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The Bombing of Lincoln, 1941

The Bombing On the 8th May 1941 I was living at 31 Westwick Gardens in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in United...

A Boy's Memories: Sheltering from the Bombing, South of London

Dad did not have the door fully closed and I saw the metal framed window shake so violently that it seemed...

Childhood Memories of the bombing At Pennyburn, 1941

We lived at 20 Collon Terrace in the Pennyburn district of Derry. Earlier that evening some children called...

Donald Delves' War, Part 1 : The Bombing of Redruth - 20th March 1941

I think the German plane could not find it's target, but decided to drop it's bombs, so whilst...

Our bomb

We sat in deck chairs in the shelter and we could hear the planes and hear bombs exploding and...

Ondre's Memories of WW2

One night my cousin Tony and my Auntie Joyce were staying and we were sitting in front of the fire when a...

The Home Front

He brought lots of food, usually tins that he had salvaged from burnt out warehouses. The work was very...

The Blitz in Nunhead

I was living with my parents at my grandmother's shop at No.23 Nunhead Lane, situated opposite Nunhead...

Clydebank Blitz

On the night of the Blitz Ruby's Dad was working in John Brown's shipyard as a crane driver, he was...

Docklands Bombing

Half way through the war, we moved to Wimbledon as the bank I worked for in the City had moved their...

Granddad's War.

The Naval authorities, aware of the catastrophe that occurred when an ammunition ship blew uo in the...

mums wedding

Until my marriage I lived in Fulham Park Gardens, London SW6.My fiance in Barnes... My new husband could...

A Night To Remember: Liverpool Blitz 1940

I have no idea how long we waited, but after the dust had settled, we could hear the voices of the Air...

Glasgow Blitz

The throng filed on board, the bus smelling of tobacco and the windows papered over, we set off, rattling...

Miscellany Collection of Childhood Wartime Memories: In Nuneaton

In Edward Street and Henry Street there had been a bomb dropped and the local co-op had been reduced to...

The Bristol Blitz: The Day That Changed My Life

I lived at 22 Hengrove Avenue, Knowle, Bristol with my Father Fredrick FRANCIS aged 39 years my Mother...

When Dad's Van Took Off

Very soon we were to hear the distinctive intermittent engine sound of German aircraft overhead as they...

Black Thursday

However on the 15th August, the Luftwaffe flew over 1700 sorties in widespread attacks afar afield as...

The Beginning of Many Things: Bombed Out in Birmingham

Also my brother in law heard the bomb coming and took cover in the doorway of the shelter... Once we had an...

A Birthday Treat

At the next lull, we decided that we would try to get to Goodge Street tube station where we may catch a...

Boyhood at War: A Tracer Bullet through the Bedroom Window

The closest the war ever actually came was when a tracer bullet crashed through the bedroom window during...

Bombs in Meadvale

I'm an Air Raid Warden". "A bomb has gone off in your back garden". It appears that a...

The Manchester Blitz, Christmas 1940

My mother took my little sister and one of my brothers across the road to a friend's house and the ARP...

Bombings

During this time the Royal Artillery had had anti-aircraft guns on the golf links at Stourbridge and one...

The Ninety Day Raid: London Blitz

He was barely more than a teenager and kept calling "mutti, mutti". Some local women took him in...

Wartime experiences. April 8th, 1941

Later that evening my brother came home with the news that he had assisted to direct a fire engine around...