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Liverpool May Blitz

My Mum and her family lived in Edge Hill close to the sidings at Edge Hill station where her Father worked...

My world war 2 story: A Child in Nottingham

When I got to them, I heard my mother say "Poor thing, she's wet herself with fright". Another...

Memories of bombing raids: Liverpool Blitz

During air-raids, if he was playing out with his older brother, John, the warden would pop them down the...

Bombing of Wimbledon

My mother Florence was born in 1915 and due to the depression came to work in Wimbledon in 1933 and spent...

A Small Child's View of Sirens and Shelters

I do however have very clear memories of pulling myself upright in a cot at the sound of sirens, of my...

Elizabeth and Albert Findlow's Story

The story was typed and entered on to the site by a CSV volunteer with kind permission of Elizabeth and...

German Bombing

After the bombing dad came mighty quick to pick me up in his upright Armstrong Siddeley... She was a superb...

Glasgow Blitz

"This story was submitted to the People's War site by Alison Gowdy of 大象传媒 on behalf of and has been...

Air Raid Shelter: Dancing, Singing and Sandwiches in Birmingham

When the air raids were very bad, my Mother's Sister, her husband and their 5 children would travel on...

Air Raid on South London, 1944

One month before my third birthday, in February 1944, I was at home in Lyham Road, Clapham, with my mother,...

A Fireman in the City of London

My Grandad and Uncle Ted lived in Peckham and at the start of the War Ted joined the Fire Service. One...

Poplar Memories

One came through our scullery roof and as my sister threw water on it, it exploded in front of her and her...

Buried Alive

Henry Kenneth Webb 10 Morton House, Poplar Road, Batchley B47. He then joined the Merchant Navy and worked...

A Londoner's War Story

I lived in London during the war and experienced many months of bombing every night. Bad luck followed them...

At home in Deal & Dover

My stepsister, Edna, was working in a baker's shop in Dealcirca 1943 and the whole shop was bombed with...

Manchester Blitz

I lived in Old Trafford, Manchester, and during one particular bad blitz in our area, a friend of my...

The bombing of Catford School

I was 16 at the time, the sirens used to go to let you know that an attack was imminent but it...

Peggy鈥檚 Story.

Peggy was eight when war started, when she was 11 she was at an all girl's school and was having...

Delivering a Baby in the Coventry Blitz!

Delivering a Baby in the Coventry Blitz. I remember one night of particulary lengthy bombing in Coventry....

Lightning never strikes twice?: Flying Bombs in Essex

One lady, called Mrs. Plumb, lived in a council house in a small development 100yds from the road which ran...

Bomber Over Wingham

This is a story my grandmother Lily Dorothy Freda Bake told me many times... She was cycling to work one...

Luftwaffe Bombing of Manchester Region before Christmas 1940, on Two Consecutive Nights

Luftwaffe Bombing of Manchester Region before Christmas 1940, on Two Consecutive Nights. Every year we...

The Wardrobe

In the aftermath he and his friend David combed the streets and came across a fire in a house on Hannah St....

The Blitz

Staffs County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. I wept for the fear of...

London Alight

I lived in Hackney, East London, near to the common and parks, where guns and searchlights were...

The Night the Ceiling Came Down

My mother, sister Betty and I were all in Mum and Dad's bed on the night in question, we could hear the...