Bristol

Sitting on a Bomb

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

Delphine of the Dings War - The End

My father strung together some old rusty saucepan lids and as we danced and sang we shook them and kicked...

My memories of WWII

My Mother Isobel, would go and buy Ron's favourite and we would walk out to RAF Filton, the aeroplanes...

Margaret Nicholls, Part 1 - The bomb shelter

As my father had been in the trenches in France in the first World War, he and a friend dug an oblong...

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...

24 November 1940 - the First Great Blitz on Bristol

My father was in the A.R.P. at Avonmouth, about twelve miles away. Mother refused to go down into the...

Small Boy's View of World War Two: In Bristol

The crowning incident was an incendiary going into the garage and through the seat of an Austin 7 singeing...

Memories of a Young Teacher

The night before war was declared I was on the last ferry returning to Liverpool from New Brighton with...

Bristol Burning

When not at home he was billeted at Penpole a location near Shirehampton in Bristol... Incidentally she was...

Corsets to Parachutes

There was incendiary bombs dropped in the field opposite because Douglas' factory was in Hanham Rd, off...

Growing up in East Ham during the War

In 1940 a German bomber on his way to Bristol was attacked by the RAF, and then jettisoned his bombs which...

Watching the Clock Ticking Towards Six.....

The doctor was called and fortunately she wasn't badly hurt, but he said to my mother,"I would get...

When Dad's Van Took Off

Very soon we were to hear the distinctive intermittent engine sound of German aircraft overhead as they...

The Bristol Blitz: The Day That Changed My Life

I lived at 22 Hengrove Avenue, Knowle, Bristol with my Father Fredrick FRANCIS aged 39 years my Mother...

Gone But Not Forgotten

Then in March 1941, a German a bomb completely destroyed our home in Luckington Rd, Horfield, Bristol......

Going "home"

My parents, Alice and Percy Curtis, together with my sister, Sheila, and my grandparents, had fled the...

War Time Wedding

I lived in Speedwell and Gladys lived on Beaufort Road , Barton Hill which was only a street away from the...

My Memories as a Child in Bristol

One Sunday my mother was preparing cabbage for lunch and asked me to take the outter leaves outside to the...

Olive Cooke's Memories of War in Bristol

One other brother was a Naval Commando who survived the war but became mentally ill, i think as a result of...

Parents Suffered Too: A Wartime Tale from Bristol

We, the resident patients, were naturally discouraged by the necessary admission of bomb casualties,...

Birmingham Blitz - December 1940

I expect you have heard that Dad's place has been H.E.’d then burnt clean out — also Boots...

Evacuation No.2 From 1 Danes Place, Bow, London

I do not remember the earlier years of the War but my parents have told me that in late 1939 my mother,...

Keith and Fran Slade's War Time Childhood Experience

I was born in Fishponds in 1937, my father went off to London and repaired Bomb damage to properties we...

A Family's Experiences of an Air Raid on Bristol Aeroplane Company Works

It was the day of the big daylight raid on Bristol Aeroplane Company works at Filton about fifteen minutes...

Valarie Maggs - Her Childhood Memories

Dad was at Church, while Mum and I hid under the stairs of our home in Hotwells... Dad came home and...

Random Memories: A Child in Bristol

* I lived in Bristol and recall my parents taking my brother and myself up onto Bedminster Down to watch...