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The Night of the Coventry Raid as felt by My Family in Birmingham

My mother and father Alfred and Edith Rubini were living at 31, Hampton rd, Erdington, Birmingham. during...

Secrets of the Family Exposed to the World

The tumbled bedclothes on the brass and iron bedstead, the chamber pot under the bed, the unwashed shaving...

Blitz, Liverpool 7th/8th May 1941

The nurses were: Sister Morris, nurses Webb, Morgan and Roberts. The men who rescued me: Rifleman Henry...

Back in London: During the Blitz

When the bomb dropped on the school opposite, the soot came down the chimney and smothered the room in...

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Lucky 3 Times!

We lived in London in Tufnell Park adjacent to the Kings Cross and Tufnell Park marshalling yards an ideal...

Growing Up in North London & Hackney

We had to go and stay in my Grandmother's flat in Clapton Common for about 18 months, during which time...

The Battle of Britain from the Ground

We had to find a new 'hidey hole'. I recall one memorable character at Detling, George Wooton a...

THE BLITZ

I was married in London in 1940, when the city was being bombed daily by German aircraft... One day as the...

鈥淟IVERPOOL IS GETTING IT TONIGHT鈥

Apparently during the previous night's raid and whilst the bombs were actually dropping, they had...

Coventry Memories

Ken worked at Bagington on Whitley Bombers... Ken was an ARP warden who worked on shifts depending on...

A Yorkshire Child's View of Air Raids

The men were standing against the walls, the women were holding the babies and us children sat on the...

After the Wedding

The intention was for my Mother, Father and I to stay for a week but on the night of the wedding we...

Fire Watching on the Last Night of the Blitz

Saturday 10th May 1941, is a date never forgotten because I was Fire Watching on the roof of the Mapping...

World War 2

The devastation was captured in a photo of a bus blown onto a house by the bomb,a landmark picture on...

Clydeside Blitz

This, and the raid that followed is sometimes referred to as the Clydebank Blitz because the shibuilding...

War Time 21.6.44: V1 in Carshalton

Mum and Dad went back to the bomb site and told them we we safe as we had been re-united in Poulters...

The Blitz from Ebury Bridge Road

When the German bombing of London started, my parents made a decision that we would not go to the public...

Longing for the Air Raid Siren to Go Off! Schooldays in South Harrow

Then my wickedness in hoping for an Air Raid Siren revisited me.... the Doodle Bugs started and Saturday...

The Blitz Through The Eyes of A Child

It smashed its way through the parlour window and landed on the bed where we would have been sleeping. All...

Supposing a bomb fell on the house....

Something like a 'moonlight flit' took place, however, and we moved to Ipswich just before those...

Wartime memories

I chose to stay in Ipswich, and went to live with friends... While living with my friends, a lot of time...

A Teenager in Londonicon for Story with photo

There was an English man who had a program on German radio giving out propaganda, his name was Lord Hawhaw...

Jewish Man stationed at Marylebone Station (M.Stern)

Jewish Man stationed at Marylebone Station. So eventually they stuck me into a place in Marylebone Station...

Living in Small Spacesicon for Story with photo

When the bombing was bad my Dad parked a caravan on a farm, near a reservoir, and we cycled there in...

Exeter Blitz 1942: Tale of the Sleepy Bus Conductress

My mother, Mary, worked for the first half of the war as a bus conductress in Exeter....

Joan's Story - Coventry Blitzicon for Story with photo

Mum, my brothers and me were evacuated from Coventry to Leamington on 5 September 1939. Mum and dad used to...

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