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A Personal View of WW2

It was whilst living near Mutley Plain that Hyde Park School was badly damaged by bombing. My brother...

Wartime Childhood

Due to his business connections with Australia we received regular food parcels containing tinned bacon,...

MONDAY MORNING, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1940

Our family lived just off the New Kent Road, south of the River Thames. To get to work, I used to catch...

UXB

A bomb clipped a gable end and bounced through the window of the gannet where one of my Aunts slept. I...

Never Mind the Bombs What About My Ironing!

I lived with my Mum and little sister at 74, Kingsway in Cleethorpes during the war... We were soon to find...

We never got any medals

I will never forget the night a small bomb fell in the next door front garden and the crater was found when...

Harry Irving - Royal Marine Commando

I joined the Marine Commando's in 1944 and was posted to Commando Group HQ in the Defence Platoon. I...

Life went on as usual

My grandparents were visiting from Gateshead, and we had all gone for a walk on Clapham Common when the...

WW2 MEMORIES

One Sat.I finished work on a boat called the S.S.Glenmaroon and saw it cast off on it's last voyage as...

WW2 Memories

One Sat.I finished work on a boat called the S.S.Glenmaroon and saw it cast off on it's last voyage as...

We Thought Our House Was On Fire

I think the following incident took place in 1942 when my family, consisting of two Brothers, a Sister, my...

An Urchin in the Belfast Blitz

Sacred Heart Parochial Hall. Oh, it did indeed. Protestants were racing over from Ballyclare Street, the...

child in Urmston, Manchester

We therefore moved as a family to live in Urmston, Manchester. When the sirens went at night, as they...

The Morning After The Night Before

All during the bombardment of Sunderland the enemy planes were aiming for this line and although they...

My war in Hockley

They asked mom what the explosion had felt like and she told them it was like being hit on the back of...

When the Bombing Got Serious. The Blitz.

I was in our shelter with my family, in the garden of 64, English Street, Hull... The constant anti...

Some Lucky Escapes

At the height of the air-raids on Manchester, two bombs fell near our house, just far enough away to leave...

An Even Closer Call

The house we were in at this particular time was just off Albert Road, in the area between Albert Road...

Growing in the War

Those brave men chaperoned us over debris to the Gosford Green shelter wherer the RAF had barrage balloons,...

Memories as a child

MY MOST VIVID MEMORY by 1941,we were used to air-raids,the sound of the sirens,being hurried to the...

William’s War

Another incident of that period was the occasion when I decided to visit the Palace Cinema Dock Road...

Bombed out three times

They thought that their house would not be harmed as the bomb had not exploded and Irene nearly went back...

Bombing of the BSA factory in Birmingham

Once bombs fell on the school over the road from where my family and I lived in Birmingham — the ARPs...

Growing in the War 1

Those brave men chaperoned us over debris to the Gosford Green shelter wherer the RAF had barrage balloons,...

No Hiding Place

I'd been evacuated with all the employees of the aircraft factory where I worked, from London to...

The War to a Child of Cumbria

We lived in what was at that time a fairly remote part of England — West Cumbria — where...