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Tip and Run Raid

While bombs were falling, sirens wailing, people running, screaming, in distant parts of the country, Pete,...

Wartime in Minster-in-Thanet

The first one fell in the orchard at the back of Bucks field, it's a council estate now, another one...

Rye Lane Peckham

I managed to get away a little earlier in the evenings, but it was usually after 10 pm when I arrived at...

The Night St Paul鈥檚 Escaped the Blitz

When I arrived, I knew that St Paul's was between me and the Royal Exchange, so I looked for the Dome,...

My Dad's Story of the start of the Blitz.

He went to find his elder sister and younger brother and found them walking towards Canning Town where...

Greenock Blitz: Rankin and Blackmore Foundry

We heard the guns start up, and then there was a glare outside the window - something burning down Baker...

How My Mother Saved My Father

As I was born at the end of the war I was fortunate enough not to have been involved in the bombing...

Experiencing Air-Raids as a 14-Year-Old!

After leaving carr vale school at 14yrs old iwent to work at the local vrickworks for afew months, then...

Wartime Childhood in Hampshire

My mother had been a nurse during World War I and took up her nursing again, while my father, who had been...

Childhood Memories: York during War

Clifton airfield H.Q. blown away and young men killed, their loss to mourn Their parents saddened by the...

London Blitz: Childhood Memories of Walthamstow

I also remember the doodlebugs and watched in my garden as one stopped overhead and glided into the local...

Survival and Hope in the May Blitz

Harold Pollard, my other brother, was in Dunkirk, a really handsome lad. Before Martins Bank, we were...

A Cuppa

It had become a routine, same time every night Sirens wailing We grab our things, clamber into the shelter...

Birthday Greetings from Adolf

At that time I was living in Estcourt Street with my parents and twin brother Gordon, my sister's Amy...

The First Night of the Belfast Blitz

We lived just off the Grosvenor Road near the centre of Belfast, and when we heard the sirens we left the...

Liverpool blitz (1940/1941)

Both sets of grandparents lived through the war - my father's Dad was in the army, my dad's Mam...

Memories of a Childhood in Wartime Harpurhey by "Harpurhey Child"

In September 1939 we were evacuated to Wardle. My Mother insisted on going with us, and as three children...

First Night of the blitz

He was sheltering in shop doorways and bus shelters.When he reached East Ham High Street he was informed by...

The Banjo: Childhood Memories in Staffordshire

There was this funny burned smell everywhere and in one of the houses, clearly visible, was a charred and...

My late father: Sheffield Blitz

Dad was employed by Firth Brown down the east end of Sheffield in Attercliffe, as an overhead crane driver...

Broken Biscuits

Biscuits, even broken biscuits, were a luxury in wartime... The owner was so grateful he gave us a bag of...

German Daylight Raid

We were coming home from school,the time about3.30 When the air raid sirens started.We were living in...

Wartime Childhood-South Shields

We lived near to the coast in South Shields, and bombs fell all around us: we were told that this was...

Harry Baxter's Memories of the Blitz

Most of the 14 to 17 year olds and older people were doing fire duty on the roofs putting out incendary...

RAF Protection Practice Against German V1 Rockets

It was during the period when the Germans were sending over V1 rockets targetted for London... At the same...

Child's Eye View

We had travelled a very arduous journey from Farnborough, Kent, via a stormy crossing of the Irish Channel...