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Living Through The Blitz In London

One day, during another air raid, a Doodlebug landed in one of the ponds on Hampstead Heath very near to...

ANGELS IN HOBNAIL BOOTS

Soon there were a lot more tears and sobbing as mothers hugged their children and neighbours clasped and...

Bombs Accross New Malden

My father, Alfred Martin, had fought in the First World War, so he was well accustomed to digging trenches...

FROM PEACE TO WAR AND BACK

Our first home was in Leicester Causeway, later moving to 9 Ash Grove off Stoney Stanton Road....

Memories of the Blitz on Hull

It has been know for a German aircraft to fly low machine gunning the streets after the all clear; also for...

Manchester and National Service

There were bombs at Kearsley, Farnworth, Worsley and incendiary bombs around Walkden. No bombs as such in...

Manning the Guns at Hayes Common (extract from my autobiography)

Manning the Guns at Hayes Common. I remember one night I had the night off from manning the guns and of...

Evacuation and the Blitz: Wartime memories from Cirencester and Hackney

One day I was going to meet a friend when the air raid warning sounded, a flying bomb and I was blown...

Liverpool bombing

Yes, Wellington Avenue took a direct hit, Smithdown Road, then Oxford Street Hospital, Wellington Avenue...

Tea saves the day as usual

One young lady had lost six members of her family, mum, dad, sisters and brothers, when a public shelter in...

Near miss at Woodside Park, London

Whilst I was living at Walmington Fold in Woodside Park, I had a very near miss. About 1941, without any...

"A memory of the Exeter Blitz"

One of the men who lived near her was a bus driver for Exeter Corporation Transport and each night he...

Elsie Nevatt (nee Diamond)

When the sirens went, we lived in Middlesbrough and my Mam used to go to the nearest depot, she used to...

Leicester Memories

Leicester was never bombed to the extent that places like Coventry and Hull were. During a daylight raid,...

BIRMINGHAM IN THE BLITZ

He said he just wanted to say that he had seen a parachutist drop from the sky, and he said he was...

Bombed Out in Clapham Common

By that I mean, if I close my eyes I recall images of cold, flashes of fire, thunder of bombs, the hum...

electric war work

When the sirens went, we lived in Middlesbrough and my Mam used to go to the nearest depot, she used to...

Bombers' Moon

I called that we were ok and pulled aside the mattress and blankets to see that our window was scattered...

Nursing in the War

I was living in Cheshire, in Wallasey, the other side of Liverpool, and I went through the Blitz there. I...

Bombed Out

Mum tried to open the door, but it was jammed and she and my gran began to shout for help... Gran still...

My Tenth Birthday 1940

On this particular evening before my birthday I was taken to the cinema as a treat to see 鈥楾he Rose...

Amy Astbury tells the story of Messines Park Bombing

A single Luftwaffe bomber dropped two parachute mines one of which landed harmlessly in a sandpit beside a...

War on Our Doorstep

During the beginning of the war, I lived in a council house in West Hendon in London with my mum and dad...

Glasgow Blitz

During the was my father was a lieutenant in the Home Guard in Glasgow and we lived at 345, Alderman Rd...

Direct Hit on a Filton Airfield Shelter

On 25th September, 1940, I was an apprentice at the BACFilton,when 'Jerry' came over in the...

Under the English Sun

During one raid, incendiary bombs dropped all around the area and two landed in the garden not ten feet...