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The War Years

Was parked,by our cross roads.Daisy Farm Road and Langstone Road Warstock He was give it, what for.Putting...

Bombing in The Avenue

The front of my aunts’ house was no more but my father found my two aunties and two cousinsjust...

Wartime Memories of Grantham

During the war my father was in charge of Grantham railway station... One day the bombs hit Kings Cross...

The War Years

Dad was standing at the lobby door... Mom to dad "YOUR NOT GOING OUT OF THIS HOUSE TO NIGHT" We...

Shelters in poets corner

When the sirens sounded to tell us the Germans were about we would pick up our bedding and hot water...

London Memories

The people opposite had a daughter and she had been sent home early from working at the bank, she went down...

An Odd Way to Escape The Blitz

My home was in South Manchester during World War Two, an area which seemed to be on the receiving end of...

Memories of the Manchester/Salford Blitz

My father wrapped my sister in a shawl we always kept handy, grabbed his jacket, mother and I put on our...

Barrage Balloons at Bay

It's a huge balloon, filled with carbon dioxide gas, that floated in the sky, designed to form a...

'Memories of My Journey in The Blitz', as told by Joan Doel nee Sarjantson

Having just qualified as a teacher in 1940, I was sent to care for children who had been evacuated to...

Life Under the Bombs in Cardiff

There were unexploded bombs in Queen Street, one of the main central shopping streets of Cardiff. After the...

Fletchers' Luck

When I was a two-year-old living in Maidstone in 1940 at the time of the Battle of Britain my father was an...

'Decorated' as a wartime kid

At a time when the Luftwaffe were approaching I was carrying a loaf and ignored the air-raid shelter at the...

The night Manchester belew up

The attack happened in manchester and Dorothy lives in lancester which is 4 miles out of manchester, bombs...

Shrapnel from the sky

I can clearly remember doodle bugs, air raid shelter experiences, shrapnel falling from the sky, machine...

Ward and Goldstone Air Raid Shelter

My family lived near Ward and Goldstone factory on Fredrick Road... He took my parents and sister to the...

Keeping spirits up through the Blitz in Hackney

Elsie preferred to live with friends for a while and then go back to her family home in Pownall Road rather...

May Blitz in Bootle

Auntie Olwyn and mum started to worry when Uncle Tommy, a fireman, didn't come home... My Uncle Tommy...

Bombs from the Sky

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

The Blitz and Shelters

While we were living in Barking we had an Anderson shelter in our back garden and often had to go into this...

Broken Glass

We lived two streets away from the Boulevard, but the land mine that fell causing so much damage and...

The bombing starts

Aircraft would just seem to get louder and louder as they increased their bombing runs, this of course was...

Mill Work in Droylsden

I was called up at 18, but was exempt because the factory was making towels for the navy and the army. I...

Fred Hart

The house I lived in was hit by an incendiary bomb and one of the bedrooms was burnt out, and an unexploded...

growing up in wartime luton

We lived in a nice quiet road in Luton, and dad had a job at the huge Vauxhall car plant... Dad's...

Sinking of H.M.S. St. George.

The Germans had bombed Looe Island claiming they had sunk the H.M.S. St. George. Dad continued to be a...