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Mum's War Memories

By this time, my sister had been conscripted for war work and had been sent to Vickers Armstrong in...

Evacuation and Bliz

Friday was bath night in a tin bath in front of the fire, and it was decided that as a neighbour at...

London Blitz 1941

Meanwhile I rushed over the road with a bucket of water and was able to refill Jean Goschalk's - and...

Surviving the bombing of London

My mother got very homesick living in Wales and returned to her mother's home in Clapton, North London....

Safe in the Country?

We lived in one of my dad's little cottages overlooking the Cattewater and Mountbatten, where Air Sea...

Clydebank Blitz

There was an Air raid shelter at the work for all employees, but my friend and I went into the field beside...

My Memory of the Blitz aged 13

On the afternoon of Sunday the 24th of November 1940 I went from my home in Bishopston, up to my Aunty...

Stepney Revisited

On the Saturday aftrnoon when those German planes came over dropping thousands of incendiary bombs to set...

The Air Raid Siren

I was put into my siren suit and Mum and Dad told me we would be going to Dad's Mother's house in...

The Norwich Blitz

When we reached the back door we were stunned to see the whole garden lit up by aircraft flares and before...

A Close Shave

Our main pastime as kids was collecting shrapnel which is bits of bomb and shell. My aunt was quite happy,...

Experince of growing up in WW2 (Born 1930)

Living not far from Burtonwood U.S. Airbase meant excitement as the bombers flew in or out on various...

A young boy's experience in 1940's England

A fireman had erected a long ladder and was climbing towards me exhorting me to hold on and that I would...

Dad went hoppity hop .Bombs-Broomfield Essex

Dad went hoppity hop,Broomfield, CHELMSFORD. We lived in a bungalow in Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex....

An Urchins Memories

In the blitz of 1940 my father decided it was to dangerous for us children and Mum to stay in London, so...

A Teenagers War

After that things seem to telescope a little,both my elder brother Philip and my uncle Arthur were both in...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - German Air Raids.

During daytime air raids German Heinkel and Donier aircraft were seen flying to and returning from our...

A Bomber's Moon

Soon our ears picked up the familiar drone of an enemy aircraft, but before we could turn into the house...

In the Royal Observer Corps

memories of World War Two

I lived in Swansea which was an important sea port, where ships docked after crossing the Atlantic, running...

Civilian - School Boy Memoirs

This excerpt from 鈥淣uneaton in the 30s and 40s鈥� has been published in the Nuneaton & North...

My war - early years

One was in real factory land, Nechells in Birmingham, and the other in Shenstone, a tiny village just...

THE COVENTRY BLITZ 鈥� 14TH NOVEMBER 1940

There were horrific sounds of raging fires all around, I recall in particular the fires at Cashes Ribbon...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part one)

August 31st 1940 Saturday Siren sounded 8.10 am All Clear 9 am Have just arrived at the office 10 am Its a...

Leading a Sheltered Life

On the whole Jimmy and I slept quite well, despite the fact that a mobile Ack-Ack gun ran along the tracks...

London Blitz, 39 to 45

He was based in the City of London on office roofs for outbreaks of fires due to incendiary bombs falling....