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Memories of Eileen Winterhalder

I lived in Old George Street with my Mum and Dad and sisters. I shared a room with my sister and her...

Childhood Memories of the Coventry Blitz as told by Janis Leedam nee Harnott

They had climbed over the smouldering centre of the city of Coventry and then walked the five miles to...

World War Two Memories - Rita Din

My Grandfather every day worked for the railway then later on in the evenings would sometimes help out with...

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT PUTNEY

Dad grabbed hold of Joyce and I and shouted to mum, who was holding Betty, to get under the wooden table in...

delivery of the Anderson Air Raid steel shelters.

Memories of the War in Moss Side

I used to be on the stage when I was younger, as a chorus girl and I got in on the Christmas...

Childhood Experience

We were lucky that at times when the raids were at their worst we would go toa house that she had at...

A Lucky Escape

During the war I was the manageress of W.H. Smiths in St Ives, Cornwall... The planes went on to machine...

German Air Raids Twice Nightly

On the night we were bombed out the sirens first went at ten minutes past seven in the evening, the raid...

Clydebank Blitz

We could even see a glow in the sky to the West of Glasgow and we also knew the shipbuiling industry was...

Air Raid Memories Near Christmas Time in Bootle

I was living with my parents Margaret and Daniel Whelan and brothers Danny and Patrick at 21 Akenside...

Heavy Bombardment September 1940

Me, my mum and my dad were sitting in the living room, mum was doing her knitting, dad was reading the...

A war child

One of my uncles was out in North Africa in the 8th Army with Mountgommery. And my other two uncles were in...

The Great Fire of Oxford Street

My father reluctantly agreed and we went out across Oxford Circus to the area of Oxford Street where the...

my war memories

my war memories...

The Tar Guard

My father's extra job was as a firewatcher and had to work evenings and nights to look out for fires...

Air raid experience

I was at an isolation hospital in Leicester and the matron decided that the people on day duty would sleep...

The first civilian to die?

The mystery was why a German plane should have dropped a bomb in this location at this time, risking a...

An interrupted weekend

My mother wrapped up the Sunday jo9int, a half shoulder of lamb, very precious as the weekly meat ration...

Dad's Priorities

One evening we were relaxing in the front room and my father was preparing to listen to Winston...

The Coventry Blitz

On the night of the worst air raid that Coventry ever suffered, my father called to my mother, sister and...

A Toddlers Memories

Not again", and scrambling into his overcoat,balaclava helmet, and tin hat.I remember my mum grabbing...

Devastation at Hayward Avenue

The mine had fallen about three hundred yards from their house onto the ARP centre at York House in Cliffe...

CITY AT WAR (A POEM BY Mabel Anne Roberts)

George Street, Bedford Street, Spooner's and such, St Andrews and the Guildhall almost destroyed, When...

The 16 year old baby

Since there was not enough room for all of us, especially as my aunt was visiting, my parents went to the...

Sheffield Blitz

Just before Christmas 1940, the blitz on Sheffield that we had all been expecting finally happened. We...