everything that I owned and uprooting the Anderson...
My parents stayed with Mr and Mrs Hardcastle in Allesley on the outskirts of Coventry. Every night German...
My grandfather, Frederick "Blood" Reed, "Blood" being a nickname he picked up while in the...
Being a chip-shop, my father had outbuildings where he stored tubs of potatoes, in water, ready for...
I went out to tell my friend Elaine that Grandad was dead - few people had telephones in their homes then -...
Amongst the unsung heroes, there will always remain in my memory a comrade by the name of Edward Bennett of...
After a while, we were removed to a large ‘bombproofed’ building in the centre of London when...
The house next to the school was occupied by General de Gaulle, his aide and a secretary - Irene Jennings....
Off to Uncle Bills in Altrincham, on the bus, Auntie Maggie and me, it was a cold bright day, so it should...
I'll never forget this, there was a bomb blast, the window come in and the statue toppled off the table...
The Victoria Tunnel was built to carry coals from the Spital Tongues Colliery at Newcastle upon Tyne, to...
My father had to drive over a girder blown into our rear garage access alley.The drive through the raid is...
Another friend, Jackie McCall, normally came home from work at about the time the bombs dropped. On the...
I spent the war living in Oxford, where my Father was the Chief Inspector on the torpedoes being made at...
Dad and Roy saw 4 bombs go over and explode, machine guns firing... When Dad went out before, he said that...
Arthur was living in Bristol when the War started in 1939 and at 17 years of age was too young to join...
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