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East End Blitz

An exhibit I have seen here that interests me is an unexploded incendiary bomb. We were fairly lucky in...

Friends and Neighbours in the Belfast Blitz

When we came back to the house the warden came and told us to take any small valuables with us as there...

Childhood Memories of World War Two

In 1939 I was 4陆yrs old and living in Peckham Rye London SE15 with my mother and grandmother. I can...

The First London Air Raid

We couldn't hear any bombs where we were in the centre of London, which only made the fears for our...

Losing A Friend

She looked out to see Mrs Hoyle,with Trevor,at her front door... My mother assured Mrs Hoyle that us...

Attack on Mangravet

There was a knock on the kitchen wall my mother replied and opened the back door Elsie came through the...

A Little Girl's War: Gas Masks, ITMA, Manchester Blitz, Loss of Home and Father

A Little Girl's War: Gas Masks, ITMA, Manchester Blitz, Loss of Home and Father. My father was at the...

An 11 Year Old Londoner's Memories.

When we came out the garden was covered in burnt paper - Samuel Jones paper factory was round the corner...

The Night London Was Set on Fire

While waiting for the bus in Oxford Street I noticed a wonderful red glow in the windows of Selfridges and...

A Family's Experiences of an Air Raid on Bristol Aeroplane Company Works

It was the day of the big daylight raid on Bristol Aeroplane Company works at Filton about fifteen minutes...

Through a Teenager's Eyes

I married the day after War was declared to a Royal Horse Guard at Clewer Church Windsor I had wanted to...

My Worst Moments of the War

This news scared us all, so when I got back home in the evening I made arrangements to return to my...

A Day in the Life of...

My siren suit was always there ready and she soon slipped this on me, telling my elder brother to follow us...

A Mother's Pride

In 1939, myself, one brother and two sisters were evaquated, because of the war, from Bow, in London, to...

A Wartime Childhood in Coventry

By modern standards I had a dangerous childhood, finding and examining dead incendiary bombs and collecting...

When Adelaide Hall Went to War

Adelaide often entertained at anti-aircraft sites, including the one at Regents Park: "The first time I...

A Story of Two Young Children

On 8 Aug 1940 at thirteen he was evacuated to Canada with his Mother and sister and brother to stay with...

Childhood memories of wartime Salford and the Manchester Blitz by Gordon Graham

One night during the Manchester blitz my friend and his family were sheltering there when his sister and...

Toddler's Tale: The Manchester Blitz

On another occasion he went for a pint of beer with my grandfather to a local pub and as they walked home...

Aberdeen Memories

She lived with my grandparents, her brother and sister in a tenement style flat 3 or 4 stories up at 285...

A Kid in the Balham Blitz

We were evacuated twice, each time accompanied by my mother, the first occasion to one of the lodges at...

Wartime Memories in Norwich and Ely

In the raid of April 1942 we were lucky to escape uninjured owing to the fact that as we lived in a...

Chronicles of W.B.

I was working in Birmingham in 1940 and was staying in digs with a friend... So myself and George slept in...

The 1940 December Blitz of Salford

I left the depo in Sait James Street at 6pm in the evening to make my way to the ARP post which...

From one war to another

This was the premier run for picking up new bombs, because it was where the Luftwaffe jettisoned their load...

First Air Raid Siren

My sister's mother-in-law called it the "sirene" which we always laughed about later... He knew...