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The End of the Supermarine Works (Wooston): Home of the Spitfire

When we finally emerged we found that a bomb had come through the roof directly overhead the chief...

The Bombing of Liverpool

The autumn of 1940 brought the first German bombs to Liverpool. When the planes were going back to Germany,...

WAR TIME RECOLLECTIONS

It was the 27th April 1942, I was 11 years old and living at 46 Southwell Road in Norwich with my parents...

Some Childhood Memories age 4 to 10

During the war, weekday local dances were held in the town at the Carmel Hall and Lloyds Clubhouses at...

War Time Stories from Clive Street, Cardiff

I ran into the playground, looked up and just skimming the school roof was a German airplane, with total...

Fire Watching in Battersea - A Teenager at War

One day a bomb landed in St Phillip's Church. We didn't actually have a bomb on our house, but I...

How a Glasgow child grew up quickly

I was too young to know why my mum and I stood with the others on the rural Perthshire rail platform...

Homeless in Coventry

On the third night following the devestation of our house, we heard about an air-raid shelter underneath...

War Memories - James Webb

I lived in Beard Street which was part of the Old Hanky Park in Pendleton, Salford. By seven o鈥� clock...

"Wartime 1941"

Meals on rationing were not banquets and biscuits and cheese, if there was any cheese, with a cup of cocoa...

When The Docks "Went up"

It was quiet for weeks.....for months, after war had been declared and we got blase'about leaving our...

15 years old

When it happened again the workmen replaced all our windows with hardboard - after that we had no daylight...

Saved by a hat

By now we had missed the start of the cinema programme so mother suggested an alternative: shopping at Mr...

Surviving the Bombings of 1940 [David Taylor]

More so because the next day her younger brother was killed when the ship he was working on in Dover was...

An Unforgettable Cinema Visit

Overhead German and English fighter planes were battling it out and we could hear the whine of bombs, it...

Barrow Bombing may 1941

'Today we drove round Coniston Water, an area beautiful at any time, but particularly so in its full...

One Night in Dover 鈥� 鈥淗ellfire Corner鈥�

On reaching the manhole, John's Dad was to be seen hanging by his trousers 鈥� still clutching the...

The May Blitz 1941: Brave Auntie Annie

Uncle Benny, Auntie Jane, Auntie Annie, Uncle and Auntie Jane were all dug out of the ruins but did not...

Cardiff Blitz 1941

He managed to get me and my mother into the car and then we had a very bumpy ride through the freezing...

Memories w.w.11

At the outbreak of war I was a messenger working for the Port of London Authority in their head office at...

Kathleen Hilditch's Wartime Theatre Memories - Blackout

The almost silent concentration of rehearsals, then the howl of the siren, tension building; though...

OUR JOAN

I had seen some big black bags before, but Mum told me they were to hold people's belongings when their...

Childhood Memories

One of the pastimes for boys like myself was collecting shrapnel, I had a real collectors piece that my...

What did you do in the War, Granny? For Tom White Junior, aged 9 yrs

GRANDSTAND VIEW!

I could identify not only the Spitfire, Hurricane, Messerschmidt, Dornier, Heinkel etc, but knew which Mark...

Barrage Balloons

The top of the balloon was filled with hydrogen, the bottom half was left empty, so when it was put up at...