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The Blitz on Swansea Docks

I lived in Swansea during the war with my mum, dad and two sisters, my third sister wasn't born till...

Newburn and Vickers

I didn't as I was too busy watching its dog fight — the first German bomber was disabled and...

1939 and the Last War

In 1941 I met and married my husband who had come down from the Manchester area to join the Navy- nowhite...

Surviving the Blitz on Norwich

Mother lived in Rupert Street in Norwich, and my father was a market gardener with a piece of land where he...

Whistle In The Dark

The nightly air raids by German bombers returning from targeting nearby Liverpool forced my mother and I to...

The Blitz in New Southgate, London

Russell Lane corner of Haslemere Ave, Haslemere Ave, Dene Rd, Beresford Ave. My best friend had an...

Housing Issues During the War

The Atherton Centre was a mortuary, and George and his wife were dead there. You'd get a bomb somewhere...

Nurse Mary

I was working in an institute in a TB hospital called Grove Park, I was a nurse and throughly enjoyed it! I...

They also Bombed Wormwood Scrubs

I was born in 1935 in Shepherds Bush London. because of the heavy bombing a lot of people were killed and...

Memoir of World War 2

The ARP wardens arrived quickly to view the crater, and summoned the Home Guard, who were unsure if it was...

The Blitz

When the sirens sounded and things got noisy — aircraft overhead and a variety of gunfire noises,...

A Visit to London, 18 December 1940: Damage, Craters Everywhere

In New Oxford St. the destruction tremendous... Went into St. Mary Woolnoth and heard an address from...

Bombs Over London

I came to London shortly afterwards and survived the constant scourge of the Incendiary Bombs....

One Man's Childhood Reminiscence

My mother and the 3 children, you know I had an older brother and sister, were evacuated to a small town...

The Bomb That Didn't Go Off and Others

WWII (2) My Auntie Marie, 5ft 4ins, and my Cousin Ivy, 4ft 11ins, were fire watchers together in Breamar...

Canterbury Incendiary Bomb Incident

Many incendiary bombs fell in and around the hop gardens and to my brother's delight he found...

Wartime Schoolboy

Wooden bunks were provided for sleeping,and at the height of the German air raids, it was normal to go down...

luckyann's war story: London Blitz

I lived with my parents and my baby sister in Brockley, South London... However, my sister was so poorly...

The Blitz December 12, 1940

Mr. Richardson, who was my friend's dad, had a brick shelter in his yard. Mr. Richardson flew in the...

Bombings in Walker 1940 and Evacuation to Bolton Gate,Keswick

These bombers started to bomb the houses on Bath Street and Welbeck Road when the gunners spotted the...

Mother's Sadness: Bombing Kills Child in Carshalton

My mother, brother John and I lived with my grandparents in Carshalton Surrey... The air raid warden...

War Time Bride

My fiancé was serving in France with the BEF in 1939; he came home to be married on May 4th 1940... In...

The day the Bomb Hit the House Next Door.

It was on Good Friday 1941 when German bombers sneaked into Bristol without being picked up by the...

Wartime Memories: The Messenger Boy

Through the Sea Cadets I got a job as a Messenger Boy for the Naval Department at the Ministry of...

A Memorable Day: Catford School Bombing

Once to attend a memorial service in January of last year, where I happened to meet and make friends with...

Coventry Blitz

My father however was the Station Master of Berkswell on the London to Birmingham railway line, six miles...