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A Quiet Night

On September 7th 1940 ,the Blitz of London began.Every night at dusk the sirens would sound and very soon...

Memories of the Blitz in Birmingham

When war broke out I was 13 years old and living in Birmingham where we had really bad bombing —...

Emily's Story: The Bombs Rained Down, In Manchester

My father was out on duty as an air raid warden and my brother Jack had taken Hilda, the girl next door,...

Murphy's law: Glasgow Blitz

MURPHY'S LAW Although it may be said that that when the sirens sounded we made our way to the air raid...

War in North Lambeth

My father was in the army and I lived with my mother in Burdett Building , Westminster Bridge Road; next...

Witnessing the Start of the London Blitz by Clive Hoare

John Lewis was alight and we sat in C and As eating chips and watching John Lewis burn. We went to sleep,...

Selling Coal in the Blitz

I worked as a coal man, selling coal from a horse drawn cart... I had sold out of coal, and had returned...

Silk Stockings

It's silly but I remember I was wearing my first pair of silk stockings... My Granny had no injuries,...

Sidney's Story of the Sheffield Blitz

By the time my mum and dad got home the there where so many bombs dropping it was too dangerous to go...

Blitz Wedding

Father was Stationed at a Naval Air Station in Hampshire, mother was staying with Father's relatives in...

You Never Knew: The London Blitz

At 10.30 we arrived, but there was no church; it lay in rubble, nothing but rubble. The experience had...

Wartime Childhood in Clydebank

One night the sirens blew, and incendiary bombs were coming down in their thousands, the garden was ablaze....

Memories of Belfast

I remember the Blitz very well… the first night I was very excited, the skies would be filled with...

Living With Bombs

My brother Jim was a commando in the Navy... A bomb dropped and sent all the soot down the chimney, right...

Bristol in the Blitz

When we went back into our home we were faced with a mess of plaster from ceilings ,broken windows and...

Golden Days

My Auntie Lizzie and other members of the smith family lived at 56 Prince Edwin Lane, Liverpool 5, where...

The Day Sheila Went Away

She lived with her mother, Lily, whom she she loved dearly, and her father, Henry, who to her was the...

Bombing During the Blitz

I believe it was June 1944 that a bouncing bomb hit Alan Road and rebounded into Myrtle Road killing 9...

Uncle Bert and the bomb

My Nan has told me this story of her brother, My Great Uncle Bert, since I was little. It had crashed...

The Day the Ceiling Came Down in Fulham

When the bomb went off, not only was the bedroom window blown in but the blast also brought down the...

Bristol War

I remember the day when my five sisters were evacuated; my Mum, Dad, and I took them to Stapleton Rd...

The Blitz - An eight-year-old's view

Every evening at about six o'clock my mother and I got a bus from Muswell Hill Broadway down to the...

Air raid shelter: London Blitz

My mother Hildegard Zimmermann was born in Waldkirch, near Freiburg, Germany in 1908... Her brother Rudolph...

Homeless: During the London Blitz

Rosalind Hensher The following is a real-life story, which happened during World War II. Rosalind, who was...

The Liverpool Blitz, May 1941: A Narrow Escape!

I was the youngest of 4 children and I lived in Bingley Road, Anfield, Liverpool, with my brothers, sisters...

Bombed out in Shoreditch

After the air raid we all went back into the house, had a cup of tea, I went to bed and my...