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Belfast blitz in the Ardoyne

And that's why there was an awful lot of place bombed up here in Ardoyne... I had a cousin, his wife...

After the Raid

One of my friends was grievously wounded, whilst another — a pleasant, helpful girl — left the...

Growing up during the war

On the night of the Manchester Blitz my mum and I were in the brick air raid shelter which we had in...

Edna Cole's Newhaven WW2 memories

We were on the way home when the air-raid siren went, so mum made us hurry, and we went along the back...

Gwynne H.Davies - Memories of Childhood (Blitz, Evacuation, Doodlebugs and Victory)

The next was hearing the German bomber coming overhead, my father shouting to my mother to get in the...

One Birkenhead Night

The park itself had, had all the iron railings removed to help the war effort, and wagons from the council...

First Aid Raid

I hurried to Martineau Street to catch my tram home to Perry Barr... Dad said "Hello Thor' what are...

Torpoint Cornwall

My uncles owned four tugboats that moored in the Tamer between Torpoint and Devonport... My Father, A N...

MY WAR

When the first bomb dropped on the "Spillers Flour mill" our customers naturally panicked and ran...

We had to leave Granny behind!

During a concentrated period of bombing and air raids over several cities — Swansea, Cardiff, Barry...

MRS GLADYS BRIMLEY'S STORY

The night of the blitz in Coventry, November 6th, my husband Bert who was a volunteer fireman, a builder by...

Aftermath of bombing in Liverpool

Mam, Dad and Nora. This is the number of my Book Book at the Post Office and the Co op 50171. and...

Hull. Memories of the Blitz

In 1941 we heard that London was being bombed every night, but as nothing seemed to be happening in Hull we...

A Walk In The Blitz--(December1941).

We were visiting grandparents in Hulme, finishing at Grandma and Grandad Pettener's in City Road, next...

Coventry Report and Control Centre

Coventry Civil Defence Report and Control Centre I was born 22-9-1927 and as a 14 or 15 year old I...

Liverpool Blitz

The war had not yet started, but it wasn't long before the bombs were falling fast and thick on...

Birmingham blitz

At about 10pm, everyone was in the house trying to take their minds off the sounds of the aircrafts, when...

Memories

I found a place midway between Birmingham and Bromsgrove. My wife and newborn baby I sent to Blackpool to...

Sheltering down the tube

So Dad came and took us all home again, there was a lull in the bombing and we moved to Kentish Town...

Living through the Blitz

When my husband was called up for the Army in 1940 I was on my own so I went to live with...

Easter Tuesday Night — 16th April, 1941

We lived on Alexander Park Avenue just right beside the D.E.M.S, which had been formerly a school and...

Sheltering Down the Tube

So Dad came and took us all home again, there was a lull in the bombing and we moved to Kentish Town...

A Memory of the Blitz

We were able to borrow a two wheeled handcart and my father, a sister (23), a cousin (18), myself (15) and...

Down in the Deep

Dad, Mum, and myself were given entrance cards assigning us to the Raleigh shelter with a tunnel section...

The night they bombed Cobden Street, Leicester : November 1940

In late 1940 we spent every night in our back yard shelter, as the sirens sounded almost nightly when the...

"THE STATUE"

Our Anderson shelter was set much deeper thean was usual, and had a wood and metal door: these improvements...