Bristol

An Evacuee in Wartime Coventry

But I did miss my Mum and Dad and sisters. A week later, the police came with his mother and sister and...

How We Became Evacuees

Auntie made sure we were spotless by two o'clock, but we had to wait longer as Georgina and then Paddy...

Long Ago Not Far Away

About a quarter of an hour later after leaving home, 15a Morton Street Lawrence Hill, we walked across a...

A Collection of Memories by John Rawlings - Chapter 7

The Panda division was recently formed and, as I later discovered, was equipped with tanks of a new design...

A Child's Memories

We all enjoyed our time at Burnham but once it became obvious that the risk of bombing was over, we left...

Delphine of the Dings War - Filton Bombing and The Blitz

We squeezed in a double bed for Mum and Dad, a double bed for my Aunt and Uncle, two camp beds for...

Homeland Defence

In 1943 I was apprenticed to be an aircraft designer with The Bristol Aeroplane Co., at their Filton Works,...

It's Agony Ivy

I had no money, because every penny I possessed went to mum, but we had a lovely wedding... Mum was cooking...

Redcliffe Raids and Scarlet Fever

During that night the raid went on till midnight and my mother's sister lived in Bedminster and she...

Margaret Nicholls, Part 2 - The Bristol Bombings

When the German planes were bombing big towns in the Midlands they had to come over Bristol, so warnings...

Margaret Nicholls, Part 3 - Young Married Life

Well the week after the Bristol bombing raid I was to be married at St. Pauls Church... There was an...

‘5186379 - My Story’

From Bristol we went to Ludlow Shropshire, then out to France where I joined the fighting unit of the 5th...

My RAF Life - Chapter 4

Even though it was wartime and Germany was the common enemy, there was a Jewish organisation in Palestine...

What did you do in the RAF, Dad? Part 1

At the time, Bristol and Avonmouth were heavily bombed and once or twice a week a full squad of us,...

Dad's Journey,Mum's Loss: A Lifetime of Missing

Mum and Dad had only enjoyed eighteen months of marriage when war was declared, their son John only eleven...

The Night that Changed Our Lives.

Mum replied 'I've broken my ankle' so Dad took Jan and me over to the Nurses Home which was...

Wartime Memories

With scant ceremony I was bundled up and taken up to their current flat in Bristol: in Filton, near the...

Evacuation

We never had much money and mum gave me a two shilling piece and I remember standing at the side door...

Bristol Blitz

Just as we turned from Wine Street into Castle Street I asked Joyce my friend "Did you hear Lord...

A Bristol family's story

An incendiary bomb came through the roof of mums house landing on her parents bed, her father scooped up...

War & Evacuation (Clayhidon, Devon)

I can remember him taking my brother David and me down to the Bristol Bridge area one morning after one...

A Canadian Boy's Account

This boy was 11 when war was declared and its immediate effect on us kids was a rush of patriotism, God...

Ron's Reminiscences

However, in January 1943 I was finally given that precious document, the C.O.R. so hot foot off I went to...

Delphine of the Dings War - From Pillar to Post

Following the first Air Raid, my Aunty Win and Uncle Bert had come to stay with us as Aunty was too nervous...

Delphine of the Dings War - Spring to Summer 1942

We had remarked that, as a temporary measure, the buses that usually started from Carey's Lane and Old...

Bristol Boys at War

These old boys were in fact young boys aged 15 to about 17 and on some Saturdays some of these boys, of...