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Blitz Story, Romford

The shell of the house stood with a gaping hole in the centre, the front door had blown off and the stairs...

Fires in London

I could stand outside my house in Letchworth in Hertfordshire and we could see London burning after it had...

Liverpool Blitz Seen From Azalea Road.

His Dad, my Grandpa, was away in the Navy, working convoys across the North Atlantic. Dad told me about...

Wedding Blues

Her wedding dress and brides maids dresses were being stored at a shop in the Centre called...

Father's story

He was an electrician in Coventry on the day of the blitz in Coventry. He said that all the buildings that...

Bombed Out in Exeter

He hurriedly picked up his watch and a few sovereigns, and ran from the building as it was being bombed....

Dad on a Pitchfork

The house at the rear of Pat's home was bombed and Bernard jumped over the wall to see if he could help...

The Teapot Lid Mystery

On returning home after the raid the teapot which was left on the table,was missing the lid.The lid had...

Watching the bombers

I was a child in WW2 and I remember standing in the front garden of my house and watching a long line...

Raid on Ramsgate 24 August 1940

My father George Edward Farley was fatally wounded while on duty as an air raid warden on 24 Aug 1940. He...

Manchester Blitz

Although we were not living in the centre of Manchester, it was a horrible experience....

Harrogate's Only Bomb

I think it was 1941, when THE bomb dropped in Harrogate. It fell on the Hotel Majestic -did little damage...

Mines!

The bombers came up the river and dropped a mine a few streets away from where he lived... As he was...

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*. Well my nan was telling me she was in the blitz and she...

My Mum's W.W.2. Experience

My Mum Frances Kelley was born December 1935... One night her mother had just bathed my mum, her sister and...

Hasty Birth - the Blitz in Newcastle-under-Lime

My mother was in the limes maternity hospital awaiting my birth when the germans dropped a bomb on the...

German Bomber in the Sky

As a young boy, i was walking up the side of the school, when i noticed a german aircraft in the distance,...

Birmingham Blitz - Choppers No Good!

Birmingham Blitz - Choppers No Good. One night during the blitz on Birmingham the air raid sirens went, and...

The Westminster Hotel

One direct hit was recorded on the Westminster Hotel....

winchelsea 1943

I was just a baby when a bomb was dropped on our house in winchelsea east sussex I have only recently been...

Grandma and the broom

When I was small, my grandpa used to tell me a story about how he came home one day during the blitz,...

Clean Undies

As my Grandma and her daughters got ready to spend the night in the air raid shelter, she would tell them...

Grandad's War

So one night, we, after the siren had sounded, instead of galloping down to the cellar, galloped outside to...

The Air Raids on Plymouth

We stayed on at our house in Alexandra Road, Dad, Uncle Willie, Edna, Doreen and I. We were busy at that...

MIND MY BIKE*

Liverpool police truncheons were commonly two-and-a-half feet long, made of hard wood with a leather thong...

MIND MY BIKE*

Liverpool police truncheons were commonly two-and-a-half feet long, made of hard wood with a leather thong...