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Close Encounters of the air raid kind

About half way across I heard the sound of bomb blasts and machine gun fire from up river, Newton Abbot...

By then, Dad had perfected our air-raid shelter...

From the outbreak of war until the following spring we had a ‘phoney’ war in Britain but then...

Alert!

When World War Two began,we were boys in the infants class,learning to form the letters of the alphabet...

War in Edge Hill

My father Jim Laverty, who was in the Home Guard, mother Fanny, myself Frances and my brother and two...

Memories of New Moston, Manchester

Our parents were unsure as to what to do with the onset of WW2 and thought it would be best for us...

14-11-40 The Aftermath

14-11-40 was the date when Germany bombed Coventry from dark until dawn. Recently, on TV, I saw someone...

Watching the Belfast Blitz from Afar

My brother and aunt went up into the mountains and saw Belfast burning, but to me it just sounded like...

Blitz On Sheffield-Thursday Night (12th December, 1940)

Representatives of different parts of the Town Hall sat at desks in the Reference Library to deal with...

Your story edited and categorised

My father had been a teenage Kings Liverpool infantryman in World War 1 and even though he was a Dock Pilot...

In a split second timing...

The council people were catering for these situations all over the place and we were housed temporarily in...

War Reminiscences

Sheffield was still blazing, trams were on fire and what I thought were bodies were dummies that had blown...

BOMBING OF LONDON : SEPTEMBER TO CHRISTMAS 1940

Between September and Christmas 1940 the bombers flew each night and each night we stood on the lawn at the...

Schooldays in Hull's Blitz.

On one occasion just as this was happening and bombing felt to be imminent, my anxious mother turned up at...

Incendiaries — and the most frightening night of my life.

Dad grabbed his helmet, bucket and the pump, and called to me, “Run to the Davises’, quick! I...

Random recollections of the Hull Blitz

After air raids in Hull, centres were set up in areas bombed to issue food and clothing coupons and to...

The Uncanny Story of a Flying Bomb

There were Questions in Parliament during the week following D-Day about mysterious explosions in Sussex...

your contribution

There was me, my husband John and our two boys, John and David. Once, when I had young John with me so...

The Worst Night of my Life - the Sheffield Blitz

The song of the siren

We had been to the nearby Welsh chapel to have our gasmasks fitted,blue for boys,red for girls,with little...

Firewatching With Auntie

I lived with my gran and my two Aunts Lil and Ede... When the shelters were built a firewatching post was...

Memories of WW2

One night after we got the family into the Anderson Shelter in the back garden, father, granddad and myself...

V1 Upper Richmond Road

My father, thought that it would be a good idea if they could see for themselves what it was like living in...

Memories of Mr Taggart

Baffel Wall at close entrance, turnpike stairs, outside toilet, attic flat with dormer windows overlooking...

Some Birthday

It was 1940, we lived in a pub in the centre of Manchester called the 'Lass'o'Gowrie'. It...

Our Blitz Story

When we emerged the next morning we were greeted by an air raid warden with the news that an unexploded...

Wartime story of a 9-year-old boy

My father fitted a door to the Air Raid shelter so that we could have a candle burning until the all clear...