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Stories categorised in 'The Blitz'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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The day it rained cats and dogs.

I transpired that the bomb had hit the bakery and flour rather than snow was the cause of the shower, and...

Margaret Jepson's Memories of Barrage Balloon operations

Barrage balloons bring down an aircraft. Barrage balloons kept the aircraft too high to find their aim and...

Bombs hit Birmingham

I got to the office to find that an incendiary bomb had hit the roof in the night and set the place...

Ginger the Kitten

In 1944 when the Germans were firing V1 flying bombs, or Doodle Bugs at England, I was living in north...

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My Flying Bomb

I, of course, expected the bomb to land on the road almost where I stood. I had fallen to the pavement...

GOOD SLEEPERS

My husband was a fireman - he served all through the Coventry Blitz... Almost the last raid - in 1944 I...

The courageous people of Plymouth

In 1943 Plymouth was bombed on three consecutive nights, it always started at 9pm just in time for the...

Being Bombed

Living as we did then within a short distance of Northolt RAF airfield, people living in the area received...

The Night Cardiff was Bombed

I grew up in Cardiff and my earliest memory of those days was the night Cardiff was bombed in 1940 or...

Bombing of Coventry

I was living in Birmingham but I worked in Coventry when Coventry was heavily bombed by the Germans. My...

Liverpool Alight

The whole of the Liverpool waterfront from Seaforth right down to Dingle, a distance of seven to eight...

north strand bombing dublin ireland

north strand bombing dublin ireland...

Wartime Memories

Lottie Scrimshaw remembers which streets were bombed:-. There was a school bombed near Spellow Lane....

land mines in Birmingham

My Dad, Jim, was working as a sergeant in the home guard so my mother , Olive, and me went downstairs to...

Boots are all important

A parachute mine was dropped on the Alvis plant... With all hell going on round us he turned to me and said...

A toddler's air raid warning

I was lying on a mattress on the floor of the back bedroom of our house in S.E London... Dad picked me...

A Hazardous Paper Round

When we came out of the picture house, a huge ‘dog-fight’ was going on outside, with fighter...

My Narrow Escape

They stay with us for two months, during which time the bombing in London seemed to calm down... There was...

Air raid Precaution Warden and Rationing

I was an Air Raid Precaution warden looking after people and checking if they were OK after a raid....

Merseyside Blitz

The underground railway was out of action with several stations unusable, the ferries could not sail...

Schoolboy Memories

The tunnels ran under some houses, namely High Bank Side, Etchells St., Tatton St., and Fletcher St. I...

World War II Memories

Sometimes mom would let us make patterns with the lighted candle on the low ceiling, this we thought was...

The Regal Picture House Panic by Abigail Mitchell

It was a Tuesday evening, and I left my 2 year old daughter with my sister Margaret and my father, to go...

War Baby

I believe I was due to be born at the end of October, but Dad was moved almost immediately and Mum...

A Tale of Two Arthurs

His father was asked to dispose of a bomb at the Speke Aerodrome in Liverpool... The shovel hit the bomb...

air raid drill 1939

Cardiff and Swansea and others hit flat, The valleys escaped but we couldn't know that There is one...

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