Stories categorised in 'The Blitz'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
My elder brother was away and my younger sisters evacuated; at home, 24 Newman Street, were my father,...
The blackout blinds and curtains were all in place and I picked up some knitting and sat in a big chair in...
These aeroplanes had tracks from Loughor River, over Loughor, Kingsbridge and Waunarlwydd with Cocket to...
Mam didn't like the idea of walking on bare soil, so Dad had to make a floor of duck boarding....
My Aunt Esther was a black working-class Londoner, born before World War 1. After Joseph was killed during...
We then all bolt into the Anderson shelter in the back yard, just as the first bombs start exploding. My...
Apparently there were a number of people standing on the bridge or crossing it on foot when they saw an...
Phil's version of what happened then was that he saw a bomb coming down, and managed to extricate...
A month after our 20th birthday, the 22nd of December 1940 my twin sister and I reported for duty at the...
My father leaned through the door of the cubby hole under the stairs, grabbed my hand and said, 'Come...
My Dad was in hospital in the Manchester Royal Infirmary; my mother and younger sister had been evacuated...
My mum and her brother Jack, on leave from the Navy, set out to try and find where granddad has been...
Responding to a call from the local Civil Defence HQ, Alf's unit attended the devastation in...
I remember watching Coventry when it was blitzed... Then I saw a light over our roof, going in the...
We could even see a glow in the sky to the west of Glasgow, where we knew the shipbuilding industry was...
On the night of 19/20 May 1942 at about 12:30 AM, My Father, Mother and younger Brotherand myself were in...
She searched around and eventually came across a bread delivery van whose destination was Preston so she...
At that time, we lived in the industrial part of Liverpool, straddled between the main power station and...
On the night of September 17th, 1940 our house was struck by the largest bomb yet to be dropped on the...
His account of the London Blitz, especially the bombing of Docklands and the City of London, has been...
After the Germans started to bomb Coventry, my dad and his friend decided they would build a shelter at the...
Ronnie ket trying to tell Mum he couldn't get his Wellingtons on... We rushed down the stairs, we lived...
Born in 1910, Norah Taylor trained as a volunteer first aider and ambulance driver in Coventry and drove...
I lived in Northenden Manchester the aeroplanes that came over always made for Trafford Park and Hulme and...
The Bombing of Looe island. During the raid either a landmine or a bomb was dropped on Looe Island because...
One evening my father said that there were unexploded bombs in Summerfield Park. but made no other comment....
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