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Luftwaffe Bomb Munitions Train in Tongham...

On 3 September 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, and George, a Sub Ganger for Southern Railway and a...

London Bombings and Remembering Bobby

I was living in London in 1944 with my father, who only had one leg, my mother, my two sisters and my...

Battle of Britain and the night time Blitz

Bath Blitz Memories

His sources of information were MI6, Bletchley Park, crashed enemy aircraft, secret agents in enemy...

The war through a girls eyes

Living in Gibraltar, with dad, regular army officer, mum and brother Peter, aged years... The siren sounded...

Sheltered Accommodation

Re: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, WHICH I WOULD RATHER FORGET

We were just getting to bed when the klaxons in the huts sounded again and we were off on the two hundred...

A Wartime Memory by Joan Follet

Many, many incendiary bombs and High Explosive were dropped on the area roughly bounded by Fore Street,...

My Schoolboy War in Sunderland

Also in 1943 when another raid was in progress and we were sitting under the stairs everything seemed quiet...

AIR RAID

Flasks of tea, packets of sandwiches, prepared in advance... The older children sit on the concrete floor...

The Upper Holloway V2 and the Electric Cinema

Giesbach Rd and Grovedale Rd are two roads that run parallel to St Johns Way on its south side and hence...

Remebering Bristol

In September 1939 I started working for Ellams Duplicator Co. in offices on Bristol Bridge overlooking St....

War time stories of sheila mary kellaway (nee forde). Aged 6 at the time

Mum and dad met with the local war housing officer who advised them that it was safer if they were to move...

London when I was nineteen

At the start of the war I had been working in the clothing industry and was at Great Portland Street, in...

The all clear

As a child people`s deaths seemed unreal.George`s grandad was the only dead person I`d seen.Would all the...

Shelters and Bombing

It was proved in hindsight that these types of shelter provided little protection from bombs,shrapnel and...

Life in the Anderson Shelter - 1941

The Firs

I worked as a typist for the fourth anti-aircraft division at the 'Firs', Upton, Chester... The...

William (Bill) Cooper Remembers

My father, who was an air raid warden, was working that evening as a plumber's labourer at Kayser...

The all clear

As a child people`s deaths seemed unreal.George`s grandad was the only dead person I`d seen.Would all the...

The Blitzing of the Flower Estate

My father was a Sheffield Transport Tram Driver and when the air-raid shelter was issued he obtained two...

Early years of the Second World War

Mum used to put mats against the doors to stop the draught, but she got so cross when a mobile AA gun...

My experiences of the war

I was born on the 14th April 1937 in a village called Totton My father, Reginald, worked as the Yard...

WRAF Work With Barrage Balloons

At the age of 16 years, I remember being out with my mother and sister aged 9 years old, watching a film...

Wartime Recollections

One night after a very heavy bombing raid we learnt ‘through the grapevine’ that Liverpool was...

War Maverick

Aged 16 years My School boy hobby was flying model aircraft, unknown to my parents applied to join RAF 6...