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The Anderson shelter.

My dad was one of the first residents in Ashurst Road, Friern Barnet to put an Anderson shelter in the back...

Belfast Blitz

And my mum and my younger sister, my dad was great. The Air Raid warden place in our street was attached to...

Gwladys's Wartime Memories of Cardiff and the WRENS

With my elder sister I joined a First Aid Post and was taught basic First Aid, but on the night of the...

Bombings in Liverpool

We had to move into the mission on Christian Street, my mother was the caretaker, due to an unexploded...

OUR CHICKEN RUN!

We went in the front door and saw that a window from one of the lower front rooms was broken, and when...

My experience in the bomb blitz on Hull May 7th/8th 1941

Our house was situated at the entrance to King George Dock and opposite was an office building where two...

Coventry bombing

My home was in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, situated some 7 miles or so from Coventry which, that night...

The Shelter

I remember nights in the shelter when the siren blew because ‘the planes and bombs are coming’...

A trumatic time

My Dad said we should try to get a couple of hours sleep, my sister and I went to our bedroom only...

A trumatic time

My Dad said we should try to get a couple of hours sleep, my sister and I went to our bedroom only...

A trumatic time

My Dad said we should try to get a couple of hours sleep, my sister and I went to our bedroom only...

The One but Last V2

My mother had a draper's shop on the Commercial Road and my mother, father, an aunt, my younger sister...

Hagley Road West Air Crash 1940?

During the war in 1940/41 a ‘Barrage Balloon Site’ was established on fields adjacent to the...

A Near Miss In Filton

On this particular day my father had gone as usual to work at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, in Filton in...

Wartime Schooldays in Glasgow

We were lucky in that no damage was done by the raids on Glasgow to our neighbourhood but. looking back, I...

The Blitz

My Father was an AIR RAID WARDEN and during the blitz he was in a Concrete Re-inforced shelter along the...

One Night in the Norwich Blitz

Most of the factories in Norwich were making shoes for the forces so this was our war effort and whilst all...

The war in Coventry

The pattern was that Coventry was hit one night and Birmingham the next - though on occasions they...

A Night in the War 1941

The bomber pilots knew now that 96 Squadron Defiants and Hurricanes were patrolling above 14,000 feet and...

A trumatic time

My Dad said we should try to get a couple of hours sleep, my sister and I went to our bedroom only...

My Dad's War - Robert Frederick Pearce

He was Robert Frederick Pearce and had served in the Royal Engineers in Gallipoli and Palestine and Egypt...

Ivor Packer - Avonmouth Docks, Bristol

The port of Avonmouth is at the mouth of the river Avon as it joins the river Severn having flowed from the...

Life in Yardley, Birmingham

We were living in Yardley, Birmingham and my husband George was a free lance observer for planes and also...

Shelter from the bombs

Time spent in the cellars sheltering during the air raids was spent playing cards or community singing.The...

V1 Incident Carlton Road, Erith, Kent.

V1 Incident Carlton Road, Erith, Kent. At that time Erith was an Urban District Council and part of Kent,...

My Dad and the Unexploded Bomb!

My Dad and the Unexploded Bomb. As soon as we had all left the house, my Dad went back outside with a...