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Bombs, bombs and more bombs

But by about six o'clock you'd start getting your bedding ready to go down to a shelter as you knew...

We Never Had Time To Be Young

When we went into town in the morning, Bristol city centre from Eastville to Knowle, Bedminster to the...

Bombing Memories

My grandfather, Sidney Obee, and my 2 aunts, Marj and Pat, lived at Church Street, Rochester, a couple of...

The Smoke Screen

We were the home of Vauxhall that produced Churchill tanks and Bedford lorries; Commer that also built army...

The London of a Sixteen Year Old (1941-2)

I was sixteen years of age, living with my mother in Maida-Vale London, my sister and brother had been...

Easter Tuesday 1941

My mother had placed a bucket of drinking-water at the side of the fireplace for fear that there would be a...

Bombers over Merseyside

Our house was bombed, the roof blew off, windows blew out, furniture was damaged, curtains hung in tatters...

The Landsdown Picture Palace

So we decided to switch from the Regent Cinema, which was at the top of the moor, and nipped into the...

Miracles Do Happen

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

My memories of growing up in Wolverhampton during the war

They were a type of German bomb ad they were very powerful. I used to stand on the cliffs in Devon and...

Waddington gets obliterated without killing anyone

However the job also involved being Civil Defence Officer for Waddington which was an important station for...

Great Mersey Street Bombing

My sister in Wales, her husband had heard about the Blitz, and came to Liverpool and took my sister and I...

First Air raid on Forth Bridge

Young as I was at the age of 6 with my brother Colin 9 and Roy 10, living with our parents in...

My Dock Road Drama

I think my most vivid recollection of the war was when I was accompanying my friend Adam Kevan who was a...

Ten Minutes to Pack

I was 9 when the First World War ended and my brother Alfred, of the Durham Light Infantry, was given the...

maureens tale as a child

I was 4 when the war started the first memory I have is standing in the garden looking up at the skylater...

DIY - An Indoor Shelter

Four massive wooden columns were erected floor to ceilingwhich were situated so that the space between them...

A Railwayman's Yarn - Christmas 1944

No engines in steam and nobody about, I walked into the Foreman's office and there was Albert Edward...

In Memory of Joey

One night during one of the heaviest raids on London, my next-door neighbour Joey Manning, who could only...

Messines Park, Londonderry is bombed

The battle of the Atlantic was co-ordinted from the port city but on the night the lnd mines dropped on...

Work fun n war

Work fun n war...

Coventry Blitz, 14th November 1940

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part two)

He came for them about 11.5 am Next siren sounded 1.30 pm All Clear 1.50 pm Am glad they arrived home...

My Father's Hazardous Contribution

The German bombers dropped high explosive, incendiary and butterfly bombs, also land mines which descended...

All in a night's work

In the event of an air raid, whilst staying in lodgings, the rail companys instructions were for employees...

The Plymouth Blitz

The town was a ghostly sight; Spooners, Dingles, Pophams, Yeos, George Street etc in ruins only iron...