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Demise of a Searchlight and Gun Crew

Now this night in question it seemed to be the target for the 鈥楯erry鈥� bombers as a stick of 6...

My Nana and Grandad's Story of the War

My Nana and Grandad didn't help to build an Anderson shelter but my Nana thought that being inside it...

War Time in the Life of a Teenager

My sister and I found office jobs but unfortunately my sister was taken ill and had to go into hospital......

One Family's Life During the Birmingham Blitz

In the early years of the war, I was a pupil of St. Thomas's school which was being used as a clearance...

The Arrival of the Blitz

But we did it and were able to grow potatoes, carrots, beans, peas, cabbage and so on 鈥� as well as...

The bombing of Croydon Aerodrome

At this point my friend and I had reached the corner and turned into the street, so that we were at the...

Aircrews for Tea

I also remember they used to come round and ask us if we'd have airmen round for tea from the Meir...

'Merseysiders in the Blitz', Liverpool Echo (early 1950's)

While making nightcaps for those who couldn't sleep, I tried to think of some way to make it like...

The Raid on Cardiff in 1941

He died a year ago in November 2002 just a few weeks short of his 100th birthday. he was too young to...

The Clock On Brownlow Hill, Part 1

Adults and children running fast,To find a shelter before the blast.You saw the sky a bloody red,The blood...

Just a Boy in the War: Blitz on Sheffield

My other reaction was that the Germans must have been pretty rotten at aiming their bombs because they had...

An Unforgettable Night in Devonport: Memories of a London Fireman 1941

It was 鈥楽end a crew with iron rations to the London railway station... Our crew of four, Ted Crust,...

London, October 3rd, 1940

"I wrote the poem 鈥淟ondon October 3rd 1940鈥� published in a book of poems in 1941 and later...

World War Two Hits Moss Side, Manchester

Hitler was trying to bomb Trafford Park but his planes couldn't hit a bull's arse with a bango. So...

A Close Shave

The air raids followed a set pattern, the first waves of enemy bombers dropped loads of incendiary bombs....

Air Raids in Ladywood, Birmngham

An even worse decision was made by the neighbours of my Grandparents who lived a few hundred yards away in...

Manchester Blitz, December 1941

That day I had travelled from Barry Island, near Cardiff, on a wartime train. My fiance, Jack, was 1st...

Growing Up In A World At War - Conny Dean

The story was typed and entered on to the site by a CSV volunteer with kind permission of Conny Dean....

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 2 : Joan, My Sister鈥檚 Story - London 1940

Hal was in the Army stationed in London and Joan worked at John Lewis. Hal was the secretary of the...

Betty Meets Winston: Memories of a WAAF

It was then that we discovered the seat with statues of Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt....

Growing Up in SE7 during War

There were factories all around, like Johnson and Phillips cable makers, Siemens and, not far away,...

Port Glasgow and the 1941 Blitz

ARP was very important at that time so I became a warden and was serving at the time of the Greenock blitz...

The London Blitz: Boy Evacuated to Welsh Farm

I remember looking up into a blue sky that afternoon and thinking that the bombers appeared as silver fish...

Wartime Memories-Faye Margaret Morris

The story was typed and entered on to the site by a CSV volunteer with kind permission of Faye Margaret...

Tilbury Docks

I lived at the Station Restraunt in Tilbury Docks, the building was so tall that is why it ended up on the...

Blasts from the Blitz: Bristol 1941

My address at the time was Dorset Villas, Westbury on Trym, Bristol. I decided to remain in Bristol with my...