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On being bombed out

There was a rumour that British bombs captured by the Germans in the retreat from the continent were being...

Civil Defence and the Doodlebug

One evening, when Mother, Dad, Aunt Mimie and I were together in the hall, poor Mimie was afflicted, like...

Landmines, bombs and rockets

On one of these under table nights we rocked with another near miss, this time from the normal bomb which...

Week-end Leave

As I had eaten in the Salvation Army canteen before I left King's Cross Station I was not hungry when I...

Hitler and my Grandfather - Chapter 4

One stick of bombs had dropped at the bottom of the road adjacent to the main London Kent coast railway but...

Air Raids in Plymouth

When the night bombing raids first started over Plymouth, my parents and I would keep looking over towards...

War Years 1939-45

Ever jovial Uncle Ted and Auntie Edna would bustle their way in, his huge torch to show the way flashing...

Gertrude Alice Bloore: Coventry housewife - Chapter 3

Gertrude was a housewife in Coventry throughout the war, looking after her husband, father, grandfather and...

Memories of the London Blitz

This upset my parents and as London was not being attacked by 鈥楪erry鈥� at this time, they...

Coventry Blitz 1

So Dad, along with many others on the unemployment register, moved down there; Dad to one of the Daimler...

Helping Dad With Fire-Guard Training Duties In Plymouth

After lighting the bomb I checked the wagon, it was full of jerry cans of petrol, so I did the almost...

Gertrude Alice Bloore: Coventry housewife - Chapter 2

Gertrude was a housewife in Coventry throughout the war, looking after her husband, father, grandfather and...

Memories of Living in the City of London during WW2

When the 鈥渁ll clear鈥� sounded at about 5.00am every morning during the bombing of London, we...

a night of terror

I was eleven years old on that particular night and had decided to attend the local Girl Guide's weekly...

Bombed out twice - Living through the Plymouth blitz

'On the morning of Sunday, the 3rd September 1939, my sister and I were making the beds, and my mum was...

Birmingham War Experiences

There is other evidence of a bomb in Gerard Street later in November 1940 in Chinn's book p.113 and the...

Childhood memories of the war 1939-45

She shouted out to us to get down on the floor and to lay flat which we did, suddenly the room seemed...

Rides in the Raids

Whilst the Wardens patrolled thier sectors - checking on every shelter, assuring and reassuring - watching...

Wartime memories part 2

We collected our rations and climbed the crane to the roller path some 150 feet above the dockside... Later...

My Story, by Arthur Simons, Henllan, Denbigh, North Wales

Mum and Dad would go with the girls and I would be responsible for taking Eddie and John, as we boys slept...

Get That Siren Suit On

They were, as the name suggests, one-piece garments with a single zip up the front, designed to slip...

Get That Siren Suit On

They were, as the name suggests, one-piece garments with a single zip up the front, designed to slip...

Coventry Blitz 2

After the horrors of the previous night, Mum and Dad decided that the local air-raid shelter was just as...

The Blitz 鈥� both frightening and exciting

Peckham is only a few seconds flying time from the East End of London, so any pilot who was a split second...

Interview with Eric Atkinson - chapter one

So we lay on top of her, there was me, our Joe and our George and of course the bomb went off...

Bombs, Weddings, Income Tax and Rationing!

Coal was rationed, and on one occasion, one of the girls at the office said that they had a lots of coal...