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My Memories of the War by Roy Waude

During the Blitz, when I was around 7 years old, in an air raid, I, my parents and neighbours had to take...

A fortunate Accident.

The shelter had been sunk in the back garden of Number 3 Trojan Avenue, and even though my father had sunk...

A Helping Hand

Where we lived on the outskirts we were on a ridge over a valley where the Northern Aluminium Co. had a...

A Glasgow child of wartime

My father, having served his time there, was working in the John Brown shipyard as a "marker-off"....

WORLD WAR TWO

Although the Republic of Ireland had declared its neutrality during World War II, Belfast was part of the...

hold an indiarubber between your teeth

This was especially important because we lived in Urmston, a suburb of Manchester and close to the heavy...

London Heavy Rescue Service

Responding to a call from the local Civil Defence HeadQuarters, Alf's unit attended the devastation in...

GPO Telephonists in World War 2

I was a telephonist at the Southampton Central Exchange during the War, a reserved occupation in the PO...

Just two nights of bombs in Epsom

Wenesday night - Epsom was bombed, the other side of the town to us, 4 houses were knocked down, three...

A.F.Stoddard Carpet Factory

Standing on the roof of the Stoddard's Factory, Elderslie after his first day's work, Tim was...

Dodging bombs on 16th birthday

In those times they had sandbags tied around the lamposts鈥o I went to put a sandbag to put it ontop...

My wartime memories

One frightening incident was when our anti-aircraft guns shot down an enemy bomber, we could hear it...

War time memories of a teenager

During the May blitz, a land mine dropped on the corner of Chapel Avenue and the Walton Vale, destroying...

Coventry Blitz

These are the war-time memories of my mother, Mrs Gladys Hayes, nee Stone, formerly of 49, Newlyn Road,...

'Hull House Burnt Down by Barrage Balloon'

He was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary but the place was also bombed and so he was transported to Sutton...

Memories of the Blitz - Doug Sanderson

The 'Phoney War' was finally over when the bombing of many of our major towns and cities started...

First memories

The bombers were trying to drop their bombs on London; They had to fly across Kent to get to London......

Close Encounter

As I was going through the door I heard my Dad say 鈥淲e found the little Chinese girl in the...

My experience of evacuation

Another incident was in the Ritz Cinema in Grays, it is a bingo hall now. Living so near to the Thames we...

clydeside blitz

This, and the raid that followed is sometimes referred to as the Clydebank Blitz because the shibuilding...

The day we survived...by accident.

My sister flatly refused to go into a cold dark shelter, so we retreated to the cupboard under the stairs....

In the Shadow of Coventry Cathedral: 14 November 1940

I shared small lodgings with my older sister and we lived within earshot of Coventry Cathedral's bells...

A Night I Shall Never Forget

I Joined the Civil Defence in 1940 at the A.R.P.Control Centre which was house in the dungeons underneath...

War through the eyes of a teenager

I went to see if my brother was OK and he was rushing around his bedroom trying to find his trousers... In...

a childs war

When the bombing increased around 1941-1942, my brother and I often used to look out of our bedroom window...

A Cornish Ack Ack Girl

Because bombs were dropped at Perranwell, one outside my Grandmother's garden and a 500 pound bomb...