Air Raid Precautions

Volunteer

Early WW2 recollections of volunteering with a hint of ‘’whit`s in it fur me’’...

My Parents: Harry and Ivy Taylor

He was evacuated a few times and my parents told me heart-rending stories about borrowing cars and driving...

A Thoroughly Disabled War Or I was Britain’s Secret Weapon

Tall, hefty, loud of mouth, with the name typically of ‘Barker’, he was mustard to be on patrol...

ARP Heavy Rescue Squad

In 1939 my dad, Bert Feebery, was a carpenter working for Beckenham council, a leafy suburb on the...

My Own War

A Royal Air Force Balloon Barrage hangar was built alongside the Raynesway arterial road, and anti-aircraft...

Amateur Dramatics from the ARP Post.

From 1934 he was an Officer of Customs and Excise in London, working mostly from an office on Fulham...

Women's War Work

A short time later, we took part in an Active Defence Exercise, one dark morning at about 2 or 3 a.m. The...

Wartime Memories of an ARP in Reddish by Gladys Jackson (nee Fearnley)

Wartime Memories of an ARP in Reddish by Gladys Jackson. One night there was an air raid and the Ack Ack...

Aberdeen Memories

She lived with my grandparents, her brother and sister in a tenement style flat 3 or 4 stories up at 285...

Schoolboy Recollections of WW2

Approach the bomb on your stomach and lie flat while you counted up to 50 slowly — the Germans placed...

"A Sure Sign!": Memories of Hartlepool

In May of 1939, recalled Jane, a new submarine, the ‘Thetis’, sank during the sea trials in...

Memoirs of World War Two in the Coalville Area

Olive's sister, Betty Bowler volunteered to serve abroad. On VE day Olive was at Madam Thirlby's...

Mrs. Porfitt - Wartime in Birkby and Huddersfield

The other warden working in the Birkby area was Mr. Milner, a vet....

My life in Derbyshire during the war

The week after the war finished we took the train to Blackpool for a week. My husband was a coal miner and...

Some of my War Time Memories

Our local office was named post 0/4 and was situated in the Methodist chapel schoolroom on Park Street at...

Saving St. Paul's

With the then customary sandwich pack brought from home, I strolled off in the direction of St. Paul's...

Bridport, 1939

So we sat on our bicycles, we opened the windows of the house, and we heard Mr Chamberlain, in a very grave...

Blitz in Liverpool - Army Service in Wolverhampton

After six weeks we were taken in the army lorries - we had no idea where we were going and I ended...

Sheffield Blitz

It was a parachute bomb and it had exploded, badly damaging approximately 12 houses in a horseshoe shape in...

Air Raid Wardens

On the corner of this building was the remains of an office, which, after cleaning up was used by the...

Shrapnel: Doreen Richmond

One night there was an incendiary raid when the planes dropped hundreds of bombs all in one cluster: They...

The Smallest Firefighter

In Cologne he saw Hitler Youth marching and in the crypt of the Cathedral he saw people filling ammunition...

Joyce Mason, Air Road Warden - Billeting Officer

I was Chief Petty Officer, and was marching a squad of girls through the college, and a plane came down...

The Area Air Raid Wardens' Story

We used to read letters from civilians to soldiers and if they said anything like a bomb exploded on an...

A Vast Hoard

To return to the picture, the man in the middle with the white helmet was my father on the left is Sergeant...

Roger's Tale

The Peoples’ War Recollections of a Wartime Infant by Roger Lapwood. I now realize this was for the...