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The Bombing of Swanpool Fuel Storage Depot

At midnight on May 30th 1944 German aircraft attacked the Swanpool Fuel Depot near Falmouth. After the...

Childhood Memories of Bombing 1944

Following the bombing in Kensal Rise, we moved to a lovely house just on the edge of Streatham Common: at...

"A Freak Accident"

Greenock is a shipyard area on the River Clyde and there was also a large number of tenement buildings near...

A Night In May

We started the night in our beds but by midnight the siren had gone and the heavy drone of heavily ladened...

Hampton Hill Horror

Having settled for the night, still badly shaken, after a short while, Wardens came crashing on the front...

War Time Service in the St John

My father got me a job at a manufacturer of coffee and chicory extracts where he worked and the chief...

PLANES, RATIONS AND HENS!

At the start of the war, Bert was a schoolboy living in Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. Business began to boom...

Saved by a collar stud

I took my wife and baby son to the shelter and then rode my bike towards the air raid wardens post... As...

1939 and the last war

After the chaos was sorted out, my office was evacuated to the outskirts of Roborough... In 1941 I met and...

Manchester's Worst Night of the Blitz

I had a job as a clerk at Fred Fishwick Ltd on Peter Street in Manchester - which was exactly opposite the...

Bombs, Dances and Good Fortune

There was loads of Americans came to Hull and in Cottingham; in Cottingham there was a couple of halls...

The Blitz would not even stop for Christmas

During December there was a lull in raids on London and we thought that even the Germans would take a...

Eastend Blitz

Eastend Blitz...

Memories of the Blitz in Manchester

Every Christmas, Silcock's Fair came to our local Croft, dispensing fun, laughter and juvenile thrills...

"LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS"

I was to be bridesmaid at my sister's wedding, but I couldn't stay in Coventry because of the...

War Time Call Up

On another occasion, when I was at home in Bilton Grove, Hull, a landmine fell behind our house... One good...

Black, Khaki & Blue(3 Uniforms) Part 2 of 2

We arrived at the scene of the fire and got to work & had nearly got it out, when whiz, whiz. whiz...

My experiences as a nine year old from 1939 to 1945

My friends and I would go round the streets looking for shrapnel and shell nose caps but alas like the old...

A school boy in London blitz part two

Shortly after the siren had sounded the sound of aeroplanes was overhead and U went into the garden to...

The Sheffield blitz

After we had pulled our selves together we crawled through the tunnel into next door's cellar, and...

Bombs over Battersea

Living in Battersea, we had our fair share and, although we had a small brick shelter in the back yard, it...

Shelters

It was not very pleasant lying in bed, hearing the sirens; then the throbbing sound of the German bombers...

Gulson Rd Hospital (St John's Ambulance)

At the age of 14 years and having left school in 1939 and being a cadet in the Coventry Division of the...

Misplaced account

My friends and I would go round the streets looking for shrapnel and shell nose caps but alas like the old...

Fighting Fires in Stourbridge and Worcester

In about 1943 the National Fire Service was formed and I was then posted to their Head Quarters at Bevere...

A Birthday I Shall Never Forget