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The Coventry Blitz

My name's Dorothy Bishop; my husband George and I were living at 24 Grasmere Avenue, Coventry during...

Ozzie Osgood's Wartime Memories

By the age of 14 (1942), I was working at Weymann's Motor Bodies at Addlestone, Surrey, later moving to...

My Wartime Experience in Silvertown

It was like a yoyo, every time a bomb exploded, the door was dragged open, pulling me with it. The bombing...

I've Survived!!

The previous month, August 1939, they were sandbagging the Town Hall and excavating for shelters in the...

An Exciting and Unique Time — a London Girl During the War by Irene Fletcher

And Regents Park housed a lot of airmen who also held dances, mainly on Primrose Hill. If a German plane...

A Small Girl's Wartime Memories in London.

I was born in 1938, and when the war started, my father joined the Special Police-force, up in Liverpool.My...

The Bombing of Cardiff

These buckets of sand were the only means they had of extinguishing incendiary bombs which landed on top of...

East London Firewoman 1938-1945

I joined the Auxiliary Fire Service, part-time, in 1938 aged 20, at Station 22, Burdett Road, Bow,in East...

Child memories of the war: South of Manchester

I lived in the suburbs south of Manchester with Mum, Dad and my younger sister Peggy. Dad was a land...

Memories of Wartime: A Child in Sunderland

My grandmother was a marvellous person, who had no intention of letting the Germans intimidate her, she...

The Sheffield blitz

After we had pulled ourselves together we crawled through the tunnel into next door's cellar, and...

A Time to Remember

The Black Prince was the fourth in Naval History of that name, a modified dido class cruiser of 6010 tons...

"MY FIRST DAY AS A WARTIME NURSE"

I entered nurse training at The Royal Infirmary, Manchester in November 1940... The Station air-raid...

My War Childhood in Bexleyheath: A View of London on Fire

We were at a wedding once in Erith when one stopped right over the church, well it seemed so, the vicar...

It Took Me Three and a Half Hours to get Home

Oxford Circus Station was closed due to the raids so we walked down through Trafalgar Square to Charing...

24 November 1940 - the First Great Blitz on Bristol

My father was in the A.R.P. at Avonmouth, about twelve miles away. Mother refused to go down into the...

The Anderson Shelter: London Blitz

By now we could hear the bells as the fire engines came nearer, together with the shriller bells of...

My Mother's Memories of the Liverpool Bombings

Her entries as a teenager during the war years seem to show how normal life went on around the horror of...

War Time Recollections: A Child in Norwich

The Blitz on Mile End

His brothers served in the Army and RAF and had various intersting stories, but this story concerns the...

From Sea to Air

I then joined the RAF as aircrew and did my ITW at Aberswyth, Grading School at Coventry flying Tiger...

My Family and the Blitz

So George made a protected area in the house in the front room by pulling the piano into the middle of the...

Small Boy's View of World War Two: In Bristol

The crowning incident was an incendiary going into the garage and through the seat of an Austin 7 singeing...

Our House

Around midnight we suddenly heard shrill whistles and voices telling us to quickly vacate the house as an...

Wartime Memories of East London and Essex

I was born in East Ham in April 1940 at the home of my grandmother, and although my parents at that time...

The Night the Bombs Fell on Dundee

That night, my young sister, who was 10½ years old, myself (12), and my two cousins, Nancy and Bobby...