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The London Blitz

One day after the all-clear siren had gone off, she started home and had to pass one of the churches in...

Coventrated

The night it was bombed, my aunt and I were sleeping on a mattress in the cubby hold under the stairs where...

Busy Night.

On that evening I had to take a message to the Civil Defence Warden at the Broardmash Warden Post... Later...

Dad's reassurance in the bombing of Coventry

Dad picked us up and stood us on top of the shelter he said "the planes are gong over - it's not...

Anderson shelter in the back garden in Beaconsfield Road, Enfield

To build that Anderson shelter Dad and Uncle Phil dug a very large hole in the lawn and lined it with...

Dressing Gowns and Bowler Hats

The bombs started around 1940 and I can remember one occasion when in the middle of the night you could...

A Bomb at the Side of Our House

Dad was at the front of the house and saw the bomber and the bomb dropping... I recall us running down our...

Bombing Raid !!

As my gran made her way to the furthest corner of her staircase a bomb fell from above her in the room...

Bombed out

We lived in Landseer Street in Battersea and my mother took me for regular walks in Batersea Park......

'Bombs and machine guns hit Holderness Road.

'Bombs and machine guns hit Holderness Road....

One Sunny Day in London

I remember one day in particular during the advent of the flying bombs. That morning we slept under a...

Rackabombs Thompson

Returning from the pub , having partaken of a drink or two , they fell in with one Mr Thompson . As...

Welcome, Martin Berner...

When the war began I lived at 4 Arundel Avenue, Morden, Surey a semi detached house in a quiet suburban...

WW2 memories of Joyce Nation

One evening when my brother was at my Gran's house, which was about seven minutes away, the sirens...

Wednesday's bomb

On an otherwise quiet afternoon, shops closed on a midweek half day, a Heinkel was chased over the town by...

Parachute Bomb (Land Mine) Over Stanford-Le-Hope

Parachute BombOver Stanford-Le-Hope....

Sleeping Beauty

I was eleven years of age at the start of the war and lived with my Mum Norah, Dad Walter, sister Alma...

Mothering Day

My sister was combing my hair. My mother was unhurt, but very upset when she saw her crockery lying smashed...

Our Blitz

It took up about a quarter of the small back garden of our Victorian semi-detached house. Of course, the...

A near shave

Some of the younger adults among us agreed to share the chore of fire watching at the Plymouth family...

Canaries - The Great Escape

My father bred canaries and he kept them in the loft of the house. We all escaped unscathed, but all the...

MANCHESTER - MY MUM'S LONG WARTIME

My mum was in born in Rhyl in 1921... When the blitz came ot Manchester she had to walk form Higher Ardwick...

Picnic in the Air Raid Shelter

When the sirens went, we knew there were bombers coming over head to bomb factories near Manchester. When...

A Close Encounter

As a child I had to go out via the back door, so I decided to go down the back alleys which...

First raid I can remember

There was the all clear and just as we went in and up to go back to bed and the bomb on...

Our finest find

Sometime during June 1944 a doodlebug flew over our house very low and it crashed four roads away. As soon...