Air Raid Precautions

Henry's Heroism: The 1940's Blitz

When the night time came he donned his uniform to patrol the streets of Bootle, and many times helped to...

Memories of Wartime Life in London

During the incendary air raid over the City of London all the London boroughs sent their brigades into the...

My Hero: An Ambulance Driver during the Liverpool Blitz

He also helped to lite the bonfires on fields,which later became Skelmsdale,to try to fool the german...

Air Raids and Barrage Balloons in Derby

I decided to volunteer as an air raid warden, my aunt Florence James who lived on Brook Street, West End...

Dressmaking Lathe Operators

We listened to Neville Chamberlain announce at 11 o`clock — I have had no reply from Adolf Hitler so...

War Time Shopping in Orpington

The older people that I knew were born in the Victorian era about 1870, they, a lot of the people...

Schoolboy Cycle Messenger in Oxton, Birkenhead, 1940

I had still to reach my sixteenth birthday when the war started and had already enrolled in the ARP as a...

The Night Our House Was Bombed

Mum, dad and myself and my brother Les, 10 years and Mike 20 months, were buried in the rubble. Les and...

My Father on the Home Front

1942 There were planes flying over Warsop to bomb Sheffield... 1943 The first pick a back bomb to land in...

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...

Digging for Victory

As a young Cannock miner at the time of the First World War, he was considered by Lloyd George to be less...

Let the Fun Begin

Instead of the expected two showing ‘dash’ and Biggles ‘flair’ in a flurry of...

Getting it Wrong and the Shattered Shelter: An Aircraft Spotter in Bedford

One of the bombs landed in a scrapyard and another coal storage for a railway... The bomb that landed in...

Love at First Sight

In the Tithe barn in Tisbury dances with old time waltzes were the order of the day and Betty's card...

Childhood Memories of the Blitz in Belfast

While my dad was carrying out his ARP duty on the streets of Belfast he would encourage my mum to use the...

Air Raid Warden in London

Having been turned down for the forces on medical grounds I returned to work and became a voluntary...

War in a factory

One night I wsas on duty when there were air raids very close at hand but I was never there at a...

Margo's Memoirs (M.Blears)

My father was head of the ARP in the Queens Park district of the town and chief incident officer. All the...

War Reserve Police: My Dad

He continued to work both as a furrier and police officer in the Mayfair and Soho areas of London until...

Being an ARP Mascot

As a four year old, I often spent many hours with the ARP at Capland Street school in St. Marylebone. Early...

Wedding Night Doodlebugs, and Other Tales

I lived in Walthamstow and worked in a solicitor's in Cheapside in the East End....

Schoolboy Messenger in the ARP

Pupils came from Winterbourne and Watley's End, and I was one of these messengers....

Annie Hughe's War

During the war I lived in Shevington near Wigan and worked locally as a shorthand hand typist, I was later...

Saved by the ARP: Memories of the Norwich Blitz

I walked down the Back-of-the-Inns, turned right at "Mathes" the bakers shop, walked through the...

Bomb Damage in Birmingham

I remember the night the BSA factory was bombed....

Boy messenger: In Liverpool

Our base was Palladium cinema which was the ARP depot and when anyone needed an ambulance etc the police...