Like many people in London, my grandmother who owned the house decided to have the cellar shored up to use...
It was my father's misfortune to be on duty on the three nights that the City burnt. He explained the...
In 1938 the family moved to Coventry, as my grandfather, a miner, transferred to the colliery there. Vida...
I heard this account from my uncle,Ian, The story was told to him by my mother who was an Ambulance driver...
The air-raid siren was situated immediatly outside our front door and had not sounded before an oil bomb...
I came up the cellar stairs and our neighbours' daughter, Eileen Potter, ran round and asked "is...
When my granddad was doing homeguard training to join the navy; the officers were fatally injured when they...
When we arrived home everything was in a terrible mess, windows blown out, soot from the chimney all over...
During 1940 when I was working as a Methodist deaconess at St. George's, Cable Street in the East End...
On one particular day the siren had sounded so I went to play in my friends shelter in the house opposite,...
The bomb landed about 1/4 mile away....
Jimmy and Lenny begged mum to stay and wanted to just sleep in their bed. Thank God for our Mum, her...
I stayed at 13 Belville Street in the east end of Greenock and I was 14 at the time. The distillery was...
She made communication equipment for submarines.Living in Wallasey she had to get a boat over to Liverpool...
When looking at the lounge were were told that the table was indeed a Morrison shelter and to which two...
The following story is not mine, It is of a lady that I had interviewed on behalf of the 大象传媒 on trafalgar...
I was 11 years old & Geoff was 14 we were in the heeley picture house on dec.13 when a notice appeared...
The doddlebugs were the most fearsome weapons, flying bombs that destroyed my home and killed several young...
My grandmother and Aunt were visiting my Mother and I to give me my birthday present, when the sirens...
I went to Saffron Walden with my sister and we looked across to London and it'd be a mass of flames......
HUNDREDS OF TINS OF PILCHARDS AND HERRINGS IN TOMATOE SAUCE, RAINED DOWN ON THE SURROUNDING STREETS WITH A...
During one air raid in broad daylight on a February afternoon a lone German plane dropped a bomb on the...
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