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Woolwich Arsenal

I got my bicycle and cycled off home to Woolwich market, turning off towards my home in Eltham... The guns...

Landmine

I was seven when I was travelling on the train to Windygates in Fife as I was evacuated to my Aunts... On...

My lucky escape: During the London Blitz

I am 85 years old in July and I was living in London all through the air raids & bugs bombs... We...

In Bed with Incendary Bombs: Childhood Memories in Cheshire

Before mother had time to take me down into the cellar two incendary bombs hit the house - one came through...

Life in the Air Raid Shelter: In Lewisham

We used the underground street air raid shelter in Mercia Grove Lewisham... We soon made the shelter...

A War Baby from Coventry

I appantly spent the first five or six years of my life dodging the bombs which devastated Coventry by...

March 1944: London Blitz

I was 16 yrs old when on Fire Watching duty with my father in Fulham an un- announced bombing raid attacked...

Stockport Air Raid Shelters

Stockport's tunnel air-raid shelters were constructed between 1938 and1939... Stockport Council...

Filton Memories

I worked at Filton airplane company in the wages department, I was there when it was bombed. My father was...

The Sweetshop in the Blitz

Night time air raids were spent sleeping under the stairs of our house in Golders Green with my sister and...

Blackburn Avenue

When friends of Mum and Dad's , who we called Auntie Hilda and Uncle Sam from Bradford came to stay for...

One Of The Many Air Raids Over The Tyne

The date 15/16April.I lived in Oxford Sreet,No34,with my parents.I was 15 years old.The sirens had sounded...

Bombed Out (Holloway, London)

It wasn't long before another bomb blew out the windows of our house... With bombs dropping my sister...

My memories of the May Blitz: In Bootle

Our cat would jump in the dolly tub under the kitchen table when he heard the siren.Dad would sometimes be...

Bombed Out

We saw the Spitfires attatcking the Germans and hour an hour later came the incendiary bombs... A teacher...

Sister is born in a cellar

With Charlie behind bars with his rowdy Blackshirt mates in Brixton prison, Angela was left to fend for...

Memories of the Blitz

We had two hens and a cockerel, which were in the bomb crater still alive. My brother and me were water...

Surviving Enemy Bombing.

Petts Wood is only a couple of miles from RAF Biggin Hill,and as the air war intensified,our street...

The Night We Were Bombed

A huge bomb dropped on the houses opposite, lots of the railings, bricks, slates from the roofs, landed on...

My Early Years, 1939 - 1945, in the Middle East and Bristol

My father was taken to Barra Gerney Navy hospital in Bristol. We lived in Bristol a while and had to move...

Taking an Unexploded Bomb Home

In the spring of 1941 there were many German bombing raids on Cardiff... Mr Joshua grabbed the bomb rushed...

Memories of the London Blitz, by Lilian Walker

Coming out of an office on Millbank, London, Susie Parrott said to me 鈥淲hat are you doing tonight?...

Is there a Bomb in our Village Pond?

I have a theory that there is a bomb in our village pond. Remember, none of the bombs exploded, so if my...

Thurleigh Airfield

As we shared our school in Bedford with Owens school in London, we had the afternoons off to cycle around...

Trying to Find Shelter

At the time, a 鈥淏ig Bertha鈥� was letting off bombs near Great Homer Street, and a nearby church...

When a German plane flew low over Eccles! by Jean Winstanley

When a German plane flew low over Eccles! by Jean Winstanley. He obviously didn't want to shoot us as...