She looked up and through the gloom was horrified to see a large black cross on the wing of a German...
There was an air-raid siren, my Aunt put the two daughters under the stairs, and my Uncle stayed in the...
On this particular night however, my mum remembers hearing a stick of bombs landing and getting nearer and...
Kenneth said that he often came across serving military personnel during his work who said that it was far...
While we were in the shelter an incendiary bomb was dropped on our house, it went through the roof, through...
My dad was 35 years old, there was a 19 year old on embarkation leave and the other man was a bus...
My father was the police inspector at Horsham, Sussex, during the war and we lived in a house opposite the...
My Grandfather was the head doorman at the Regents Palace Hotel in London... She told him that she was...
After that Joe wouldn't bake another bacon puddin for fear that it would be spoilt again by some...
One day a big house in Seaton was bombed and a lady was killed and some time later Fore Street was shot...
Our main preoccupation in the autumn of 1939 was putting up the black-out on all the windows of the...
A brick built communal shelter had been erected opposite our house-we used it for a time, but not for long...
And then the sirens would wake us all and I remember being picked up bundled downstairs into the garden and...
A Cold Cold Night. I stand here gazing into space with misty eyes and mind transfixed On a night in bygone...
Another memory is when a doodlebug hit the power cables in Rose Hill Park. Instead of breaking them, it...
My father and brother were the cellar and when they opened the door to the hall the whole area was in...
When I opened the door to the kitchen an Incendry bomb laid on the floor. I picked the bomb up and carried...
This was the time when Castle Street and Wine Street and surrounding areas such as the Bristol Castle were...
The planes followed the river Trent to go to Sheffield, Liverpool etc... All around the London Road area...
Well one night during the blackout he drove the ambulance to the hospital to pick up a dead body to the...
He assumed it to be an unexploded bomb of sorts,that may explode at any moment! tying a washing line around...
Myself and Roy Holland, who eventually became my husband, went to the Odeon in Plymouth to see a film...
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