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Bomb in Waller Street

I was on my round and I was coming down a hill in Waller Road, New Cross when I noticed a little...

Six Eggs

She related how one night a bomb dropped at the end of the street 200 yards away and the initial blast...

Blitz on Liverpool

My father drove all over Liverpool at night, with virtually no lights on his motorbike,delivering messages...

Bombs and Baths

We got bombed there by an incendiary... One day while John was away, while I was in the bath, a bomb blew...

Air Raid: On Birkenhead in 1942

During the ensueing journey to the shelter we were continually being showered with shrapnel from the anti...

A Gruesome Sight in the London Blitz

Her neighbour and friend's house had been a direct hit... But worst of all there were bits of her...

Dark During the Day!

My dad was inside an air raid shelter with his mum,dad and 4 brothers during a DAYLIGHT air raid. Story...

Landmine Near Us!

I was 9 years old at the time of the Coventry blitz.We all slept in a downstairs room as a safety...

Forest Gate Cinema

One Saturday afternoon in September 1940 my mother and I went to the cinema to see "Wuthering...

Bombing of Rushden

Reg Wheeler was in Geoff Morgan's shop in Church Street when a bomb embedded itself at the foot of the...

Olives Ugly Doll

I recall my mother going out on Christmas Eve to work - I also knew she intended to get me a doll...

Acton Air Raid

My father, Bert Friston, was an engine driver on the Great Western Railway from the 1930's until he...

Canaries in a Coventry Air Raid

When we entered the lounge the canaries were singing but they were the colour of crow's,...

Birthday and Priorities

I remember the ARP Wardens blowing whistles as they walked around the fields to announce the outbreak of...

Attack on Swansea, 1941

I was the youngest of 5 brothers during the war in Swansea... What we thought was a bomb blast, was in fact...

A Glow on the Horizon

My parents had been visiting an aunt for Christmas,but now they had to return to their home in Central...

East End Horror

The East End took most of the damage in the second World War, and my street - Quicket Street, Bow E3 -...

Bomb Fall In Garlinge

Alf and Bert would go from Garlinge tothe \Margate Gas Works... Alf and Bert saw the german plane drop...

Greenock Blitz: Incendiaries

And my sister and I, we ran up into the house and there was an incendiary bomb blazing like mad in the...

Blitz in Greenock: Service as an Ambulance Driver

Grandfather had some property at the Mill dam in Port Glasgow and he was well off enough to support mother,...

The Day the Pub Got Blown Up

My family lived at STODMARSH a place called ROOKARY NOOK, the closes village was sturry, i can remenber my...

Recounting the 2 nights of the Clydebank Blitz

My name is Tam Cairns and I am 63 years old... No, these are the memories of my mother, Mary Cairns born...

Air Raids Minus a Roof! — Liverpool Blitz

My dad Bowen and Grandad George were having a few pints of beer, as dad was home on leave from the Merchant...

Living in Luton During the War

In 1940, just after coming back home from school, I had to go from my house to the shelter I looked up...

Llanuwchllyn Blitzed

Of course because they were in the country they didn't think about Natzi aeroplanes coming their way,...

Mrs Nash

I was in church in the evening when the big raid on Castle St started - the minister had chosen a hymn...