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Childhood Memories of London Blitz

My sister was 10 years-old and we lived in Abbey Wood, a quiet village, on the edge of London and Kent....

Working Amongst the Bombs

My mother didn't put a light on or anything because we were in blackout and I came out of the bedroom,...

The Coventry Blitz and a Surprising Revelation

At the outbreak of war, not long after leaving school, I joined the Civil Defence Volunteers, working in...

Gwen Wilkinson's Memories of Catford Central

Nearly 200 children and teachers were killed buried in the rubble of the large school as well as being...

Up and down the Kenilworth Road on Blitz Night!

I was driving to a dance at the Abbey Hotel in Kennilworth, and even the clock tower in Kennilworth was hit...

Rusty the Spaniel and the War's Affect on a Boy.

Rusty the Spaniel and the War's Affect on a Boy. This is a tale of Rusty, our Cocker Spaniel, living in...

Sheffield In The Blitz

Our house on Melrose Road had a long back garden which ran down to the edge of Burngreave Cemetery. A stand...

Hitler bombed our house

My dad, who was in the navy had just come home on a weeks leave from his base in Belfast, which had...

14 September 1940 - My Parents' Wedding Day

Several of mum's aunts and uncles came along from Durham and Yorkshire for the wedding even though they...

Milk Bottles

So, before it was known vitamin B was destroyed by light, milk bottles sat on the window sill to keep cool....

Miracles Do Happen

At the outbreak of war, my family home was in Sutton, Surrey, about 15 miles south of London. As my father...

World War II Air Raid Shelters.

Examples of this were the use of some London Underground tunnels as air-raid shelters and, not far from...

Dad's Story R D Tonkin

It fell and struck me on the index finger of my right hand where a scar still remains to this day. I...

Memories of the Sheffield Blitz

I was in Sheffield all through the war, and started nursing when I was 19. We could hear the bombs falling...

No time to get to the shelter

Dad had rushed home from our greengrocer's shop in Sydney Street, as he'd heard that Ashton Street...

The War comes to the North West of England

In December 1940 the planes came over Manchester and Salford for three nights whilst the Blitz continued...

the way things were

We two boys slept under a cot in the living room Brian was a baby he slept in the cot, Mum put...

Mr Harold Pacey & a Lucky Escape!

Mr Pacey- who was then only sixteen years of age and an A.R.P messenger who regularly reported to the...

Mr Harold Pacey & a Lucky Escape!

Mr Pacey- who was then only sixteen years of age and an A.R.P messenger who regularly reported to the...

Manchester Blitz

The casualties came and I went on duty straight away, part of which involved taking their details etc....

Violet Osborne's Blitz memories

She opened the door and she saw an incendary bomb that was bouncing backwards and forwards across the road...

The May Blitz

Then it happened we saw Lewiss ‘Big Ben’ clocked engulfed in flames, and my sister Joan...

THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES - NOVEMBER BLITZ - JANET CLARK

I was born and bred in Kingswood near Bristol and lived with my parents and my elder sister in a small...

"A sight you'll never forget"

I lived in Bristol during the war and it was bombed quite considerably... I remember the whistling of the...

Clydebank Blitz

It was a beautiful moonlight night when the siren went off at 9.00 p.m. I met my dad on his way looking...

The Wartime Memoirs of a Teenager