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I Came with the German Bombers

It was decided to move all the mothers with their newborn babies to the safety of an air-raid shelter, but...

Belfast Blitz

I lived in Ballynure Street, off the Oldpark Road in Belfast during the Blitz. I was at a dance at...

London Blitz

We stayed at a pub on the side of the River Kennet... As he carried me across the road he looked up...

Surviving the Coventry air raids

The programme each evening now is to get home as early as possible, have a meal and set off in the car,...

Evacuated

We left from Gateshead East station, full trains of kids... In 1940 I went of to my mothers cousin in...

An Eventful Evening

On March 16th 1941 my sister and I went to our Grandmothers off Pennywell Road... The bodies were then...

Our Luck

Leonard, who suffered from the after effects of polio, was not called up but did clerical work at the power...

Anderson Shelter Memories: In Bermondsey

When the anderson shelter was built the family had to follow Pat's grandfather Tom to the shelter......

Up to the Fields

I was sixteen when the Yanks came over, after that it was jitter bugging in the Plaza and the Orpheus where...

The Birmingham Blitz

The factory next door to us was set on fire by a fire bomb called the Molotov... When I left school at...

Evacuation Day

My Nan used to keep a button in her sewing basket, she said it was special to her - I asked her...

Bombing Of Bottom of Margate High Street

I went to work in a drapers shop in Margate High Street, Tyler & Dingwell....

Good Timing

Each morning without fail my Father caught the 7.20 am Tram from the Junction to his work... Just catching...

Fire Watching

My father, Alexis, being too old to be enlisted into the army for active service, joined a fire watching...

Doreen Bush's Blitz

Doreen went to Marywood Grammar School and on Sundays they always walked to her grandmother's in...

Air Raid

My uncle , who was not yet old enough for conscription , was working near the London Road pumping station ,...

1941 Air Raids

On the winter of 1941 and I had gone to the cinema on my own called the 'bughouse' and we heard the...

My War Time Experience: A Teacher in Sheffield

On the night of Friday 13th December 1940, after a prolonged air raid, I was evacuated to a house in...

Fire Watch at the Greenock Blitz

After the night of 6th May we were turned out to the distillery in Baker Street... Most of it was lying...

Matthew Bank Bombings

One night the bombs seemed to be closer....

Don't Come Out Mrs!

The germans dropped a load of incendiary bombs in Cross Heath... Two brothers named Hancock who lived...

Doodlebug

It was August 1944 and I was eight years old.I was on holiday with my aunt in Williams Road, Southall in...

Socks: Smells in the Cellars of the Ansells Brewery

I suppose we were lucky we got through the war and now are able to tell our grand-children our tales....

A Kid's Vision: Bombed Out in Hackney

I was with my Mum Kitty and brother David... Mum opened the front door and as we stood there, in silence, I...

Memories: Shed for a Shelter

When the war broke out I was a young girl only seven years old - I remember the German bombers following...

Putney's Wartime Entertainment

During the war we were those who brought the Cinema Entertainment to the people in Putney. We came from the...