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Shopping Trip

I was brought up in Poplar, London E14, which was then on top of the Docks. After that we had to go...

Thankgoodness For Aunties

We then moved to the outskirts of Plymouth to Higher Compton to our Aunt Lil's bungalow, but were not...

Marian's story about St Pauls by Joseph Star Year 7

THE NEXT DAY: the next day i told my mam what happened but she already new from gossip. then i asked if...

The Burning German Bomber lands in a Derby Lake

A Junkers bomber had shed its bomb load elsewhere in the Derby area; possibly Rolls Royce or the British...

Our home was bombed

I lived with my parents in a cottage at the rear of some shops in Goggeshall Road, almost opposite what was...

In The Shelters

Another incident regarding going to an air raid shelter was when my Mother and I were near to the town hall...

A V2 lands in Whitstable

Whitstable was in the flight path of the doodlebugs on their way to London. I was just passing the...

Bombs in Sequence

We lived in a rather long street -- Earlham Grove, adjacent to the main railway line from Liverpool St. to...

The Air Raid Shelter

Each avenue had a aid raid warden who ensured that all the families went down to the shelter when the siren...

Back-to-Back Memories

My mom, dad, sister and I lived in a back-to-back house in Charles Henry St. Highgate Birmingham. My sister...

WORST NIGHT OF MY LIFE

Most nights my Mother and I would not be alone in the Anderson Shelter, either the Air-Raid Wardens, Mr...

Rats as Big as Dogs and a Near-miss Raid in London are just two of Molly Carey鈥檚 Rich War-time Experiences.

Rats as Big as Dogs and a Near-miss Raid in London are just two of Molly Carey's Rich War-time...

Holy Water!

In the porch they kept a bucket of sand and several buckets of water, together with a stirrup pump... The...

Called Up at 18 1/2

However I was unsuitable for their work so was eventually sent to the BTH in Port St where I was put on...

Falmouth Docks Main Target of German Bombing.

The Maria Chandris was towed away from the burning wreckage of the other two ships to St. Mawes Creek and...

Summerfield Park, Ladywood ,Birmingham

My older sister Doreen and I heard that a delayed fuse bomb had landed in Selwyn Road at the top of the...

Schoolboys story

At the bottom end of Peel Park there is a lane that separates it from Lewis's Rec,. The said lane...

The Exchange Hotel and the Christmas bombing

I was just coming off duty when my brother arrived, asked me if I was "going home". I answered...

Hell's Corner

My husband, Alfred was an electrician, the government said he was too valuable to fight, they thought he...

Liverpool - 1939-1940

In Liverpool we used to go into an air-raid shelter in a commerial or technical college on Durning Road....

Living through Bombing Raids at Gillingham

Living through Bombing Raids at Gillingham...

Event During Air Raid

It was early in 1939 that a friend and I attended a demonstration of an incendiary bomb in a school...

Coventry blitz

I lived with my parents in Leamington Spa, about nine miles from the centre of Coventry. We could hear the...

Manchester Blitz

My sister worked at S&J Watts as a secretary... S&J watts' building survived, however the other...

Mr.Thirkell's Water

My mother,ever helpfull,ran into the house and got a bucket of water which she then put outside on the...

Any Old Iron and the Shelters

I can remember my mother getting her friend to come and lift the great big heavy gate from our garden in...