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Wartime London

I remember the Ministry of Food in Finchley Road where one official was so rude and cruel to my heavily...

Ken Cockshott-Wartime memories.

I got to Piccadilly, they gave me some polythene to sheet up the doors and windows... Joined the boy...

Blitz in Glasgow

On Thursday 13th March 1941 around 9 pm the sirens started over Glasgow My Mum washed my hair that night...

'Get Down That Shelter!': Dartford

One of the things she often told me was that her dad worked in some sort of munitions plant next to...

War in Sanderstaed: A Five to Seven Year Old's View

I was 5 years old watching my dad prune the roses in our garden when he told me that he would be...

Ken Cockshott-Snapshots of War.

My Mother told me to go to Groves and Whitnall Brewery at Regents Bridge, Manchester was burning. Became an...

Getting Away from the Blitz

I lived in south east Peckham, and when they bombed the docks we stood in the road and watched all the...

The Case Of The Disappearing Pub

She was working in a pub in Aldgate at the time. When the IRA were actively planting bombs in London I...

Jimmy's Cafe " Bombed"

She stated:- "When it came to our supper break my driver went to Jimmy's Cafe, as it was then...

Love that Survived the Devastation of the Blitz.

On the night of the Manchester Blitz in December 1940 we were having tea with some friends when the bombing...

Wartime Memories as a Child

It was Friday evening the 14th February 1941, I lived with my parents in a cottage at the rear of some...

Trip to the Cinema - A Lucky Escape in London

However, the local fire wardens bundled us into a car and took us down to the cellar of a large, fairly...

War poems

Can you recall when we first met With hope and dreams we strove to get Bombed out of London Town, so what...

Landmine on Sutton

I rescused my cycle from the debris of the garden shed and rode off to Wawne to fetch my great-uncle and I...

Kept Safe During the Manchester Blitz by "BK"

My memories of World War 2 are numerous, but one I shall always remember is of the night of the Christmas...

Saved by the ARP: Memories of the Norwich Blitz

I walked down the Back-of-the-Inns, turned right at "Mathes" the bakers shop, walked through the...

Story of the Virgin Soldier (News of the Blitz in Belfast)

As he recalls, letter writing was no bother for Robert McIlroy and he would have even seen himself as a...

WW2 Memories No2: Collecting Doors in Walthamstow

To continue from my previous story, my father got a laugh of his own at my Mothers expense later, as the...

Bombed Out in Coventry

Coventry was very heavily bombed during the war possibly because in the First World War there had been an...

Snapshots and Memories: During the Manchester Blitz

Me and some of my colleagues were stranded during an air raid in a shelter in Piccadilly Gardens....

A Roving Potter

During one raid one night, I took shelter with my mum and brother under Silvertown Bridge. Councilmen came...

Sheffield Bombing

Their house looked over Sheffield and we watched the whole of the bombing. I can remember swimming in a...

The Anderson Shelter: In Gravesend

We lived on the perimeter of a fighter aerodrome and just a few miles from the river Thames,so the german...

Coventry Blitz

On Thursday 14th November 1940,the air-raid sirens told us a raid was about to start.Our windows were...

My Most Embarassing Moment: Bristol Blitz

They usually happened as we all were sitting to our evening meal-the main meal of the day-and in many cases...

Hitler and Housework

Our house backed on to the main line railway from Paddington to the West Country and I can remember my...