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The Blitz As Seen by a Child: In Sheffield

One of my Schoomates had been killed in their Anderson shelter while knitting.I only learned later how...

Build Your Own Air Raid Shelter

My father was in the local police and my sister worked for the Min.of Food at King's Hall in Stoke and...

Their war is my war

I remember her telling me about running down the streets from the strafing, enemy pilots using up spare...

Coventry Child in a Siren Suit

We livedin a suburb between two aircraft factories, Whitley and Baginton and spent many nights in the...

Bombs Gone

Then the first bomb burst onto a house almost directly opposite ours, which we found out later had caused...

Safe and sound in Central London

Then the whole school went to Hungerford,Berks and I was billeted with the Butchers of Co-operative and...

Duddeston Operations- Birmingham

Due to no bus and rail links to Hamstead Dad had to walk the 6 miles to and from the pit. One...

A Child's Memories of Wartime Liverpool: Sheltering from the Blitz

My Grandmother, a working class lady, had a china teapot of which she was very proud. Just as my...

Blitz on Southampton

While we sat watching the film an air raid had started, the Germans were bombing Southampton docks... But...

鈥淚f We're going to get Killed, I鈥檇 Rather We were all Killed Together.鈥�

When war broke out I lived in Worcester Park with Dad, Mum, brothers John, 19, and Ken, 10. Early August...

Fore Street Police Station in London

My great-grandfather Charles J Salmon was in the city of London police number 211A based at Fore Street...

The Blitz (Sheffield)

I was evacuated to my grandparents in Doncaster, with my cousin who also lived in Sheffield. I had two...

Tales of a Birmingham School-Girl

A beautiful moonlit night, the search lights were criss-crossing each other, the German planes high in the...

Surviving in the Shelters: The Baedecker Raid on Norwich 1942

I went with my brother and mother into the back yard, where our shelter was. Before we went into the...

My Grandad

My Grandad...

"Time Bomb"

As can be imagined, looking for a good time in a period of such pain and sadness as WWII the wedding guests...

Blitz on Norwich

Our water was cut off as the water mains were bombed and we had to go across to the allotments to get...

London Blitz 1940

Members of the staff were engaged in trying to put out the fires and George found himself at the top of the...

The Basement

We got our friend Claire, nighty Claire to go outside to wait for the MPs... The MPs walked up to the...

From Evacuation To Incendiary

Unknown to me the Germans had dropped a load of incendiary bombs all down our street... The next day I...

Little Children with Big Labels

I was a little girl when the first bombs started falling and I remember we used to hide under the stairs,...

Torpoint and Gorsen Street

They flew low over the Dockyard wall, passing immediately over our office. This time the attack came from...

Black Saturday

The Blitz had begun, I was nine years old with my mother, Mary Stout father, Bert Stout and brother...

A Night in the Blitz

The girl I was going home with had a little boy and as we went down Whitworth Street the sirens went again...

London in the Blitz

My mum, Polly Bates spent the whole of the war living in central London... The worst weapons to hit London...

Birmingham Blitz

That was when the Boy Clerks got together and formed what we called "Police Messengers". Equipped...