Air Raid Precautions

My Longest Night

Late in September and with no respite from the raids my mother and sister left London to stay with friends...

Memories of Nuneaton Childhood

The Wardens and other men used to stand outside until a bomb was head coming down, then they use to dash...

A Little Overtime Work

Ted on many occasions rode home with anti-aircraft shell splinters pinging off the pavements as he passed....

My Meeting with Colonel Montgomery Head of British Intelligence

After a while I realised that the officer that I had met was Colonel Montgomery, the head of British...

Escape from Domestic Service

There was all firemen's pipes across the road and one part of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital had all...

South Norfolk Air Raids

My home was at Pulham St. Mary which had been an airship base and still had one of the old airships hangers...

I was Just a Lad

Their older sister, auntie Hilda and uncle John Astley lived in Ashton, or Aeston as some of the old folks...

A Chance Meeting

On learning that my mother wasn't to happy where we were living, Aunt Nell mentioned to her that there...

Life After..... First ARP Duty

The incident was a Messerschmit 110 shot down and crashed into a row of farm cottages, only a mile or so...

A Local Hero

It is mentioned in these reports that you, with other Wardens, did magnificent work in connection with the...

Enemy Action over Baldock

I have seen pictures of a particularly nasty incident when a flying bomb hit a bus outside the old Adastral...

The war at home

The day it started, it was a Sunday, my mother went by car to Harrogate, with my young brother, to be safe...

Michael Daniels' War

I lived with my Mum and Dad in the village of Borough Green in Kent. Sitated some seven miles from West...

The War Years in Nottingham: Nightly Air Raids and the ARP

Like most houses our house had a cellar which Dad re-enforced with timber to provide a shelter from any...

Recollections

Uncle Fred was “bombed out” and Kathleen's family home had the windows blown out......

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz

Back home in the town by the river Mersey, my father, who was an ARP warden, had noted that the strongest...

The Police Auxilliary Messenger Service - The 'Pams'

Each of these posts were manned by Special Constables led by a Sergeant, and received merciless teasing...

Sitting on a Bomb

One of our messengers reported that there was an unexploded bomb in the sector for which, with another...

ARP Memories

Due to my age I had to enrole as in the “messenger service” but the training was virtually the...

My War Effort: Demonstrating Gas Masks, Aged Four

After work, daddy tramped the streets, knocking on every door in his patch, trying to persuade people to be...

Me as Backroom Boffin

At the outbreak of the War I was working at Croydon Aerodrome as a secretary in the Drawing Office for what...

A Miracle on Brittannia Row

Due to this fact he often had premonitions of what was to come so on this night he had told my mother...

A Merry Dance

My worst memory is of the night the Germans flew over Edinburgh to bomb Glasgow... One old fellow from one...

Memories from WW2 in Coggeshall

Many air raid shelters were built in Coggeshall where people ran to when the siren went off... Another bomb...

Memories of Parker, Pledger and Day

My brother George Percival Pledger was called up for the Militia. My husband Arthur Parker was sent out all...

Bombs and Blackout

I was working at the Supermarine factory in Woolston, Southampton, making parts for the Spitfires, when a...