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The Bomb and The Baby

There's an unexploded bomb in the washhouse....

Bomb Damage- Nosey

I suppose like anyone else during the war, after the raid, my Mum and me used to go and look at the...

Raid on Coventry 1940

I had been put to bed with my younger sister. We had been in bed some time when my mother pulled us...

After the Raids - Dartford

After the night raids on London and the local docks my friends and I emerged from our air raid shelters to...

Manchester Blitz 1941:大象传媒 Piccadilly

My father worked nights at the 大象传媒 in Piccadilly, Manchester....

Bombs Not Sandwiches!

Bombs Not Sandwiches. Her indignant husband exclaimed, "It's bloody bombs they are dropping - not...

Dad's Midland Red Bus in the Air Raids

Mom and Dad lived in ST Lukes St Cradley Heath, and during the second world war Dad worked for the Midland...

Air Raids and Interrupted Entertainment

I have never forgotten that during the war when I was 17 or 18 years old, living in Sydenham, London I went...

Durning Road Air Raid Shelter

My mum walked into town to go to the air raid shelter on the corner of White chapel with my two brothers......

Boy on a Bomb

Robert Laughlin of Ballyclare was stationed in Jackson Fields Barracks on the Holywood Rd with the RURwhen...

London Snippets

My Uncle was a van driver in London... They had a look around and found the light hanging under the van....

Air Raid 1940 mid

Jill was coming back from Birmingham by train where her grandmother lived. Just outside Bristol the train...

London Blitz and the Sally Army

My Mum Jean was a leutenant studying to be a Captain at the Salvation Army College in London during World...

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

My mother lived in Bethnal Green, East London, throughout the war. She must have been deeply affected by it...

Hero is a Man Named DAD

My Dad was working in the local hospital when war broke out so he had to go into The Royal Army Medical...

Best Left Buried

My experience during the six years of my childhood have given me anxiety over the years and periods of...

My Mum in Liverpool: Bombed Out Three Times

I have heard many different stories, but the most memorable is the number of times that they had to leave...

Working for the Army in London

I worked on the electricity supply at the Enfield Royal Small arm factory where they made the Lee Enfield...

Sleeping in the Courage Brewery

Pat's father Bernard worked for Courage Brewery during the war. At the height of the blitz Bernard...

Schoolboy Evacuated from Coventry to Lincoln

The school remained in Lincoln for two and a half years....

ane braw bricht moonlicht nicht

My family were farmers & fruitgrowers, whose land extended right down to the riverside just opposite...

Doodle bugs

As I was born in 1940, I don't remember too much of the war - but I was terrified by the doodle...

Peckham All Lit Up

The Air Raid had been on a little while and now there was a bit of a lull, we were scanning the...

May Blitz: In Liverpool

I remember the dreadful bombing,especially Scotland Road and Netherfield Road, where 300 people were killed...

A Delightful, Dreadful, Shock

Mother hurries her two children out to the Anderson Shelter in the garden.Silence for a while then...

A Bomb After The 'All Clear'

As was usual in the little streets of London, after any event people came out of their front doors to...