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Stories categorised in 'The Blitz'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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John Cheetham's Memories of the Bombings

Behind our houses was Gordeney House, so John and his friend - Brian Baker - used to climb over the wall to...

Bristol Blitz- Childhood Memories

We were told as children that all the bells would ring if invasion was going to happen... We emerged into...

Memories of the Blitz

I remember standing on the top a brick built shelter in the road looking towards the City of London with...

"I'll Be Your Sweetheart"

"This story was submitted to the People's War site by Alison Gowdy of on behalf of Margaret Jeffrey...

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A Child's Memories: The Blitz in West Ham

My first memory of the war was September 7th 1940 and I remember that my sister and me were sitting under...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (air raids)

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2. Although the air raids on Belfast and other cities...

Child of the Blitz:Sheffield

Because this was not diagnosed for a few weeks, it was suspected that the ankle bone had become tubercular...

Peter Bamford-Wartime Memories.

My father was the Sergeant Mayor of the Home Guard in Crumpsall and my mother was the switchboard operator...

War Memories: Of the Liverpool Blitz

(1) My father an A.R.P warden was out nightly during the blitz.During the air raids I was in the dark...

George Medalicon for Story with photo

This story is about my husband's grandfather who was awarded the George Medal. Albert George Chappel...

Child's view of air raids on Bristol

I was home from school for some minor illness and when the air raid sirens sounded I went down to the...

Air Raid Memory

The night that Coventry was heavily bombed his mother took them outside the house to see the glow in the...

The Birchwood Bombing

Married September 1939 Dark and wet October 17th 9pm 1940 Air raid warning 8.35 pm, after 10 minutes the...

Blitz 1940

One night the area around his home was subjected to an intense bombardment by German aircraft dropping both...

The Parrot story

It should be pointed out that the parrot had lived with us in Roehampton before we moved to Ewell in the...

My Father's Story Blitz 1940

My Father lived with his mother in South East London. He had closed up his home and moved his mother to the...

The Blitz in New Cross

Realizing how foolish it was to hide in a glass telephone booth, I ran out again and lay in the gutter with...

After the First Blitz- Raids on Bristol

We were living in the suburbs of Bristol, Earnest was in the auxillary fire sevice stationed at...

My First Memory

I see a 3 year old sitting in a high chair in hospital, scrubbing the table with a piece of apple and...

In the school air raid shelter

Cardboard boxes did not last long on schoolboys shoulders and enterprising shops sold metal canisters for...

Surviving a Direct Hit on our Home

I have retained a keen interest into the events of that night and have researched the Essex County...

Bombing of Falmouth Methodist Church

Having nothing better to do I went down to my Church, Falmouth Methodist Church on the Moor, where I knew...

True Facts

St Anne's School was hit by a bomb... 1949 I got married, my husband George was a soldier in the...

Doodlebug Encounter

During the latter half of the war my family were living in a requisitioned house at Ealing Common,West...

wartime memories: A Child in London

My sister was 3 yrs and I was 2yrs when WW2 started. my earliest memories were of going into the street in...

The Bombing: Derby, January 15th 1941

As my father looked up into the sky he saw what he thought looked like 'lit electric bulbs' seconds...

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