It must have been an uneventful day in the war for that raid merited a brief sentence in the German...
Our house on Melrose Road, had a long back garden, which ran down to the edge of Burngreave cemetery. A...
Dad had only been home a couple of days when the air raid siren went off... Mum and Dad started to clear...
Joe Carley wrote extensive diaries throughout his life and some, covering his war service in the Home...
The Belfast Waterworks and its reservoir and the nearby Cliftonville cricket grounds must have excited the...
That evening we only had gas in the house, Father had no gas on either because he had no money for the...
I remember one night a Heinrich Bomber was so low coming over the hill I could see the pilot in his glass...
My name was Mary Codd and I was just 15 years old when War was declared on the radio, listening with my...
In 1940 when the German air force a started bombing campaign against Britain, Birmingham was a prime...
My brothers Vic, Len and I, in the care of our Irish childminder Breda, were treated to an evening at the...
My mother Tilly stated that firemen from Caerphilly,Ystrad Mynach and Bargoed fought the fire which was in...
During the period when enemy aircraft were over London bombing each night, a good night's sleep was...
I was 7 years old at the outbreak of war in September 1939 and was evacuated to Reading to stay with an...
Henfield was never a target for the German bombers but occasionally bombs would be jettisoned over the...
We were directly under the flight path of the German bombers coming to bomb London... We dreaded bright...
Dingles also had a temporary building too - just off Mutley Plain and Spooners had to amalgamate the staff...
It was a bright moonlit night as we trailed across the course, Someone in our group suggested we lie down...
My first recollection of hearing sirens was being in the centre of Birmingham at night and trying to get...
Eventually, after 60 years, the British Government, mainly through the persuasive powers of Terry Joll,...
However they were unaware that they were heading for even more danger as they arrived in London for the...
I was working in Fairfield Shipyard as a tracer. At the time of the blitz some bombs had fallen and made...
Presumably German bombers, intent on boming Manchester and Liverpool docks had followed the glint of the...
Recommended story
Story with photo
