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Sewing Factories

I worked in a sewing factory making shirts but they turned us over to make battle dress. If you were...

The Bombing in Albert Street

I was in bed, and the first explosive insendry bombs dropped and demolished a row of houses that had been...

I was there during the blitz: The East End of London

My Mother saying DearGod dont let it drop on us, then she would say after, some poor devil got it... There...

Coventry Blitz Pre-Warned.

It is possible not very many people knew, I am assuming it was the government that knew and advised the...

Luftwaffe Blitz on London

I was a boy of 14 living in London and during the blitz by the Luffwaffe, I read a small item in...

Christmas

So I was the postman and this was my Christmas present, and I went happily around the shelter, delivering...

Irony of War

We were first bombed out from Britton St. E.C.1, we then moved to Little Sutton St, E.C.1... We carried on...

A German plane crashes

My Mother, Joan Quirk, lived in Milton Avenue, Widnes, and often told us the story of a German bomber plane...

Bath Blitz 1942

26th April 1942 at approx 2330hrs my mother sue was walking home alongside the river Avon in ferry lane...

Matthew Bank Bombs

I recall one night when the Germans bombed Matthew Bank, my father took us to the front door and we watched...

The Night London Caught Fire - December 12th 1941

I remember walking to the edge of the city of London, Aldgate, and seeing the fire engines lined up,...

A Teenage Memory

I worked in a new firm in Bessemer Road, Attercliffe for just four days... I got a tram to Bessemer Road,...

Memories from N.I

Memories too of Donaghadee and RAF rescue launch based at Harbour, sinking of s.s Troutpool, stranding of...

The Greenock Blitz: Taking Shelter on a Farm

My brother was friendly with Archie Millar, a farmer, and it was to his farm we all went. My brother...

A Strange Bathing: Blitz in Hillingdon

Her mum then ran back to the house to pick up her sister, Celia, and took her to the shelter - only...

Wallasey in the Blitz

I spoke to my parents just before they died regarding their memories of Wallasey in the war,mum in...

Soho Road, Handsworth on Fire

During 1941 there were regular bombing raids on Handsworth in Birmingham — it was horrible, We...

Blitz on Wellington Barracks Chapel

We were having a break and a cup of tea at a Salvation Army mobile canteen when a V1 came down and...

A Magnetic Mine in Dulwich

I went to Dulwich college leaving college in 1939 when they proposed to evacuate the college to Devon, but...

The Lace Market Gets Hit: Nottingham

Apparently,before she was called up for work in munitions,she set out for work as usual in the famous Lace...

The Westminster Hotel

The story that emerges from the following documents held in the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office...

WW2 Playgrounds in Leytonstone

In my little area there were no playgrounds...this is Mayville Road in Leytonstone. The other bomb was in...

Rescue Work in the London Blitz

In a bed was a young girl, aged about 17. She ahd a part of steel girder sticking out of her chest;she...

The Blitz

My mother and I, aged 10, had recently returned from evacuation in Shropshire, as nothing dangerous seemed...

The first air raid: On Southampton

I was 17 when war was declared and living with my mum and dad in Waterhouse Way, Regents Park, Southampton....

The Mayflower Hotel: In Plymouth

His father,my great great granda, who owned the Mayflower Hotel, though they would fly over and bomb the...