It's a late autumn evening and we are sitting at the fireside waiting for the sirens to inform us that...
The last bomb to fall on Swindon occurred in Drove Road, just above the junction of Cumberland Road, on the...
Grandad had been standing right in its path until just a few seconds before the bomb went off... Nan found...
I was aged ten when war was declared and lived in Seven Kings, Essex with my parents and sisters. Most...
I decided that I would get as far away as I could from the firework display and was finally found at The...
As several contributors have already mentioned, the Whitehall Cinema, and several other buildings in London...
The father saw the parachute catch up in a big oak near the house and he ran for the cupboard not realising...
One night a bomb came down on the Laundry itself killing two firemen who were on duty, these two men were...
Grandad had been standing right in its path until just a few seconds before the bomb went off... Nan found...
Thursday, 14th November 1940 began as usual, I went off to work, my mother about the house and shopping, my...
My sisters and I living in a large Victorian house, looking through the top bedroom window while incendary...
During the war after I left school, I worked in the Co-operative Managers office in Dulcie Road, in...
We were fairly lucky with Air-Raids until 1942 when Glasgow was visited on two consecutive nights when the...
It is wartime and February 9th was unforgettable, for we heard a plane flying very low... We went back to...
Things weren't easy as I had a Dad and Mum , a younger brother and sister, and also my grandmother....
Thursday, 14th November 1940 began as usual, I went off to work, my mother about the house and shopping, my...
One of the first things that comes to mind is the rationing of food and clothes etc. and then the delivery...
I went to work the next day and was told by colleagues that Chapel Street and Emma Place had been hit by...
By day, he was the Head Doorman at the Regent Palace Hotel in the west end of London. By night, he was...
In the late thirties I transferred from Junior School to the secondary stream - Crofton Park Central School...
In the Second World War he became an ARP Warden in Maryland Point, East London....
Recommended story
Story with photo
