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Miscellaneous Memories

My mother, whose brother and sister-in-law evacuated themselves from Coventry to her house in Leamington,...

Evacuation from Birmingham to Derbyshire

We lived on the borders of Birmingham very near to Sutton Park they said the German Pilots would see where...

The Blitz

I remember Dell's factory Grafton Road, Kentish Town being bombed, ariel torpedoed. I saw my first dead...

Getting Used to Routines in West Ham: London Blitz

Georgie Green that is Sissie's brother comes in and keeps the girls company as Iris next door comes in...

Air Raids Over Jarrow

Dad used the railway sleepers to make bunks for us and we children slept in the Anderson shelter every...

Memories of an Enfield Schoolgirl

I was a young schoolgirl in Enfield, North London, during the war. When the blitz started we huddled under...

FIRE OVER MERSEYSIDE

The ack ack guns replied in deadly earnest, to put a stop to the bombers awful games, but the whistling...

A failed raid in Birmingham

A few hundred yards down the road was a large Traffic Island, with a battery of Search Lights and a battery...

Air Raids Over East Kent: John Side 4

When the Local Defence Volunteers had changed its name to the HOME GUARD and nicknamed “Dad's...

The Bombed House - A Near Miss

We realised later on that if our lodger, whom I later married, had been at home that night would have been...

Geoff Claxton's Memories 1938-45

The newspapers talk of Adolf Hitler and his No. 2 Hess, the man with green eyes. we go to Norwich city my...

I Remember the Day War was Declared

Dad used to go to work, come home, have a meal, say goodnight to us children, then go to do Air Raid...

May 1940 Blitz

I worked in Dominion Buildings, an old narrow group in South Castle Street which was a fringe commercial...

In Awe of a City in Flames

I quote my great uncle's report of that night's blitz: On November 24, 1940, one incendiary fell on...

An Eventful Wartime Wedding

The wedding cake had been destroyed along with the presents at the Co-Op... It wasn't iced, or...

Manchester Blitz: Evacuation and My Blind Doll

FRom my bedroom window I looked out to the famous Kinder Scout pass - a very different view from my bedroom...

Life on the Home Front: In Hull

We travelled towards Hull, feeling very apprehensive, but when we got to Hedon Road near to the Docks, the...

The Diary of a Nobody 1923 - Excerpts from this 'family book'

I was 15 in August, 1939, and was visiting my French correspondent in Bordeaux when, on the 3rd September,...

Memories of World War II in Welling

Daylight revealed much activity and our road thick in clods of mud, windows broken, roofs and doors damaged...

Memories of Wartime Greenock

Ration books 5-16 blue Food scarce — butter, sugar, ham, eggs, milk, fruit — all in short...

Last Ice-Cream in Portsmouth.

I remember the bombers going over, and Coventry being bombed. My father was in the army, stationed in...

A Child's Memories of the Manchester Blitz by Jack Oldham

We heard this whistling or screeching sound getting ever closer, and I recall my Uncle Percy, a World War...

Henry's Heroism: The 1940's Blitz

When the night time came he donned his uniform to patrol the streets of Bootle, and many times helped to...

Experiences during the War Years

At the age of 18 I commenced in the Council Offices,Holly Street Pontardawe,as the first Telephonist. It...

Manchester Blitz 1940: The Worst Night

My Dad was in hospital in the Manchester Royal Infirmary; my mother and younger sister had been evacuated...

My Hero: An Ambulance Driver during the Liverpool Blitz

He also helped to lite the bonfires on fields,which later became Skelmsdale,to try to fool the german...